Greentech Lead India: The IEEE Standards Association
(IEEE-SA), a standards setting body within IEEE, has become an associate member
of the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) promoted by Ministry of Power, Govt. of
India.
The membership will allow IEEE-SA to attend forum
meetings and participate in initiatives driven by the forum.
The India Smart Grid Forum is a consortium of public and
private stakeholders formed with the objective of helping Indian power sector
to deploy Smart Grid technologies in an efficient, cost-effective, innovative
and scalable manner.
IEEE-SA will bring its standards
related deep knowledge and arising perspectives to the deliberations at the
forum. With this membership IEEE-SA further enhance its role in evolving the
right ecosystem for effective smart grid implementation in the Indian smart
grid market.
Over the past two years, IEEE-SA
has been engaged in creating wider awareness of Smart Grid as a concept and
also in bringing multiple stakeholders together to transfer best practices and
knowledge from other Smart Grid markets worldwide.
“We believe ISGF is the apt platform for the facilitating
role we have chosen to play and are pleased to be the first association to
become a member. The membership marks a significant step forward in our growing
engagement with the Indian Smart Grid market. Beyond participation, we will
actively contribute and help ISGF achieve the objectives it has set for
itself,” said Bill Ash, strategic program manager, IEEE Standards Association.
IEEE-SA has launched key standards and guidelines such as
the IEEE 2030 Smart Grid Interoperability Guide, the first such standard that
aids interoperability of energy, information and communications technologies;
IEEE 1547, the first guide for implementation of Microgrids and the IEEE 1901
standard for Broadband over Power Line.
Currently, IEEE-SA has over 100 standards and
standards-in-development spanning the entire Smart Grid spectrum. IEEE-SA has
plans to launch more standards that enable better interoperability, connection,
communication and management of the various elements that go into a Smart Grid.
IEEE announces three new standards-development activities
Recently, IEEE announced the publication of a new
standard, as well as the launch of three new standards-development activities.
These new standard are designed to enhance the communications and
distribution-automation capabilities of the smart grid globally.
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