This architecture provides the guidelines, standards and processes for the applications, the data, and the integration associated with Smart Grid while overlaying comprehensive security architecture.

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 ...

NIST has updated its smart grid framework, adding a number of standards tied to smart meters. (Credit: iStock) Over the past few years, the federal government has devoted billions of dollars to help ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has contracted the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to help it develop an interim road ...

Likened to "a designer’s first detailed drawing of a complex structure," smart grid development plans have emerged. A new document by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...

Over the last decade, smart grid innovators have recognized the importance of an intelligent grid architecture while, over the same period, the electric power industry has been experiencing dramatic ...

According to a recent report from Pike Research, many utilities are turning to the discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) for a solution. As smart meter installations begin to ramp down in North ...

As different as the energy industry is from the manufacturing and processing industries, there are increasing connection points between the two when it comes to Internet of Things technology ...

Generally, cars are categorized among the contributors to the world’s dwindling energy supply. But, using a $10,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Kansas University students ...

As different as the energy industry is from the manufacturing and processing industries, there are increasing connection points between the two when it comes to Internet of Things technology ...

A municipal utility in the South may not be where you’d expect to find an exemplary smart grid implementation, but that’s just fine with EPB Chattanooga. Its leaders are raking in the kudos—including ...