Architecture & Communication Standards

GridWise Alliance and Stakeholder Engagement

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has created a vision for transforming the nation’s energy system—from central generation down to customer appliances and equipment—into a collaborative network filled with information and a myriad of market-based opportunities. Researchers at PNNL have been exploring how to integrate the traditional elements of supply and demand, transmission and distribution with new technologies such as distributed generation, energy storage, and customer load management, using information to make them function as a complex, integrated system.

The GridWise^TM Alliance, a new public-private partnership, is focused on bringing together key stakeholders to support this vision for the future. The Alliance and the Department of Energy will build on PNNL’s early work to bring the energy system into the information age, helping keep energy affordable, bringing new and cleaner technologies to market, and enhancing national security.

Project Resources

Review Meeting Presentation

Gridwise^TM Stakeholder and Institutional Adoption. Presented at the Electric Distribution Transformation Annual Program and Peer Review Meeting, October 2003, in Coronado, CA.


Project Report/Publication

GridWise^TM Benefits


GridWise Architecture Board

Website

Contractor: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory