[May 18, 2011]

May Issue of IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter Covers Smart Grid Investment Benefits, Maturation of Critical Technologies, Role of Network Interoperability, and Standards in Broadband over Power Line

IEEE (News - Alert), the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced the May edition of the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter is available online at: http://smartgrid.ieee.org/publications/smart-grid-newsletter.

The May issue of the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter presents these exclusive articles:

• Electric Power Research Institute Ups Estimates of Smart Grid's Investment Benefits
• Why Building Smart Grid Will be a Long-Term Project
• Network Interoperability Is Key to Success
• The Realities of IEEE 1901 Ratification

The IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter is written for individuals, businesses, industry analysts, media, and other organizations with an interest in Smart Grid and its related technologies. Subscribers benefit from real-world knowledge offered by today's leading Smart Grid innovators and practitioners. Contributing authors for the May issue include:

• Marcus Torchia, research manager of intelligent grid strategies at IDC (News - Alert) Energy Insights. Mr. Torchia has 15 years of experience helping utility end-users, technology vendors and service providers optimize technology and business planning decisions for intelligent grid initiatives. His experience informs his article, Network Interoperability is Key to Success;
• Co-authoring Why Building Smart Grid Will be a Long-Term Project:
  • George W. Arnold, national coordinator for Smart Grid interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Arnold has served as president of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA).
  • Wanda . Reder is chair of IEEE Smart Grid, immediate past-president for IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), and has served on the IEEE PES Governing Board since 2002. Ms. Reder is also a member of U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Electricity Advisory Committee, and vice president of the Power Systems Services Division at S&C Electric Company.

• IEEE Life Fellow Clark W. Gellings, also a fellow at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), discusses EPRI's new report that ups estimates of Smart Grid's investment benefits.
• Jean-Philippe Faure, chair of the IEEE P1901 Working Group, discusses how the ratification of the IEEE standard for delivery of broadband communications over power lines stands to trigger higher-volume production of a host of suitable low-cost appliances and networking systems. Mr. Faure is a member of both the IEEE-SA Standards Board and the IEEE Communications (News - Alert) Society (ComSoc) Standards Board, and an IEEE-SA representative to the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP).

An RSS feed of the monthly newsletter is also available: http://smartgrid.ieee.org/news-smart-grid-newsletter?format=feed&type=rss.

The IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter promotes greater understanding of critical issues and challenges that impact efforts to move Smart Grid from conception to reality, including power generation, transmission, and distribution, storage, technological advancement, renewables, infrastructure investment, funding, and R&D, standards, security, and communications.

For further details about the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter and information on all IEEE Smart Grid standards, publications, and conferences, please visit http://smartgrid.ieee.org/. Follow @ieeesmartgrid on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ieeesmartgrid. Join IEEE Smart Grid on LinkedIn (News - Alert): IEEE Smart Grid.

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