0:00:13 | well thank you very much of the organisers for inviting me to this and a of your interest in |
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0:00:19 | this smart red |
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0:00:21 | i from the national institute of standards and technology in the united states |
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0:00:24 | and i wanna talk about some of the |
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0:00:27 | uh |
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0:00:27 | aspects of this smart read from my organisational set |
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0:00:32 | there are a lot of different pieces that need to be put in place for the smart grid work we |
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0:00:36 | just heard some about some of the economic considerations of but |
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0:00:40 | but there is huge this is a huge working infrastructure structure |
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0:00:43 | and as such it as many different components and pieces and i of describe some parts of the standards yeah |
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0:00:49 | and the measurements to support a smart |
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0:00:52 | a general of already heard some introduction towards the economics of this smart grid |
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0:00:58 | more generally the smart grid is a modernisation of the electorate |
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0:01:03 | and what we're doing is |
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0:01:04 | pointing in advanced communications |
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0:01:07 | in this traditional infrastructure |
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0:01:09 | and where to enable some of these uh benefit some of which were described in the previous time |
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0:01:15 | more generally were looking for two way flow of electricity and information |
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0:01:20 | with a more resilient |
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0:01:21 | system |
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0:01:24 | part of this is that since it is such a large system involves so many different players |
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0:01:29 | all of the different parts the system need to know |
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0:01:32 | what the communication protocols are what the schemes are the economics schemes the expected behaviours within this very large system |
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0:01:41 | as such |
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0:01:42 | standards and the one point to standards here talking about document terry standards form a a strong for of what |
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0:01:48 | is needed |
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0:01:49 | for |
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0:01:50 | the smart |
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0:01:53 | so this is a brief introduction i'm gonna focus most my talk an accelerating smart grid standards and then get |
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0:01:58 | to some of the measurements that we're doing to support this |
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0:02:01 | right |
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0:02:03 | you're a few things about the north american red |
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0:02:06 | uh i in L sense i don't want to go into detail here but |
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0:02:10 | the important part is that it's a very complicated system |
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0:02:13 | and it's not just complicated from a technology point of view it's also complicated from a political and regulatory point |
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0:02:19 | of |
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0:02:20 | there many different electric utilities |
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0:02:23 | some are investor around utilities some are world clock were two |
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0:02:27 | so there is a whole host |
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0:02:29 | of size |
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0:02:30 | scales capabilities within the system |
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0:02:33 | there are in the us there's many different states worldwide there are many different regulatory agencies that govern |
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0:02:39 | uh lectures city uh a a a generation use |
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0:02:44 | the other thing to point out from an economics to follow on the economics point of view is that |
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0:02:49 | we have a a very large capital intensive |
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0:02:52 | industry |
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0:02:54 | where there is investment in generating capacity and transmission |
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0:02:59 | that is |
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0:03:00 | scaled to meet the P the me |
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0:03:03 | so basically you are paying for a lot of infrastructure |
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0:03:06 | all the time |
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0:03:08 | even when the load on the system is much lower |
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0:03:12 | we can be more efficient and i really drives some price uh uh benefits |
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0:03:18 | if are able to operate closer to those march |
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0:03:22 | with the need to move to renewable energy |
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0:03:25 | we're gonna need to have a system that's is able to respond quicker when we and turns on and off |
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0:03:30 | once solar is available and it's not |
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0:03:32 | all of the use things will lead us work |
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0:03:34 | closer to that a peak |
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0:03:36 | a T |
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0:03:37 | and hopefully do it in such a way that will be able to |
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0:03:41 | reap the benefits without having to do a whole extra load of and my |
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0:03:47 | on the other hand the entire system needs modernisation so this is |
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0:03:51 | a system that is going to have investment anyway |
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0:03:54 | there is a a huge you trillions of dollars worth of investment that's needed both and us and role |
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0:04:01 | in the U S are the smart grid is a a a us national priority uh we have the support |
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0:04:06 | of all of the upper level politicians |
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0:04:08 | and and also the U S |
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0:04:10 | energy policy is starts from the energy independence and security act which gave nist my institution a actually role |
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0:04:18 | of already talked a lot about some of the drivers i'm gonna skip of this as well as this this |
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0:04:23 | just kind of shows the level of variability of when this is what we have to be able to have |
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0:04:27 | the communications and place to help again |
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0:04:31 | we also the previous speaker much electric vehicles |
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0:04:34 | electric vehicles can both be a positive or a negative |
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0:04:37 | there |
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0:04:38 | potentially good for |
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0:04:39 | the environment |
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0:04:41 | however if people come home and at the end of the day all choose to charge their electric vehicles at |
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0:04:47 | the same time |
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0:04:49 | this of actually add to the peak demand and and make things were |
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0:04:53 | if through communications we can get people to charge in the middle of the night |
