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Contact:
Stephanie Covert
OMG
+1-843-737 0637
pr@omg.org
Reps from IBM & PeoplePower to
Chair OMG's Smart Energy Working Group
Call to Participate: Next Meeting on June 22,
2011, Salt Lake City, UT
Needham, MA, USA - June 3, 2011 - Irv Badr, Senior
GoToMarket Manager, IBM and John Teeter, Chief Scientist,
PeoplePower have volunteered to co-chair OMG's® Smart
Energy Working Group (WG). The Smart Energy WG is inviting
anyone interested in smart grid and smart grid standards to
participate in their upcoming meeting to be held during
OMG's Technical Committee Meeting on June 22, 2011 in Salt
Lake City, UT.
At the OMG Technical Meeting in Washington, D.C. in
March, George Arnold, National Coordinator for Smart Grid
Interoperability, NIST, spoke to meeting attendees about the
importance of standards for energy, specifically smart grid.
Standards have played a key role in the explosive growth of
the internet and computer technology over the past two
decades. The nation's energy grid, by comparison, is behind
the times. George encouraged the group to apply its
expertise in developing interoperability standards that
aided the internet revolution to creating a standards
framework to enable a smart grid-enabled electricity system.
The Smart Energy Working Group will provide focus for OMG
member organizations that participate in energy related
activities. Interoperability and innovative support of
emerging business practices will motivate the working
group's focus and bring end-to-end clarity to the
standardization of targeted practices. At the Smart Energy
WG meeting in June, the group will work on developing a
standards roadmap and continue to work on a gap analysis to
identify which areas whould most benefit from standards
(either existing or needed).
"Some of the areas we'll be looking at in terms of
standards include Business Process Modeling and Enterprise
Architecture, which are significantly impacted during the
smart grid transformation process," said Irv Badr,
Senior GoToMarket Manager, IBM, co-chair, OMG's Smart Energy
Working Group.
"We are actively engaged in global Smart Grid
activities as we see the opportunity to leverage the new
energy infrastructure for significant growth," said
John Teeter, Chief Scientist, PeoplePower, co-chair, OMG's
Smart Energy Working Group.
The Smart Energy WG encourages organizations that have
interests in marketing energy solutions to participate,
brining their knowledge of use-cases and requirements.
Members that have internal sustainability initiatives within
their organizations and those implementing internal energy
management solutions are also welcomed. Organizations that
participated in the formative meeting of the Smart Energy WG
include IBM, PeoplePower, PrismTech, Washington State
University, EPRI, Grid Data, Real-Time Innovations and Open
Commons.
For more information and to register for the meeting,
visit http://www.omg.org/ut.
For membership information, contact Ken Berk at ken.berk@omg.org
or +1-781-444 0404. Exhibit space at the Technical Meeting
is available; contact event_marketing@omg.org.
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