Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has unveiled the first draft of a Smart Grid framework that lays the foundation for a secure, interoperable, next-generation power distribution system. The report, titled ...

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., recently released for public review a report that identifies issues and proposes priorities for ...

NIST seeks comments on the draft NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks comments on the draft ...

NIST has introduced an initial set of standards and a framework for creating a new smart energy distribution grid, the first step of a three-phase plan by NIST to develop Smart Grid standards. An ...

Whether it's a new set of solar panels glistening on a neighbor's roof or a freshly installed smart thermostat at home, burgeoning renewable and smart technologies represent steps toward a sustainable ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this month announced the release of Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, a voluminous set of documents written to help organizations form ...

It shouldn't surprise you to hear that the 90-page smart grid standards document released in late September by the U.S. Commerce Department lists no fewer than 80 standards that are vying for some ...

A cybersecurity working group is developing a security architecture and comprehensive set of security requirements to accompany the Smart Grid framework being developed by NIST's office for Smart Grid ...

With more than $4 billion in federal money available for smart grid demonstration projects, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.) has announced an initiative to develop a ...

Because today’s energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies lack connective infrastructure, they provide only first steps toward climate change mitigation. Quantitatively they only make dents.

The biggest network upgrade in the United States today is Smart Grid, a multibillion dollar modernization of the electricity grid that involves supporting real-time, two-way digital communications ...