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0:04:58 | then it averages out the overall load and makes things better |
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0:05:04 | this points out like communications and so port |
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0:05:06 | without communication you'll probably end up with this |
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0:05:09 | with a communications and control of the charging a one |
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0:05:12 | have a much better stay |
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0:05:15 | to give an example the complexity of standards just looking at the electric vehicle application |
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0:05:20 | these are some of the standards there needed |
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0:05:23 | for and and and |
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0:05:26 | interoperability solution |
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0:05:28 | we have electric vehicles |
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0:05:30 | so you have everything from the details of the standards that govern the electric vehicles |
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0:05:35 | the details of the standards the cover how the utilities organise their space |
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0:05:39 | standards in the us S uh for for for me are slightly different then then you're up which relies an |
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0:05:44 | I E C standard |
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0:05:46 | airs also safety applications the work about and then there's communication |
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0:05:50 | there's a whole host of various standards that need to work together |
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0:05:54 | and that's the hard part here is that all these standard organisations |
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0:05:57 | have traditionally worked around their own little part of the problem |
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0:06:02 | the trick is to get them to coordinate and work across the boundaries with each other to create the and |
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0:06:08 | and application |
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0:06:10 | that's for we um an for the national to the standards and technology so we are a non regulatory agency |
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0:06:15 | in the nine states department of commerce |
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0:06:18 | we were quite closely with industry academia and government |
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0:06:21 | in in this particular case we have a role both of the standards as well as the measurements to support |
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0:06:26 | smart |
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0:06:28 | the are a key aspect of the U S policy |
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0:06:31 | this particular act is what gives |
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0:06:34 | the instructions to the us government to look to the private sector first |
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0:06:39 | for how we set stand |
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0:06:41 | this is an aspect where we're different than the european |
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0:06:44 | uh way of doing things as well as others are the world |
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0:06:47 | we were much more on the private sector and a whole host of standards about one organisations instead of pushing |
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0:06:53 | things through and dates to the standards organisation |
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0:06:57 | it also direct the federal government to purchase to pay and they are the possibilities uh and and the technical |
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0:07:03 | committees for example of over four hundred of the staff at my institution |
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0:07:07 | or involved at technical committees working on standards one sort or another |
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0:07:12 | in addition it direct my institution to coordinate the federal government's use of state |
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0:07:18 | so the federal government can be a driver for these standards |
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0:07:22 | were to look to the private sector first |
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0:07:26 | and that is exactly what was uh uh called out you know much more visible role within this energy independence |
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0:07:32 | and security act which is kind of the underlying |
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0:07:34 | smart grid a policy fitting i states |
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0:07:38 | it gave us the role of |
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0:07:39 | who mating the development of a framework |
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0:07:42 | to achieve interoperability of smart grid systems and device |
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0:07:46 | so in essence that's are |
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0:07:48 | charge |
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0:07:48 | coordinate make development means that we're not working in a vacuum of working with others |
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0:07:53 | framework means that we have to imagine how this whole system is going to work together and look at all |
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0:07:58 | the different parts of it |
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0:08:00 | and we also need to make sure that these standards are |
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0:08:03 | flexible uniform and technology needs |
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0:08:08 | if you look in the investment this made in the smart grid is pretty substantial |
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0:08:11 | recently the department of energy put in three point four billion |
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0:08:15 | in as well as that's as a matched by by industry in this process |
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0:08:20 | so it's a rather large investment in smart grid across the us similar investments are being made across the world |
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0:08:27 | if you look at united states walls |
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0:08:29 | in |
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0:08:30 | smart red |
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0:08:31 | were here were working on the thing enters piece of it but lead agency in the U as department of |
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0:08:35 | energy |
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0:08:37 | but a similar to most you know agencies around the world there are a whole host of players everyone from |
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0:08:42 | the communications side the regulators enter |
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0:08:46 | i of energy |
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0:08:47 | all have to work together |
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0:08:49 | and in addition you have regulation that occurs at the state level |
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0:08:53 | that men at the most of the important regulation for the details of the distribution system a at the state |
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0:08:58 | model |
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0:08:59 | so all of these folks need to work well together and four |
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0:09:04 | what we did when we receive this responsibility was that we set up a a rather large are for to |
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0:09:10 | help to organise the community |
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0:09:13 | the important part here was that we had a traditional industry the power industry which |
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0:09:18 | had yeah interacted as much as it should of with the I T for |
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0:09:22 | with the communications folks with all the other parts of the smart |
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0:09:27 | and it was |
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0:09:27 | or ability to in essence act as a convener or and have a series of workshops and get all of |
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0:09:33 | the different standards about organisations and different engineers and scientists interest in this problem |
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0:09:39 | altogether together |
