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Category Archives: Insightful Reads
Insightful Reads – March 2013
Here are some interesting standards-related articles that have crossed our desktops that we thought were worth sharing. Hope you enjoy! Six Organizations that Influence Grid Modernization — Sam Sciacca, an active senior member in the IEEE and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in the area of utility automation, discusses organizations that are shaping the landscape of [...]
Insightful Reads – February 2013
Here are some interesting standards-related articles that have crossed our desktops that we thought were worth sharing. Hope you enjoy! Super Bowl Blackout: Was It Caused by Relay Device, or Human Error? — David Bassett, IEEE Senior member and member of the IEEE Standards Association and Power and Energy Society, provides insights about the cause of [...]
Setting Standards: The Benefits to Getting Involved
Sam Sciacca’s article, “Setting Standards: The Benefits to Getting Involved,” alerts young consulting-specifying engineers to the range of opportunities for personal and career growth that accompanies participation in the standards-setting process. Those benefits include access to knowledgeable colleagues to glean best practices to networking for career opportunities to exposure to industry stakeholders, all of which [...]
The Process of Setting Standards
Sam Sciacca’s article for Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE), “The Process of Setting Standards,” addresses how ideas become the basis for standards and the means by which standards are articulated, vetted and affirmed by consensus – the hallmark of the IEEE standards-setting process. The standards process is critical for consulting-specifying engineers to understand because standards address everything [...]
Industrials and the Utility: Standards for Interconnection Save Money
Industrial and large commercial facilities that make use of distributed energy resources (DER) for reliability and sustainability must interconnect those resources with the local electric utility due to a load-shedding agreement or power purchasing agreement with the local utility. The utility may need visibility and/or control functions inside the industrial facility’s substation. As Sam Sciacca [...]
For Communications Interop, Follow Protocols
Traditionally, industrial facilities have been islands unto themselves, employing communication protocols for plant control systems that met only the needs of a particular plant. In the smart grid era, however, industrial facility systems may need to communicate with the local utility, a service provider or their own renewable resource generation facility. IEEE Standard 1815, also [...]
Insightful Reads – April 2013