NEW IEEE STANDARD AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO AID SMART-GRID COMMUNICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION

Empowering Consumer Choice and Boosting Power Reliability and Efficiency Dependent on More Robust Communications and Distribution-automation Capabilities Bangalore, April 23, 2012:IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity,today announced the publication of anew standard, as well as the launch ofthree newstandards-developmentactivities, all designed to enhance the communications and distribution-automation capabilities of the smart grid globally. Many of the benefits that the world hopes to achieve throughsmart-grid developmentsuch as empowering greater consumer choice in energy use, improving the reliability of power generation and distribution and more efficiently meeting skyrocketing power demandare dependent on integrating significantly more robust systems for communications and distribution automation, saidDr. W. Charlton Adams Jr., past president of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEESA).The new standards activities approved by the IEEE-SA Standards Board are designed to enhance those very capabilitiesand, in doing so, accelerate realization of the smart grids revolutionary promise. IEEE-SA has published IEEE 1591.1-2012 Standard for Testing and Performance of Hardware for Optical Ground Wire (OPGW). OPGW is being used in the smart grid to provide both grounding capabilities for transmission lines and communications back to utility systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). IEEE 1591.1 provides manufacturing, testing and procurement specifications for use with OPGWhardware.The new standard is available for purchase at the IEEE

Standards Store.Smart-grid standards projects newly approved by IEEE-SA include the following: IEEE P1909.1Recommended Practice for Smart Grid Communication

Equipment -Test methods and installation requirements is intended to document testing and installation procedures that are geared specifically for communications equipment to be installed in various domains of the smart grid, such as generation, transmission and distribution. Safety, electromagnetic capability (EMC), environmental and mechanical tests are to be covered in the recommended practice, toward the goal of improving the safety and reliability of a wide range of smart-grid communications equipment. IEEE P1703Standard for Local Area Network/Wide Area Network

(LAN/WAN) Node Communication Protocol to complement the Utility Industry End Device Data Tables is intended to improve the cost efficiency and flexibility of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments. The standard is being developed to define uniform, managed, adaptive and secure networkdata and message delivery for plug-and-play, multi-source utility meters, home appliances, communication technology and other ancillary devices. IEEE P1854 Guide for Smart Distribution Applications Guide is being developed to categorize and describe important smart distribution applications and fill a gap for standardized definitions of such systems. The guide is intended to cover advanced automation and SCADA systems for reliability improvement, outagemanagement, faultlocation and management, voltage and var management, distributed-resource real-time and renewablefor system generation integration, demand response, advanced protection, equipment diagnostics and asset management, simulation optimization, microgrids and many other applications.

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