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0:09:40 | to talk three what that needs were |
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0:09:42 | and you help develop an initial roadmap map for where we needed to go |
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0:09:48 | in addition we realise that you know nist doing a lot of the heavy lifting at this first stage |
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0:09:52 | was it going to be sufficient we really needed a process that we hearing on for were you know more |
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0:09:58 | uh |
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0:09:59 | consistent way over time |
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0:10:02 | so we set up a smart grid interoperability panel which consist of over six hundred and fifty organisations |
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0:10:09 | that have a role to play in the smart |
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0:10:12 | and we also realise that standards a weren't sufficient you also needed in the end to have testing and certification |
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0:10:18 | to be able to |
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0:10:19 | i and sure that the other the products that were coming out will eventually meet what that the uh this |
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0:10:24 | this the state to perform |
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0:10:28 | and and show polish develop this road map and framework |
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0:10:33 | i'll make a a a a no here this particular website |
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0:10:36 | all of the stuff that we have done is in the public domain and it's available for anyone's use |
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0:10:42 | so this get you access not knowing to everything that nist is done but also the smart grid interoperability panel |
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0:10:48 | and all of this is available for use by ieee and others in various parts of the community of picked |
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0:10:55 | up the frame in its elements |
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0:10:57 | and are further developing thing |
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0:11:00 | so we set out a a smart grid vision and model we identify key standard |
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0:11:05 | it wasn't enough to figure out what the standards were it was also important to figure out where the problems |
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0:11:10 | were and then make progress to meet those needs |
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0:11:13 | so we put together priority action plans which were targeted efforts up an involving more than one standard about an |
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0:11:19 | organisation to solve a a |
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0:11:21 | standards yeah |
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0:11:23 | in addition cyber security was exceptionally important for this whole process with that a whole working group on it which |
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0:11:29 | is developed a guidelines |
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0:11:31 | and we're currently working on a revision to this frame |
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0:11:34 | so this of the frame mark that you'll see if you go to the website |
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0:11:38 | there's also this work |
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0:11:40 | in a release to revision which is also available for people to look at with the smart grid interoperability |
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0:11:48 | but upper level point of view |
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0:11:50 | this kind of describes the entire smart mark you of the traditional our system |
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0:11:54 | that needs to have a communications which are shown in blue with all of these different actors |
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0:11:59 | so this kind help to set the |
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0:12:03 | who needs to talk with home |
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0:12:05 | and then from those communication you can figure out what are the protocols that are needed to support smart grid |
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0:12:11 | communication |
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0:12:12 | it a listing of all of the priority action plans that we have the target specific names |
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0:12:18 | as should point out that were |
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0:12:20 | i uh uh a lying on international standards for us an essence the entire world is moving to use mark |
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0:12:27 | reds and the various companies want to sell to a global market |
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0:12:31 | relying on international standards helps that globalisation |
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0:12:34 | and and supports the uh the ability of all of the different regions of the world to develop their smart |
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0:12:41 | there's a little bit more about the smart grid interoperability panel |
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0:12:44 | a the important part |
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0:12:46 | here to notice is that |
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0:12:47 | uh we're doing |
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0:12:49 | a lot of requirements |
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0:12:50 | and working with the stairs but one organisations so the actual sting enters of developed in the C a development |
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0:12:56 | organisation such as ieee and i E C and others |
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0:13:00 | we're helping to organise what goes into that and target them and try to accelerate prague |
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0:13:06 | we also do a lot with but web based participation is living get were wide participation |
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0:13:11 | we do a lot through tell a conferences and web meeting |
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0:13:14 | uh this is an international group we have a large uh international participation from various countries and the world such |
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0:13:21 | as japan korea |
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0:13:22 | state read from china |
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0:13:24 | all of this stairs but one organisations we have a very strong international component to the stuff |
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0:13:30 | here are some of the stakeholder categories this is how will organised to this particular entity and this kind of |
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0:13:36 | points out what i was saying all of the different types of entities that have a role to play in |
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0:13:41 | the smart red |
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0:13:42 | we're providing of forum for them all to get together and discuss the hard issue |
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0:13:47 | here's the organisation it's a structured group that has both standing committees as well as particular priority action |
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0:13:54 | teams |
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0:13:55 | and as domain expert working groups and a has some functions to help to prove its operation |
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0:14:00 | putting import we there's a governing board |
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0:14:03 | that is selected from these different categories that hops over oversee the entire process of this market not ability |
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0:14:10 | this is where a lot of the decisions are are my |
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0:14:14 | here some of the key committee |
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0:14:17 | here or some of the efforts that we've have that have been confirmed completed by the governing board so of |
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0:14:22 | make great progress over last couple years |
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0:14:26 | here's one in particular energy usage information so if you look at |
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0:14:30 | issues that are facing the consumer |
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0:14:33 | the consumer wants to have more information about their energy use and then be able to |
