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NIST releases final Smart Grid Framework 2.0

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An updated roadmap for the Smart Grid is now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which recently finished reviewing and incorporating public comments into the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0. Just as its draft version did, the final 2.0

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Policy Options for Expanding and Modernizing the US Power Grid

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The US will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and difficult, according to a new Duke University analysis. Ownership of electric transmission in the US is fragmented. Click to enlarge.

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Sandia, national lab partners studying vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

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We have been studying potential impacts to the power grid. Now that this review has been completed, the Sandia team has received follow-on funding to tackle some of these gaps. We are focused on larger impacts to critical infrastructure as we electrify more of the transportation industry. doi: 10.3390/en15113931.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Katherine DeEmidio Ledesma, Dragos A 2021 review of cyber vulnerabilities in water systems, published in the journal Water , highlights the converging factors of increasingly AI-enhanced and internet-connected tools running more and bigger drinking water and wastewater systems. These attacks were not extremely sophisticated.” and the E.U.’s

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UC Riverside study to evaluate best ways to achieve California’s 100% renewable energy target

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State officials have approved requirements for the power grid to consist of 50% renewable energy by 2030. California has a largely untapped available renewable resource – biogas from dairies, landfills and wastewater treatment plants, which can be conditioned or upgraded to renewable natural gas.

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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is shown with both UK and French grid mixes. Renault also had a panel of experts review the report the ensure full compliance with ISO 14 030 norms related to LCA; the company also published that review report. Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential (kg Sb equivalent). consumption leading to resources and abiotic depletion.

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NIST Releases EPRI Report on Smart Grid Development; Priorities, Standards, Architecture

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Smart Grid electric transportation applications summary communications diagram. The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released for public review a report that identifies issues and proposes priorities for developing technical standards and an architecture for a US Smart Grid.

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