“How the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Supports Electric Utilities, Regulators, Manufacturers and Integrators in 2014 to Ensure Electric Grid Reliability”. Also includes a look at 2014 SGIP activities and plans and an announcement of the 2014 Board of Directors.

1. SGIP eMeeting
12 December 2013
1:00 – 2:00pm ET

2. Host
Patrick J. Gannon
President and Executive Director,
SGIP

3. Agenda
• Opening Remarks
• Smart Grid Implementation
Methods Committee
• Inaugural Conference
• 2014 Initiatives
• Q & A
John McDonald
Don Von Dollen
Blaine Kohl
Patrick Gannon

4. Opening Remarks
John D. McDonald, P.E.
Chairman of the Board, SGIP
Director, Tech. Strategy & Policy Dev.
GE Digital Energy

5. Chairman’s Message
• Board of Directors Announcement
• 2013 Member Engagement
• 2014 Highlights

6. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
orchestrates the work
behind power grid
modernization

7. 2014 Board Directors ‐ Incoming
Director
Category
Richard Kornfeld,
Grid2Home Inc.
03: Consumers – Residential, Commercial &
Industrial
Tony Thomas, NRECA
07: Electric Utility Companies ‐ Rural Electric
Association
Mark Klerer, Qualcomm
11: IT Application Developers and Integrators
Chris Greer, NIST
15: Relevant Federal Government Agencies
Nick Wagner, NARUC
19: State & Local Regulators
Ed Eckert, Itron
At large
Erich W. Gunther, Enernex
At large
Vicky Pilletteri, NIST
Ex Officio, Smart Grid Cybersecurity Committee
Chair
Don von Dollen, EPRI
Ex Officio, Smart Grid Implementation Methods
Committee Chair
Dean Prochaska, NIST
Ex Officio, Smart Grid Testing & Certification
Committee Chair

8. Board Directors ‐ Continuing
Director
Category
Tariq Samad, Honeywell
02: Commercial & Industrial Equipment Manufacturers
& Automation Vendors
Doug McGinnis, Exelon
05: Electric Utility Companies – Investor Owned
Utilities & Publicly Owned Utilities & Federal/State
Power Authorities
Suresh Kotha, SMUD
06: Electric Utility Companies – Municipal Owned
Utilities
Dave Hardin, EnerNOC
08: Electricity and Financial Market Traders
Thomas Herbst,
Silver Spring Networks
10: Information & Communication Technologies
Infrastructure and Service Providers
Robby Simpson,
GE Digital Energy
12: Power Equipment Manufacturers & Vendors
Barry Haaser,
Lakeview Group
13: Professional Societies, User’s Groups, Trade
Associations & Industry Consortia
Steve Widergren, PNNL
14: R&D Organizations and Academia
John Nunneley,
SunSpec Alliance
16: Renewable Power Producers

9. Board Directors ‐ Continuing
Director
Category
Mark Smith,
Reliant Energy
17: Retail Service Providers
John Caskey, NEMA
18: Standards & Specification Development
Organizations
Rik Drummond, DGI
20: Testing and Certification Vendors
David Forfia, ERCOT
21: Transmission Operators & Independent System
Operators
Scott Ungerer,
Enertech Capital
22: Venture Capital
John McDonald,
GE Digital Energy
At large
Patrick Gannon, SGIP
Ex Officio, Executive Director
Chris Irwin, DOE
Ex Officio, DOE Representative
George Arnold, NIST
Ex Officio, NIST Representative
Ron Ambrosio, IBM
Ex Officio, Smart Grid Architecture Committee Chair

10. Thank you to Departing Directors
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Brian Markwalter
Mike Coop
Bob Saint
Bill Lawrence
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Brent Hodges
Lisa Kaiser
Bill Cloutier
Christine Wright

11. Strategic Goals
• Accelerate the realization of interoperability
benefits from harmonized standards and faster
integration of interoperable technologies
• Facilitate the core technical work by providing
thought leadership, a productive collaborative
workspace and management process
• Help stakeholders Navigate among the Smart Grid
Ecosystem processes and relationships
• Communicate with all Smart Grid Ecosystem
stakeholders on standards information and benefits
from interoperability

12. Member Engagement Feedback #1
• SGIP is the only entity where the entire splintered
Smart Grid ecosystem comes together
– SGIP has the opportunity to be a “strategic
organization” in the foundation of the Smart Grid
• SGIP is a unique influential organization working
with businesses, policy makers and regulators
• SGIP needs to be more focused on policy,
regulation, and business cases for implementation
• Provide visibility of SGIP in policy, regulation, and
business areas