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0:14:38 | uh use that energy used to change their behaviour |
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0:14:43 | we need to put in place some rough structures on the energy usage to try to have consistency across process |
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0:14:49 | system there's a lot of different applications that we use energy usage information |
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0:14:54 | and this helps to |
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0:14:55 | develop a standard which is already done now with the north american energy standards board |
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0:15:00 | which set the data model for this nugget of energy information that can then be used by all the other |
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0:15:06 | groups to have consist |
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0:15:09 | i mentioned here as spoke organisation here's some of the uh the government to government interactions that are going on |
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0:15:14 | as well as the various works of the stairs about one organisations |
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0:15:18 | as an ieee a group a should point out that we have a strong connection with the P twenty thirty |
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0:15:24 | there's also um the international smart reaction network |
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0:15:28 | is a an uh which is a strong international law a push to um |
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0:15:33 | uh |
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0:15:34 | to help to accelerate the development and deployment of a lecture rooms |
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0:15:38 | smart right |
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0:15:40 | then then to to to kind of finish up i'm just gonna whizz through very quickly some technical capabilities on |
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0:15:46 | the measurements side |
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0:15:48 | i just to give you a taste of the kinds of things that were able to do from a technology |
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0:15:52 | point of |
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0:15:54 | so if you look at this domain diagram here all the different places that we have efforts on research |
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0:16:00 | i mean a focus in on just a couple |
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0:16:02 | in here a little bit later about phasor measurement units |
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0:16:06 | one of the things that nist has done is put together a |
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0:16:09 | calibration service |
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0:16:11 | for these units basically these give you a snapshot of the grid the state of the |
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0:16:17 | can like an E K G for the for |
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0:16:20 | by working on both the standards as well as test beds were able to |
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0:16:25 | uh put together a testing program to sit |
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0:16:27 | for the deployment of these that these units |
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0:16:31 | yeah we're working very closely with the various standards organisations to improve |
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0:16:36 | in addition we do a lot with building automation and control |
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0:16:39 | and for example one of the things that we're doing right now is developing an net zero energy residence |
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0:16:45 | and some of the action will be and looking at the communications |
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0:16:48 | between the grid and |
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0:16:50 | buildings |
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0:16:52 | looking at a ways to to improve that |
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0:16:55 | more generally there's a need for data management this is where this community can come in and help with there's |
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0:17:01 | all sorts of things that we need with real data |
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0:17:04 | you're are just a few of the new computational applications we're gonna see forecasting load |
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0:17:09 | variable generation |
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0:17:11 | a lot more situational awareness and data management there's a lot of data involved |
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0:17:15 | and also a eventually getting to the point a control |
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0:17:19 | so with that'll conclude here's my contact information if you'd like to uh ask any further questions |
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0:17:25 | and perhaps we have a time for for |
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0:18:17 | i think there's room for innovation in particularly in the uh a part that faces the consider |
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0:18:23 | so the parts |
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0:18:24 | dealing with demand response |
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0:18:26 | and things that the commune or |
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0:18:28 | the consumer is going to need |
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0:18:31 | kind of summarised and understood to see how they can then act the information |
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0:18:37 | there's also a fair amount that goes on within the utility space there's lots of |
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0:18:41 | parts that have to communicate with each other |
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0:18:43 | however |
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0:18:45 | most of that is you point out there is as regulatory aspect that can sometimes it feels like you're walking |
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0:18:50 | through molasses |
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0:18:52 | but |
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0:18:53 | the trick is to simplify things |
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0:18:56 | and do all that technical details stuff underneath but you have to simplify it in layers and layers because in |
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0:19:02 | the and |
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0:19:03 | you're talking with regulators the don't understand |
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0:19:06 | very much of the technical D |
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0:19:09 | and so the make progress on the parts that |
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0:19:11 | impact regulation really takes a different skill set |
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0:19:15 | so in essence we need the work |
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0:19:17 | of the technology developers but then we also need the ability to interact with the right |
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0:19:29 | okay just a smart grid need smart customers |
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0:19:31 | um |
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0:19:32 | yes and no |
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0:19:33 | uh i |
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0:19:34 | if we're gonna reliance smart customers a wait for a long time |
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0:19:38 | um however |
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0:19:39 | we were we can do is get the customers that's for that they need to basically set there |
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0:19:45 | uh |
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0:19:45 | um preferences and then a automated systems then respond to this and |
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0:19:52 | in essence we're gonna need |
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0:19:53 | smart consumers who are able to buy the V C R's |
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0:19:56 | but we need as V C R to automatically program that solves so they're not flashing with the the day |
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0:20:03 | thing but of course were with D V hours now but |
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0:20:06 | i |
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0:20:07 | so so in S and some other needs to be a lot to make it simple for the can |
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