Re: [smartgrid-discuss] Draft charter for proposed OASIS Energy Interoperation Technical Committee

Bill,

Thanks for posting this draft; I will read through it to see if I can find the answers to my questions and concerns and/or throw in suggestions for things I think need addressing.

But, since I've had these questions and issues for a while I'll take a couple minutes to throw them out to the group as well:

1.) I am working on bidirectional power management for the grid and this seems to be something that gets very little mention in this standards work.  Specifically, I am interested in vehicle-to-grid connection that allows for distributed energy storage solutions.  The use of grig-connected vehicles and other distributed storage mechanisms to allow grid support, spinning reserve, peak shaving, power quality support, etc.  represents a major opportunity for smart-grid operation, but it also seems to be low priority or "someday, maybe" in terms of standards.

2.) The mass of different standards and organizations related to energy control, demand response, home area networks, etc. is dizzying and hard to handle for a new vendor eying the development of actual hardware.  I understand that the likelihood that any one standard can satisfy the many different requirements of different players, but it is extremely confusing to come to this field and find so many different organizations proclaiming themselves as the "standard".  So, I have a concern/question re: whether we should put a lot of effort into this work or just go work to make sure that one of the many other standards starts to gain momentum or expands enough to include issues that drive us to want to have another new one.

As I said, I am interested in reading through this and seeing if I can contribute anything useful, and hopefully all will become clear.

Thanks and regards,

-Glenn Skutt
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Glenn Skutt
VPT Energy Systems
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:51 PM, William Cox <> wrote:

Please find attached the draft charter for the proposed OASIS Energy
Interoperation Technical Committee. I've attached a PDF, OpenDocument,
and Word versions, all with line numbers for ease of discussion and
review.

We invite you to comment on this list and to determine your interest in
joining this
work - please contact me directly if you would like to be listed as a
supporter.

This proposal is being posted to smartgrid-discuss for (guess what!)
discussion and review. The intent of the drafting group is to revise
this draft after a
comment period, and then submit the revised charter to the OASIS'
Technical Committee process,.

The core work of the TC is defining XML and Web services interactions
for so-called Automated Demand Response, growing out of work at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Demand Response Research Center
led by Mary Ann Piette, who is the convener of the proposed TC. This
specific proposal comes from the context of many discussions in and
related to the OpenADR Technical Advisory Group, GridWise Architecture
Council, Grid-Interop, the NIST Smart Grid project, GridEcon (a
conference in March on the economics of the Smart Grid -
http://www.gridecon.com/ ) and many other places.

The LBNL OpenADR body of work is being extended through two
organizations/entities being created: this proposed OASIS Technical
Committee and a proposed UCAIug OpenADR Task Force. In this innovative
collaboration, the UCAIug, whose members are largely utilities and
their suppliers, we will focus requirements, goals, data models and
comments through UCAIug, involving their membership. 

If you're not familiar with OASIS Technical Committee Charters, the
statement of purpose is section (1)(b), the scope is section (1)(c),
and identification of similar or applicable work is section (2)(a).

As usual as charters evolve, the list of supporters is empty in this
public discussion draft, and the list of deliverables and timeline is
not included -- the next version will have those sections completed.
Again, if you would like to join this work as a supporter and member of
the technical committee, let us know.

Collaboration with other groups of stakeholders is actively being
sought; please
contact me for how to get involved. Other stakeholders include energy
market makers, Independent System Operators (such as those in
California, Texas, New England, the Midwest, etc), and policy and
regulatory groups.  For more details, see the draft charter -- and step
forward so we can make this interoperation effort both broad and
effective.

Thanks!

bill cox

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