13. Member Engagement Feedback #2
• Help us stay abreast in the Smart Grid market
– How does this standard impact the market? When?
– What influences the regulatory push?
– What’s going to make the standards impactful in the
market and to our customers?
– How can we get more business people involved
• Provide a “Timetable” of how the standards
impact our company
– customer demand, regulator mandate, utility needs
• We need the big picture view of interoperability in
the Smart Grid to grow the businesses and
markets

14. 2014 Highlights #1
• Smart Grid Cybersecurity Committee (SGCC)
– Collaborate with DOE, FERC, DHS, DoD and NIST to
develop a NIST Smart Grid Supply Chain Awareness
Guide
• Smart Grid Testing and Certification Committee
(SGTCC)
– Build a directory of all industry test programs relative
to Smart Grid standards
• Smart Grid Architecture Committee (SGAC)
– Launched Transactive Energy working party (Business
to Grid DEWG) ‐ near completion on its Transactive
Energy Retail Applications white paper

15. 2014 Highlights #2
• Distributed Renewables, Generation and Storage
DEWG (DRGS DEWG)
– Releasing Distributed Energy Resources (DER):
hierarchical classification of use cases and the process
for developing information exchange requirements and
object models
• Home to Grid (H2G) DEWG ongoing projects to
include focus on communications between utilities
and home devices
• Business to Grid (B2G) and Industry to Grid (I2G)
DEWGs to launch Priority Action Plan (PAP) on
Transactive Energy

16. SGIP Special Projects & Deliverables
• Interoperability Implementation Experiences (IIE)
– List of implemented Smart Grid applications
– Identifying key standards implemented
• Interoperability Mapping Tool (IMT)
– Port, customize and operate an interactive, online tool
– Include SGIP’s CoS, plus work of the DEWGs and PAPs
• Business Impact of Standards Analysis Services
– Develop and apply a methodology to assess business
impact
– Calculate benefits and costs of interoperability experiences
• Educational & Informational Services
– Based on the results derived from IIE and IMT programs
– Identify the most relevant “vectors of influence”

17. “How the Smart Grid
Interoperability Panel
Supports Electric Utilities,
Regulators, Manufacturers
and Integrators in 2014 to
Ensure Electric Grid
Reliability”

18. Guest Speaker
Don Von Dollen
SGIMC Chair
EPRI, Sr Program Manager,
Data Integration & Communications

19. Don Von Dollen
dvondoll@epri.com

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Interoperability in Practice
◦ Implementation of standards
 Lessons learned and best practices
 Business case
 Barriers and challenges
◦ Implementer Community
 Forum for implementers to share
experiences
◦ Feedback loop
 Pass along issues to DEWGS, Technical Committee, SDOs,
User’s Groups and Alliances

21. 
Interoperability Implementation Experiences
(IIE) Project
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Standards Mapping Tool

22. 
Develop a series of case
studies on the
implementation of standards
◦ Focus on Catalog of Standards
entries
◦ Engage the implementers
 Utilities, RTO / ISO, suppliers,
consultants, service providers,
alliances, etc.

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Value to Members
◦ Pass along lessons learned to
other companies that might
be interested in
implementing a standard
◦ Go into an implementation
with a solid understanding of
what to expect

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Motivation / Business Case
Technology Availability / Maturity
Integration with the Existing Infrastructure
Impact on the Organization
Third Party Impacts
Reliability and Security Impacts
Implementation Experience
Operation Experience
Recommendations for Follow‐on Work

25. 
For each case study:
◦ A webcast presentation by the implementer
 Recorded and posted on SGIP website
◦ A concise paper
 Posted on SGIP website
◦ Both will follow the template
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Would like to do 6‐8 case studies in 2014
Follow up Activities
◦ Consider forming a working group of implementers of the
standard to align on gaps and recommendations
◦ Could lead to the creation of a PAP

26. 1. Integration of distributed generation
2. IEC 61850
3. CIM (IEC 61970 / 61968)
4. Demand response (Open ADR)
5. Electric transportation
6. Green Button
7. Smart Energy Profile 2.0
8. AMI
9. Distribution automation
10. Synchrophasors (PMU)
11. Transactive energy

