Article #800 - IEEE

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and IEEE societies have numerous committees working on grid modernization topics. As GridWise™ concepts and efforts progress, the significance of various technical committees and working groups will evolve. Because there is no architectural or integrative approach in IEEE groups, it is not obvious which particular group would be key for initial needs of the GridWise Architecture Board, although several specific efforts will be of great interest to GridWise (for example, SCC21 P1547).

GridWise architecture would benefit from additional information on current undertakings of SCC36 (and in general, a more accurate picture of GridWise-related efforts in IEEE), this information is not readily obtainable to non-members of committees.

This snapshot underlines the compartmentalization of GridWise-related efforts in the IEEE and the lack of any overarching, guiding mechanism between these numerous efforts.

IEEE-SA and IEEE Societies

IEEE-SA, IEEE Standards Association
Overview

The website contains IEEE standards for various technical fields including power and energy area. The parent organization, IEEE is an International trade body-including IEEE-SA and IEEE-ISTO and IEEE Societies. Some IEEE "Societies" have technical activities groups which develop standards, at some point this standards development is transferred to IEEE-SA. IEEE Councils regroup several IEEE societies. Societies relevant to GridWise include: IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Power Engineering Society.

It may be in the interest of GridWise to aim to create an IEEE GridWise Council, regrouping the various IEEE Societies touching on GridWise.

The IEEE-ISTO is a sort of prepackaged consortia home-base for initiatives and standards-making which doesn't follow the classic IEEE track.

Significance for GridWise Key
Industry Sector(s) Electricity, Building, Communications, IT
Geopolitical Reach Primarily US, (though with international member basis
Type of Standards Body ANSI Accredited SDO
Relevant Standards and Work Groups

IEEE-SA SCC21: 1547 series - Standard and Draft Standards for Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electric Power Systems

IEEE-SA SCC31: Automatic Meter Reading and Energy Management

IEEE-SA SCC36: Utility Communications (UCA).

IEEE-PES Power Quality Committee

IEEE-PES Substations Committee

IEEE-PES Power Systems Communications Committee

IEEE-PES Power System Dynamic Performance

IEEE-PES Power System Relaying Committee

IEEE-PES Transmission and Distribution Committee

IEEE-PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee

IEEE-IAS--(Power Systems Engineering Committee) Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Department (most color books)

IEEE IAS (Industry Applications Society)(Energy Systems Committee) P739 Bronze Book - Energy Management in Industrial and Commercial Facilities

IEEE-Computer Society--Technical Committee on Computer Communications (802 series)

IEEE-Computer Society--Microprocessor Standard Committee (1394 series)

IEEE-Computer Society--Task Force on Electronic Commerce

IEEE Power Electronics Society Standards Committee

Design Center Networking, Communications protocols, Best Practice, Systems...
Interrelations ANSI
Contact Information

IEEE-SA, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association(Link opens in a new window)

Last Modified: 2005-11-09