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.
Grid Interop 2012 Call for Papers
"Driving to Grid 2020"
The GridWise® Architecture Council (GWAC) envisions a United States smart grid electric system as a collaborative network of intelligent systems and devices exchanging information and offering abundant opportunities for product and market development. This electric system spans central and distributed generation, energy storage, transmission and distribution, customer interfaces and appliances, and electric vehicles, plus the information systems that help manage this equipment. The GridWise vision weaves together the most productive elements of our traditional infrastructure with new technologies that integrate easily and safely into a cohesive system. Using advanced telecommunications and information technology, we can create a "society" of devices that functions as an integrated, transactive system, while achieving ease of use by all customers.
This sixth annual Grid-Interop Forum builds on the success of the past events (see the event proceedings for 2007 - 2011) by helping to enhance interoperability activities in pursuit of the smart grid.
Abstracts should address ideas and proposals to advance interoperability of smart grids as articulated by the GridWise Architecture Council and to implement the NIST Interoperability Roadmap. Grid-Interop offers the opportunity to discuss new and innovative ways for improving smart grid interactions, and the opportunity to participate in actions that shape the future of interoperability.
To provide organizational context, the agenda of Grid-Interop 2012 will be divided into tracks that correspond to the broad divisions of the GridWise Architecture Council interoperability stack. These tracks include Business and Policy, Information Interoperability, Architecture, and Crosscutting topics. Each of these tracks is described briefly and some key questions for each track are provided to spur the thoughts and imagination of the authors
Please see the following link for more information: http://www.grid-interop.com/2012/#cfp
