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
GridWise® Architecture Council 2010 Call for Candidates was announced and submissions were accepted between November 30, 2009 and January 5, 2010. The Nominations Committee has reviewed the applications for the new members and the current members who wished to remain on the council. As a result, the following slate of candidates was confirmed: Ron Ambrosio, Rik Drummond, Erich Gunther, Alex Levinson, Ken Wacks and two new members Wayne Longcore and Thomas Sloan joined the council. Nora Brownell, Lynne Kiesling and Stephanie Hamilton will move to the emeritus status. The committee found no applicants with an economics background who would be suitable replacements for Ms. Kiesling. She has agreed to remain active while the suitable replacement is found. The process is expected to be concluded in mid February, 2010.
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)
