WASHINGTON--The Department of Energy will be pushing out $4.5 billion for smart-grid investments as part of the federal government's economic stimulus plan, but unless smart-grid standards are ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The IEEE will kick off an effort to define standards for a smart electric grid in a meeting hosted at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. on June 3-5. The IEEE 2030 group aims ...

Smart grids apply advanced automated control technologies to the power grid. By ensuring that the various power grid components interact appropriately, smart grids enhance power quality, grid ...

A set of five foundational technical standards for Smart Grid interoperability and security have undergone a cybersecurity review by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and have been ...

The electric car you park in your garage should be able to plug into chargers anywhere in the country, thanks to work by the Smart Grid Interoperability The electric car you park in your garage should ...

The threat of the government stepping in and legislating the smart grid standards-making process was a useful tool for helping the process along, said Raj Vaswani, CTO of smart grid networking firm ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has advised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that it has identified five "foundational" sets of standards for Smart Grid ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Worth an estimated $20 billion this year, the Smart Grid market has attracted the attention of every major networking vendor, including Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Google. These vendors are pushing for ...