IEEE, the world's largest professional
organization advancing technology
for humanity, has announced
updates to four standards and a new
standards-development project that
provide new communications and
operational capabilities needed for
smart grid worldwide. The new
standards activities are among the
latest smart grid contributions to come
from the IEEE Standards Association
(IEEE-SA), which has a portfolio of 100
standards and standards in
development pertaining to this vitally
important industry.
"IEEE is continually updating its
standards and developing new
standards to address the needs of
utilities around the world as they
integrate new technologies and
upgrade their systems to meet current
and future operational and service
objectives for smart grids," said Bill
Ash, strategic program manager, IEEESA.
"These latest IEEE standards
activities underscore the importance
for new standards to support the
growth and evolution of the smart grid
industry globally."
The latest IEEE smart grid standards
include:
IEEE 1815™-2012: Standard for
Electric Power Systems
Communications - Distributed
Network Protocol (DNP3) - specifies
the DNP3 protocol structure,
functions and interoperable
application options for operation on
communications media used in utility
automation systems. It revises the
earlier standard, IEEE 1815™-2010, by
updating its protocols to address and
help mitigate current and emerging
digital cyber security hazards that
could affect the communications
systems used in smart grids and other
infrastructure, including power,
energy and water systems. IEEE
1815™-2012 is available for purchase at
the IEEE Standards Store.
IEEE 1366™-2012: IEEE Guide for
Electric Power Distribution Reliability
Indices - defines the distribution
reliability nomenclature and indices
that utilities and regulators can use to
characterize the reliability of
distribution systems, substations,
circuits and grid sections. It also
defines the factors affecting the
calculation of the indices. The standard
revises the earlier standard, IEEE
1366™-2003, by including new indices
that can be used today and in the future
on smart grid and other distribution
systems. It also updates several
definitions that were used in the
previous standard. IEEE 1366™-2012 is
available for purchase at the IEEE
Standards Store.
IEEE 1377™-2012: IEEE Standard
for Utility Industry Metering
Communication Protocol Application
Layer (End Device Data Tables) -
provides common structures for
encoding data that is transmitted over
advanced metering infrastructure and
smart grids. It can be used to transmit
data between smart meters, home
appliances, network nodes that use the
IEEE 1703™ LAN/WAN messaging
standard, and utility enterprise
collection and control systems. The
standard revises IEEE-1377™-1977. It
is co-published as ANSI C12.19 and
MC12.19. IEEE 1377™-2012 is
available for purchase at the IEEE
Standards Store.
IEEE C37.104™-2012: IEEE Guide
for Automatic Reclosing of Circuit
Breakers for AC Distribution and
Transmission lines - describes
automatic reclosing practices for
transmission and distribution line
circuit breakers, establishes the
benefits of automatic reclosing, and
details the considerations utilities
must use when applying automatic
reclosing technologies for proper
coordination with other transmission
and distribution system controls. It
revises the IEEE C37.104™-2002
standard by incorporating new smart
grid communications technologies
that may affect utility automatic
reclosing practices. IEEE C37.104™-
2012 is available for purchase at the
IEEE Standards Store.
Additionally, IEEE-SA has approved
a new standards development project
to categorize and describe applications
that are being considered as part of
smart distribution system
development and distribution
management systems for smart grids.
The IEEE P1854™ - Guide for Smart
Distribution Applications will
categorize the applications, describe
their critical functions, define their
most important components and
provide examples. The terminology
and descriptions used for these systems
have previously not been standardized,
which makes it difficult to develop
specifications for these functions as
part of planning and developing smart
distribution systems. IEEE P1854™
will fill that standards gap. |