Extended Deadline for ASHRAE Facility Smart Grid Information Standard- Now August 3 - SGIP PAP 17 Startup

I'm sending this to the smartgid-interest and BLUE member section
    list at OASIS because of broad interest on usage and other facility
    information.

    

    There's been quite a bit of interest in this work, and ASHRAE has
    extended the deadline to August 3. This is the core of new NIST/SGIP
    Priority Action Plan 17 (see links below).

    

    Membership is not required and there are no fees to join the
    committee.

    

    Since I'm not an ASHRAE member I'm sharing some of the glitches I
    worked through to complete my application (below Steve Bushby's
    announcement email below - questions to him).

    

    
      
ASHRAE has extended the deadline until August 3 for interested parties to
        apply for membership on Standard Project Committee 201P,
        Facility Smart Grid Information. This extension is in response
        to a number of last minute questions and some apparent confusion
        about the scope of the proposed standard and the application
        process. This standard will define an information model to
        enable control systems and end use devices found in commercial
        and institutional buildings, industrial facilities, and single-
        and multi-family homes to interact with a future Smart Grid.

      
ASHRAE membership is not a requirement and
        there are no application fees. The application process is used
        to ensure that the voting membership of the committee meets ANSI
        requirements for a balanced representation of interests. ASHRAE
        encourages all interested parties including energy service
        providers, and users and manufacturers of building and
        industrial control systems, residential appliances, and consumer
        electronics to submit an application following the instructions
        attached to this message.

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      Steven T. Bushby 

      Leader, Mechanical Systems
        and Controls Group

        Building and Fire Research Laboratory

        National Institute of Standards and Technology

        Gaithersburg, MD  20899-8631  USA

        

      tel:  (301) 975 5873

        fax: (301) 975-8973

        e-mail: 
    

    Steps to sign up and tips for those who haven't done this:

    
      
Read the forms (attached) and fill them out.

      
Create a login (if you don't have one) at http://www.ashrae.org
        by clicking below the Signin Block on "Need a login?"

      
Login

      
To use some features of the ASHRAE site you must enable popups
        and Javascript

      

      
Click on "Update Your Bio" -- Bio info MUST be up to date for
        your application to be accepted.

      
On  your "Update Your Bio" page there's a set of links above
        your name. if you're a new web site member, you'll fill in your
        name, and they'll send you a link with your id.

      
Go through ALL of the items about your name block and fill
        them in. Demographics, Contact Info, Membership, Edu. Pro Reg,
        Honors and Awards, Participation, Other. These will be used to
        build  your bio for the application.

      
Click on "print my profile" to see what's actually saved and
        in there.

      
Take the forms (attached) and fill them out.

      
        
Application Form. To put in check boxes, double click in
          Word and select "marked". (ATTACHED)

        

        
Potential Sources of Bias/Conflictof Interest Form at http://www.ashrae.org/technology/page/97
          (ATTACHED)

        

      
      
You MUST SEND A SCAN of the SIGNED forms, or FAX  them to the
        place identified on the forms.

      
Remember that the deadline is August 3 for getting your
          forms in.

      

    
    

    Key Links:

    
      
ASHRAE Home Page http://www.ashrae.org/ (You
        must set up a login - click "Need a Login?" link just below the
        Signin block and the yellow Submit block if you don't have one)

      

      
The Standards Action SPC 201P form is the announcement

      

      
The Membership form must be filled out (attached)

      

      
http://www.ashrae.org/technology/page/97
        is where you can get the Potential Sources of Bias/Conflict form
        (also attached). Remember you must enable popups and Javascript
        to get these documents from the web site.

      

      
PAP17 Page http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-sggrid/bin/view/SmartGrid/PAP17FacilitySmartGridInformationStandard

      
Sign up for PAP17 Email List at http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-sggrid/bin/view/SmartGrid/PriorityActionPlans#Individual_PAP_Lists
        ; direct link for PAP17 is http://www.smartgridlistserv.org/cgi/wa.exe?SUBED1=SGIP-PAP17WG&A=1

    
    

    
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20100706_BiasConflictofInterest072010.doc

Standards Action SPC 201P.pdf

Membership Application Procedures for Standard & Guideline Project Committees.doc