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.
Domain Expert Working Groups
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the GridWise Architecture Council are working together to facilitate the development of Domain Expert Working Groups (DEWGs) to explore smart grid interoperability issues, and to determine paths forward in these categories:
- Buildings to Grid (B2G)
- Industrial to Grid (I2G)
- Home to Grid (H2G)
- Transmission & Distribution (T&D)
- Business and Policy (B&P)
