GridWise Architecture Council
The GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) is a team of industry leaders who are shaping the guiding principles, or architecture, of a highly intelligent and interactive electric system—one ripe with decision-making information exchange and market-based opportunities. This architecture will provide guidelines for interaction between participants and interoperability between technologies and systems.
The Council is neither a design team, nor a standards making body. Our role is to help identify areas for standardization that allow significant levels of interoperation between system components. We are helping to outline a philosophy of inter-system operation that preserves the freedom to innovate, design, implement and maintain each organization's
portion of the electrical system.
For more information on the Architecture Council's mission, organizational structure, and progress see the Mission & Structure page.
Call for Candidates 2010
The GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) is pleased to announce its new members: Thomas Sloan, Wayne Longcore and Amr Ibrahim. The new members will lend their knowledge to the organization in their respective areas of expertise. more> (PDF 128KB)
Two Council Members Elected to the SGIP's Governing Board
Two council members, Bob Saint and Rik Drummond, were elected to the SGIP's governing board more>
Best Paper Awards Presented at Grid-Interop 2009
At the forum's closing ceremonies GWAC Chairman Ron Ambrosio and Administrator Ron Melton recognized one technical paper from each track for excellence in quality and advancement of smart grid interoperability. more> (PDF 45KB)
