IntelliGrid Project Team Members
No single company could have provided the
expertise to address the diverse requirements that a project the scope
of IntelliGrid Architecture entails. To supply that expertise, a world-class team of
experts was assembled that brought with it extensive utility industry
and standards-making experience to define the requirements and
associated technical approach. Leading this team was GE Global
Research, GE’s corporate technology development center. In addition,
partner Lucent Technologies brought experience gained developing
“self-healing” and “service intelligent” network solutions to the
team, and Utilities Consulting International (UCI), the third partner,
has extensive experience and domain knowledge directly related to IntelliGrid Architecture concept including T&D, customer operations, power-market
operations, and communications infrastructure. EnerNex offered
proficiency in electric power system studies and analysis, utility
communication and automation, systems integration, SCADA security, and
technology analysis and transfer. SISCO (Systems Integration
Specialists) is a world leader in providing cost-effective standards
based communications and integrated solutions to the utility industry.
Hypertek provided consulting and guidance as EPRI’s technical advisor.
In addition, the team included participation and consulting from
multiple GE business units: GE Power Systems Energy Consulting, GE Multilin, and GE Network Reliability Products and Services. All team
members are widely recognized for their electric utility expertise,
play key roles in international standards organizations, and
complemented each other’s experience.
General Electric Company
GE is a diversified technology, media and
financial services company dedicated to creating products to improve
its customers’ lives. In particular, GE’s involvement in the power
industry is historical – dating back to Edison and it continues today
to provide innovative solutions for the power industry. For IntelliGrid Architecture
program, GE pulled experts from key businesses that serve the power
industry: GE Global Research, GE Consumer & Industrial (GE Multilin),
and GE Energy (GE Network Reliability Products and Services, and GE
Power Systems Energy Consulting). The GE Global Research Center staff
represents one of the nation’s most prestigious scientific and
engineering resources. The scientists and engineers at GRC provide
business and technical leadership on programs including the design and
implementation of real-time monitoring and diagnostics, sensor
development, and control of complex systems.
GE Energy’s Network Reliability Products and
Services (GE NRPS) offers end-to-end, modular IT network management
solutions for utilities and communications companies, including
management of energy, distribution, operations, engineering, network
assets and real-time control. NRPS is also a leader in the automation
of electrical generation, transmission, and distribution networks,
with expertise in the integration of IEDs into a wide variety of
utility communications. GE Power Systems Energy Consultants (GE PSEC)
provided intimate knowledge of grid and generation operations. GE
Consumer & Industrial’s GE Multilin is a world class provider of
protection, control, and monitoring devices for application in both
the industrial and utility marketplace.
GE wishes to thank the following people for
their efforts on IntelliGrid Architecture program: Program Manager Peter Sanza
(Global Research), Principle Investigator Mark Adamiak (GE Multilin),
Walter Dixon III (Global Research), Grant Gilchrist (GE NRPS), Jamshid
Sharif-Askary (GE NRPS), Louie Powell (GE PSEC), Mike Reichard (GE
PSEC), and Dr. Rui Zhou (Global Research).
Lucent
Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the
systems, services and software that drive next-generation
communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development,
Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and
voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new
revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling
them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's
customer base includes communications service providers, governments
and enterprises worldwide. With headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., and
32,500 employees worldwide, Lucent is a leading global supplier of
communications networking equipment, holding strong leadership
positions in Internet networking infrastructure for service providers,
optical networking, wireless networks and communications networking
support and services.
Lucent’s efforts on the IESCA program have been
led by Behrokh Samadi and Y.T. Wang.
Utilities Consulting International
Utility Consulting International (UCI), of
Cupertino, California provides consulting services to the utility
industry for the study, design, procurement, implementation, and
integration of information systems, computer-based control systems,
computer network and telecommunication systems for supporting the
various aspects of utility operations. These systems include those for
deregulation and marketing, transmission energy management,
distribution automation and management, substation automation, and
distributed energy resources. UCI also has brought to bear its
extensive experience in security for utility operations systems,
enterprise-wide system networking and integration as well as
communication protocols and standards including UCA (Utility
Communication Architecture), ICCP (InterControl Center Communications
Protocol), and IEC61850.
The UCI team was led by Frances Cleveland with
contributions from Nokhum Markushevich and Mark Lachman
Systems Integration Specialists
SISCO focuses on international
communications/integration standards and develops products to make the
implementation of standards based systems feasible. SISCO has
established itself as a world leader in providing cost-effective
standards based communications and integration solutions. Its software
is used in a wide variety of industries from electrical power
transmission, distribution and generation systems to manufacturing and
postal automation equipment. SISCO serves both end users and OEMs. In
addition to application development, systems integration, and
consulting, SISCO offers products and protocol source code for
international standards, such as the Utility Communications
Architecture (UCA™) per IEC61850, the Inter-control Center
Communications Protocol (ICCP) per IEC60870-6 TASE.2, the
Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS) per ISO9506 and Utility
Integration Bus (UIB) for integrating operations applications using
mainstream middleware per CIM and GID related IEC61970 standards.
SISCO’s efforts were led by John Gillerman with
contributions from Herb Falk.
EnerNex
EnerNex Corporation is an electric power
engineering consulting firm specializing in the development and
application of new electric power technologies. EnerNex provides
engineering and research services, along with software solutions and
customization, to electric utilities, government agencies, research
institutions, and end-use customers. EnerNex's key capabilities lie in
electric power system studies and analysis, utility communication and
automation, systems integration, SCADA security, and technology
analysis and transfer. EnerNex has a strong background in projects
that address both power and communication systems and has been a
strong advocate of harnessing the potential state of the art
technologies to optimize both utility and customer power systems.
Equipped with full understanding of the interplay between
communications systems, utility transmission and distribution
networks, and customer power systems, EnerNex brought expertise in
consumer functions such as real time pricing, demand response,
advanced metering, and power quality to IntelliGrid Architecture project.
EnerNex’s team was led by Erich Gunther with
contributions from Jeff Lamoree, Sandy Smith, and Jack King.
Hypertek
Hypertek, Inc. is a consulting organization
specializing in the development and application of technologies that
principally involve the communications between applications and smart
electronic devices. We seek to maintain a workload mix of 40% research
into communications standards and technical aspects of business
development and 60% implementation of hardware and software tasks that
use communications standards and components. Hypertek believes that
this distribution of its resources maximizes the value of tools that
we can bring to projects of both kinds. Hypertek brought its
experience in utility communications standards (ANSI C12, UCA 2,
ASHRAE) and hardware and software development to bear on this
architecture project as the technical advisor to EPRI’s program
manager. Assistance was provided in participating in the architecture
development, and, reviewing and assessing documents and plans.
Hypertek’s team was represented by Dr. Martin
J. Burns
