Keeping the Lights On:

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Smart Grid Interoperability Panel and Testing and
Certification Committee
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• Keeping the Lights On
• Strategies for Compatibility and Interoperability
  in Electrical Power Networks seminar
• October 27, 2011
• Presented by
• Don Heirman
• President, Don HEIRMAN Consultants

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What is the Smart Grid?
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The Smart Grid integrates information technology
and advanced communications into the power system
in order to

• Increase system efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Provide customers tools to manage energy use
• Improve reliability, resiliency and power quality
• Enable use of innovative technologies including
  renewables, storage
• and electric vehicles

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Smart Grid The Energy Internet
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2-way flow of electricity and information
Standards Provide a Critical Foundation
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Smart Grid Electrical Grid Intelligence
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Graphics courtesy of EPRI
Interoperability requires reliable standards and
validated performance
Combining electrical and communication grids
requires interoperability
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Smart Grid Interoperability
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• Interoperability The ability of 2 or more
  networks, systems, devices, applications, or
  components to communicate operate together
  effectively, securely, without significant user
  intervention
• Communication requires agreement on a physical
  interface communication protocols
• Exchanging meaningful actionable information
  requires common definitions of terms agreed
  upon responses
• Consistent performance requires standards for the
  reliability, integrity, and security of
  communications
• Interoperability may include
• Plug and play connect them they work
  together
• Interchangeability Ability to readily
  substitute components

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NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
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• Public-private partnership created in Nov. 2009
• Over 650 member organizations, 1700 participants
• Open, public process with international
  participation
• Coordinates standards development
• Identifies Requirements
• Prioritizes standards development programs
• Works with over 20 SDOs including IEC, ISO, ITU,
  IEEE,
• Web-based participation

SGIP Twiki http//collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-sgg
rid/bin/view/SmartGrid/SGIP
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NIST/SGIP Smart Grid
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• The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) was
  created as a public/private partnership for
  longer-term evolution of standards
  interoperability
• SGIP will support NIST in fulfilling its
  responsibilities under the 2007 Energy
  Independence and Security Act (EISA).
• SGIP will identify, prioritize and address new
  and emerging requirements for Smart Grid
  standards. It will further develop the initial
  NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid
  Interoperability Standards

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SGIP Organization
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NIST
Governing Board
SGIP Officers

SGIP Administrator
Priority Action Plan Teams
PAP 2
PAP 3
PAP 1
PAP
PAP 4
PAP 17
Domain Expert Working Groups
H2G
B2G
BnP
TnD
I2G
SGIP Membership
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Filling Gaps in the Standards
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• Priority Action Plans (led by NIST staff)

Priority Action Plan Priority Action Plan
0 Meter Upgradeability Standard 9 Standard DR and DER Signals
1 Role of IP in the Smart Grid 10 Standard Energy Usage Information
2 Wireless Communication for the Smart Grid 11 Common Object Models for Electric Transportation
3 Common Price Communication Model 12 IEC 61850 Objects/DNP3 Mapping
4 Common Scheduling Mechanism 13 Time Synchronization, IEC 61850 Objects/ IEEE C37.118 Harmonization
5 Standard Meter Data Profiles 14 Transmission and Distribution Power Systems Model Mapping
6 Common Semantic Model for Meter Data tables 15 Harmonize Power Line Carrier Standards for Appliance Communications in the Home
7 Electric Storage Interconnection Guidelines 16 Wind Plant Communications
8 CIM for Distribution Grid Management 17 Facility Smart Grid Information
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SGIP Testing and Certification Committee (SGTCC)
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• SG Testing and Certification Committee
• Consist of at least eight members selected by the
  Plenary Chair, and all other interested members
  confirmed by majority vote of the SGIP.
• Creates and maintains the necessary documentation
  and organizational framework for compliance,
  interoperability and cyber security testing and
  certification for SGIP-recommended Smart Grid
  standards.

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SGTCC working groups
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• SG Testing and Certificating Committee (SGTCC)
  Organization which is part of the SGIP
• SGTCC Teams (WGs)
• Document Review Team
• Priority Interoperability Issues-WG3
• IPRM-WG4
• Laboratory Qualification Criteria-WG5
• End to End Testing Team
• TCC Roadmap Review Team
• IPRM Implementation-WG8

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SGTCC Smart Grid
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• IPRM-WG4
• Status completed IPRM Version 1.0 2.0 in vote
• Lab Qualification Criteria-WG5
• Status Inactive
• End to End Testing Team
• Provide considerations that extend beyond
  pair-wise interoperability, i.e. the entire chain
  via use case examples
• Status Active

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SGTCC End to End TestingTemplate
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• 3 Test Use Case
• 4 Developing Test Requirements
• 4.1 Test Architecture
• 4.1.1 Test Component View
• 4.1.2 Test Information View
• 4.1 Test Security View
• 4.2 Interoperability Functional Statements
  (IFS) Proforma
• 4.3 Test Groups
• 4.4 Test Purpose
• 4.5 Additional Requirements
• 4.6 Testing Context and Methods
• 4.6.2 Test Steps
• 4.6.3 Test Sequence Diagram

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SGTCC End to End Testing
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• 5 Testing Process
• 5.1 Overview
• 5.2 Policies and Principles
• 5.3 Test Assessment
• 5.3.1 Application Submission
• 5.3.2 Test Environment Submission
• 5.4 Test Preparation
• 5.4.1 Test Plan
• 5.4.2 Test Design
• 5.4.3 Test Configuration
• 5.5 Testing
• 5.6 Test Results

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SGTCC Smart Grid
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• TCC Roadmap Review Team
• Establish TCC priority work items for 2011,
  evaluating those proposed in the original plan,
  as well as recommending new work items based on
  additional identified needs to support a testing
  and certification framework for Smart Grid
  systems and devices
• Status As needed

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SGTCC Smart Grid
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• IPRM Implementation-WG8
• Manages the development of processes, tools and
  guidance to support stakeholders of the
  Interoperability Process Reference Manual (IPRM),
  particularly Interoperability Testing
  Certification Authorities (ITCAs) intending to
  implement the IPRM in certification programs
• Status Active

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Interoperability Process Reference Manual (IPRM)
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• The IPRM is a key foundational element of the
  SGTCC Testing and Certification Framework. It
  will enable the adoption of consistent and
  measurable certification and testing policies and
  procedures across all Smart Grid standards based
  on the conformance, interoperability, and
  cybersecurity testing experience and expertise of
  SGTCC participants, and the widely accepted ISO
  Guide 65 and ISO 17025 international standards
  for laboratory and certification program quality
  management systems.

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Interoperability Process Reference Manual (IPRM)
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• The SGTCC has developed and issued this
  Interoperability Process Reference Manual (IPRM)
  detailing its recommendations on processes and
  best practices that enhance Smart Grid
  interoperability testing and certification
  programs. Implementation of the IPRM by
  Interoperability Testing and Certification
  Authorities (ITCAs) will increase the quality of
  standards-based, secure and interoperable
  products in the Smart Grid marketplace.
• The SGTCC believes that implementation of the
  IPRM will lead to reduced deployment costs of
  Smart Grid systems and devices and enhanced
  product quality with respect to interoperability
  and conformance, ultimately providing confidence
  to end users through meaningful certification
  programs.

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Interoperability Process Reference Manual (IPRM)
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• CONTENTS
• 1. IPRM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 2. INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS BENCHMARKS FOR TESTING
  AND CERTIFICATION
• 3. ORGANIZATION OF IPRM
• 4. ITCA IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IPRM
• 4.1. What is an ITCA?
• 4.2. How does an ITCA implement the IPRM?
• 4.3. Relationship between Accreditation
  Authorities, ITCAs, Certification Bodies Test
  Labs

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Interoperability Process Reference Manual (IPRM)
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• 5. BEST PRACTICES FOR INTEROPERABILITY AND
  CONFORMANCE TEST CONSTRUCTION
• 5.1 General Test Policies
• 5.2 Test Suite Specification (TSS)
• 5.3 Attributes of a Test Profile in lieu of
  complete TSS
• 6. SECURITY BEST PRACTICES
• 7. INTEROPERABILITY TESTING AND CERTIFICATION
  AUTHORITY ROLE AND REQUIREMENTS
• 7.1. Interoperability Requirements For Use By The
  ITCA
• 7.2. Governance
• 7.3. Lab Qualification
• 7.4. Technical Design for Interoperability and
  Conformance Program Design
• 7.5. Improvements
• 7.6. Cyber Security

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American Council of Independent Laboratories
(ACIL) Perspective
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• Ensure fair and open process for selecting
  labs
• Keep technical and administrative requirements
  on track
• Suggest improvements in the testing and
  certification process
• Provide business opportunity possibilities
• In summary---support activity by participating in
  the SGIP/SCTCC work

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ACIL Smart Grid Focus
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• Focus resides in Conformity Assessment Section
• SG Task Force (SGTF) formed in Spring 2010
• Chair pro tem Don Heirman
• 16 members
• Holds regular teleconferences/webinars
• Minutes recorded
• Actions identified
• Monitoring/participating in SGIP committee
  webinars and review of documents

