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Subject: Re: [smartgrid-interest] Draft Charter - Energy Market Information Exchange
Bill, A few suggestions for the draft charter for the proposed OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX) Technical Committee: 1) The draft charter states, "European markets have an additional area of interface, between Transmission and Distribution (in American terminology), as these are typically under separate ownership. As time allows, or in a future update, the TC may address those needs as well." I think it's important for your "Enterprise View" to include these needs without fail, because -- Customer ownership of microgrids (a la Galvin Institute's "Perfect Power") will be likely be a critical factor in the transition from centralized to distributed generation, globally. Distributed generation is very much driven by new opportunities for distributed ownership and control of energy assets. -- Global product deployment and customer acceptance of the new standards will require international participation, or at least consideration of other nations' requirements, in the development of the standards. Larger markets encourage investment, innovation, technology convergence and lower prices, so everyone will benefit if the standards are global. Rapid national and global market rollout of distributed generation has important national and global security benefits and economic benefits. 2) The Enterprise view for Smart Grid commerce standards needs to explicitly state that ownership of each physical "feature" (meter device, device metered, building, right of way, etc.) matters. 3) The Enterprise View for Energy Market Information Exchange should explicitly state the need for standards to support measurement, control and real-time buying/selling (and sometimes regulating) not only of electricity but also of fuels and combustion (and emissions, such as wood smoke in urban settings), water and sewage and perhaps even bandwidth usage. Also, end user and small generator participation in carbon trading needs to be explicitly enabled and not inadvertently precluded by the standards. Detailed standards for the electric power markets should come first, but as part of a comprehensive and coherent high level "smart pipes and wires" standards framework. 4) I missed the end of the comment period for the draft charter of the OASIS Energy Interoperation TechnicalCommittee, so I failed to register my comment (offered as an OGC consultant) that indoor and outdoor spatial locations and spatial relationships matter. But this is important for commerce as well. Geospatial standards from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), ISO TC/211 and IEEE 1451 are in wide use and need to be incorporated into the Smart Grid standards ecosystem. OGC and the buildingSMART Alliance recently completed the first in a planned series of multi-sponsor, multi-participant AEC-Owner-Operator (AECOO) Testbeds in which energy is an important focus. Follow-on AECOO Testbeds will likely involve the OGC Sensor Web Enablement and IEEE 1451 "smart transducer" standards. OASIS has a memorundum of understanding with the OGC. The OGC's CTO is Carl Reed (creed@opengeospatial.org). The buildingSMART alliance contact for the AECOO testbed is Christopher Groome (chris.groome@b-r-t.co.uk). The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Sensor Technology Technical Committee is chaired by Kang Lee (kang.lee@nist.gov). Thank you for the opportunity to offer these comments. Lance Lance McKee phone/fax: 508-752-0108 cell: 508-868-2295 On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:43 PM, William Cox wrote: I've attached a draft charter for the proposed OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX) Technical Committee. |
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