NIST Speeding Smart Grid Standard On Consumer Energy Info

摘要

With state regulators increasingly insisting on near-term consumer benefits from costly smart grid deployment, the federally-backed Smart Grid Interoperability Panel is accelerating development of a national standard that will specify the types of energy usage data that utility smart meters and information systems must deliver to ratepayers so they can take action to cut their consumption, a top federal official says.rnGeorge Arnold, an official at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) who is spearheading government-industry efforts to set national smart grid standards, also told Congress recently that his agency and the so-called SGIP-a panel of smart grid experts from utilities and other affected industries-were hustling on standards for home appliances that can communicate with the grid so those products can go to market next year.