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Current SG Task Force WG8 Activities
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• Comment on Interoperability Process Reference
  Manual (IPRM)second edition
• Review information needed for applying to be an
  Interoperability Testing and Certification
  Authority (ITCA) and what is required and
  requested in detailed application form
• Decide how to identify ITCAs on website including
  their scopes and interoperability
• Follow who is designated ITCAs and consider being
  an ITCA
• Continue to monitor and participate in SGTCC and
  key weekly (or more) WG webinars

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Current SG Task Force Activities
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• Activities in End to End testing task
• Review initial documents that present an end to
  end test scenario for Home Area Networks (HANs)
• Indicates testing to communication standards
• Has section on testing including the role of test
  plans
• TF asked to comment on document with special
  attention to how to instrument and conduct test

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Example Electric Vehicles Require Many Standards
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Further Information
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• NIST Smart Grid Web portal http//www.nist.gov/s
  martgrid
• SGIP - NIST SG collaboration web page
• http//collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-sggrid/bin/view
  /SmartGrid/WebHome
• SG Testing and Certification Web site
• http//collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-sggrid/bin/view
  /SmartGrid/SmartGridTestingAndCertificationCommitt
  ee
• American Council of Independent Laboratories
• http//www.acil.org

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Further Information - Contacts
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• NIST Contacts
• George Arnold, National Coordinator for Smart
  Grid Interoperability
• Email george.arnold_at_nist.gov
• Telephone [phone]
• David Wollman, Leader, Electrical Metrology
  Groups
• Email david.wollman_at_nist.gov
• Telephone [phone]
• Galen Koepke, Chair SGIP EMII Working Group
• Email galen.koepke_at_nist.gov
• Telephone [phone]

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Further Information - Contacts
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• SGIP Contacts
• John McDonald
• Chair, SGIP
• Johnd.mcdonald_at_ge.com
• Rik Drummond
• Chair, SGTCC
• rikd_at_drummondgroup.com

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Further Information - Contacts
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• ACIL Contacts
• Don Heirman
• Chair Pro Tem
• ACIL Smart Grid Task Force
• d.heirman_at_ieee.org
• www.donheirman.com
• Mike Violette
• Chair
• ACIL Conformity Assessment Section
• mikev_at_wll.org
• www.wll.org

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Thank you for your attention
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Don Heirman Biography
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• Donald Heirman is president of Don HEIRMAN
  Consultants, training, standards, and educational
  electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) consultation
  corporation.  Previously he was with Bell
  Laboratories for over 30 years in many EMC roles
  including Manager of Lucent Technologies (Bell
  Labs) Global Product Compliance Laboratory, which
  he founded, and where he was in charge of the
  Corporations major EMC and regulatory test
  facility and its participation in ANSI accredited
  standards and international EMC standardization
  committees.  He chairs, or is a principal
  contributor to, US and international EMC
  standards organizations including ANSI ASC C63
  (chairman), the Institute of Electrical and
  Electronics Engineers, and the International
  Electrotechnical Commissions (IEC) International
  Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR)
  where in October 2007 he was named the chair of
  CISPR moving from he previous role as its
  subcommittee A chairman responsible for CISPR
  Publication 16.  He is a member of the IECs
  Advisory Committee on EMC (ACEC) and the
  Technical Management Committee of the US National
  Committee of the IEC.  In November 2008 he was
  presented with the prestigious IEC Lord Kelvin
  award at the IEC General Meeting in Sao Paulo,
  Brazil.  This is the highest award in the IEC and
  recognizes Dons many contributions to global
  electrotechnical standardization in the field of
  EMC.  He is a life Fellow of the IEEE and a life
  member of the IEEE EMC Society (EMCS) and member
  of its Board of Directors, chair of its technical
  committee on EMC measurements, past EMCS
  president, newly elected vice president for
  standards, and past chair of its standards
  development committee.  He is also past president
  of the National Cooperation for Laboratory
  Accreditation (NACLA). He is also past president
  of the IEEE Standards Association (SA), past
  member of the SA Board of Governors and past
  member of the IEEEs Board of Directors and
  Executive Committee. He is also the Associate
  Director for Wireless EMC at the University of
  Oklahoma Center for the Study of Wireless EMC. 
  He has presented numerous workshops, tutorials,
  and technical papers internationally and is
  listed in several Whos Who publications.  He is
  a retired Commander in the US Navy