27. 
Cautions
◦ Want to remain neutral on specific vendors
and consultants
◦ The cases studies will be most effective if the
implementers are open and candid about their
experience

28. 
Underway
◦ Developing a case study template
◦ Developing the first case study – quickly
 Refine the process and the output
 DTE Energy implementation of CIM at the Enterprise
Service Bus

29. 
Next Steps
◦ Create the case study pipeline
 Identify implementers that want to help develop a case
study
 Contractor to conduct interviews to develop the case
study document and help with the presentation

30. 
Interactive Software Platform
◦ Represents the entire smart grid value chain with a set of
interconnected nodes
◦ Each node is a “layered” data base with a pull‐down menu
having existing standards pop‐up at smart grid nodes, along
with access to selected "use cases“

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Plan is to “tailor” the tool for the IMC by expanding
the “layered” nodal data base to include:
◦ SGIP Catalog of Standards (CoS) items
◦ Implementation “case studies” to be produced by the IMC's
IIE project in the form of standardized IMC templates
◦ The work of the DEWGs and PAPs at relevant nodes
◦ We expect that the IMC will identify other SGIP‐related
applications that the mapping tool can support, e.g.,
document management

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Value to Members
◦ Provides easier access to SGIP information
◦ Puts the information into the context of the power grid
◦ Identifies relationships
between standards

33. Welcome, meeting purpose and approach
Don Von Dollen
PRESENTATION: Reducing the Distance to Integrate:
CIM at the Enterprise Service Bus
Kelly Flowers,
DTE Energy
Discussion on Interoperability Implementation
Experience (IIE) Case Study Template
Don Von Dollen
Erich Gunther
Review of IIE Case Study Pipeline
Don Von Dollen
Update on Standards Mapping Tool
Dom Geraghty
IMC Meeting Calendar for 2014
Don Von Dollen

34. Don Von Dollen
dvondoll@epri.com

35. Inaugural Conference
Recap
Blaine Kohl
Director Marketing & Membership
SGIP

36. Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
More details at http://sgip.org/sgip-inaugural-conference-2/
30 Second Video Recap

37. Hot Topics
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Microgrids
Transactive Energy
Cybersecurity
Advanced Metering
Infrastructure and
Outage Management
Systems
• Business perspectives
• Utility perspectives for
building resiliency
• Manufacturer perspectives
• Sensors, data and Internet
of Things
• International perspectives
• Green button

38. Stakeholder Networking
Lisa Polak Edgar
Thomas Gross
Philip Q Hanser
Hank Kenchington
NARUC
Eaton
The Brattle Group
Department of Energy
Hiroshi Kuniyoshi
John Norris
NEDO; JSCA
FERC
Leocadia Zak
USTDA

39. 2014
2 Members’ Only Meetings
1 Combo Members’ Meeting + Conference
Details coming soon

40. SGIP
Strategic Services
Patrick J. Gannon

41. SGIP Special Projects & Deliverables
• Business Impact of Standards Analysis Services
– Develop and apply a methodology to assess business
impact
– Calculate benefits and costs of interoperability experiences
– Map the benefits to utility operational functions
• Educational & Informational Services
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Based on the results derived from IIE and IMT programs
Assist Members in preparing specific benefits roadmaps
Identify the most relevant “vectors of influence”
Produce reports that help members in project planning
and product deployment based on standards for
interoperability

42. Defining Vectors of Influence
• Vector: a measurement that has magnitude and
direction
• Influence: the power to cause changes without
directly forcing them to happen
• SGIP Vectors of Influence:
– Identifies the size or extent of the impact of a given
standard
– Determines the factors that influence the timing and
direction of a given standard
– Identifies any barriers to implementation and what
business functions could be impacted by the standard

43. SGIP Vectors of Influence
Who & what
are the key
drivers?
What is the size and extent
of the impacts of a standard
on business operations?
What is the direction and
timing of the standard for
implementation?
What are the potential
barriers to implement
the standard?
What is
impacted by
the standard?

44. SGIP 2014 Special Projects Plan
• Complete several Interoperability Implementation
Experience reports
• Begin adding SGIP Layers to the Interoperability
Mapping Tool
• Write Vectors of Influence reports
– Based on SGIP Catalog of Standards entries
• Develop Educational and Informational Services
– Select several SGIP Members for pilot project to begin
developing specific benefits roadmaps
– Produce example reports and get Member feedback on
how they can be used in project planning and deployment

45. Question & Answers