1. UtilityAMI General Meeting
October 22, 2008
Erich W. Gunther
UCAIug Board Member

2. Agenda 9:00 – Introductions 9:15 – Terry Mohn
9:30 - UCAIug / OpenSG Overview
9:45 - Task Force Reports
10:15 - Work planning / general discussion
10:30 - Break
10:45 - OpenHAN TF Meeting
Noon - EPRI Lunch and Tour
2:00 - AMI-Network TF Meeting
3:30 - Break
5:00 - Adjourn

3. Open Smart Grid Subcommittee
Organization and Overview
Erich W. Gunther
UCAIug Board Member

4. UCA International Users Group
Incorporated in June 2002 as a 501(c)(3) Corporation
Organization supports individual and corporate members
111 corporate members
Members from 29 countries
Hundreds of “friends of UCAIug” – members of our various informative list servers

5. UCAIug Mission (from charter)
The mission of the UCA International Users Group is to enable utility integration through the deployment of open standards by providing a forum in which the various stakeholders in the utility industry can work cooperatively together as members of a common organization to:
Influence, select, and/or endorse open and public standards appropriate to the utility market based upon the needs of the membership.
Specify, develop and/or accredit product/system-testing programs that facilitate the field interoperability of products and systems based upon these standards.
Implement educational and promotional activities that increase awareness and deployment of these standards in the utility industry.

7. Coordination with External Groups Close relationships with SDO’s, research organizations, and others – formal and informal
Category D liaison with IEC TC 57
EPRI
IEEE Power and Energy Society Intelligent Grid Coordinating Committee (PES IGCC)
DOE GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC)
DOE Modern Grid Initiative
NIST EISA 2007 DEWG’s
ZigBee Alliance
ZB/HP – Wayne Longcore – looking for a liaison
GridWise Alliance
Interoperability – Ron Ambrosio - IBM
Implementation – Rob Wilheit - KEMA
CCET – Texas – interop standards
Utility Standards Board – need to coordinate
Smart Energy Alliance – Doug Housman
UNITE
Many others

8. Board of Directors
The Organization members elect a Board of Directors. Each corporate representative can cast one vote. Members of the Board of Directors serve for a period of three years each. The periods of service are staggered so that each year one third of the board members are elected.
The Board makes major decisions and directs key activities. The Board has nine positions, six are utilities (end users) and three are vendors or others.
The Board members (individuals) are allowed to hold their seats even if their eligibility status changes (e.g., they move from a user to vendor company) during their tenure unless they are removed or replaced by Board action.
The Board meets yearly to elect the Board Chairman and the operational officers and review progress of the Organization. Board responsibilities include:
Establishing/approval of development direction based on member input.
Approving the annual budget.
Monitoring Organization progress vs. targets.
Approving committee co-chairs recommended by the respective Committees/Subcommittees.
Recommending Bylaws.
Electing and advising operating staff.

9. Current Board Dan Nordell - Xcel Energy Stephen Dalyai - QEI Inc.
Mike Ingram - TVA
Mark Simon - ComEd (Exelon)
Thierry Lefebvre - RTE
Clemens Hoga - Siemens
John Burger - AEP
Erich W. Gunther - EnerNex Corporation
Wayne Longcore - Consumers Energy

10. OpenSG Subcommittee Organization
OpenSG is a administrative subcommittee responsible for sponsoring working groups as needed to address smart grid related requirements and interoperability guidelines development in a technology independent manner
UtilitySG is an interest group under the OpenSG subcommittee
The UtilitySG IG is a utility or energy service provider driven activity
It acts as a forum for utilities to share ideas and lessons learned
It provides guidance to the OpenSG SC on the need for new working groups to develop SG requirements

11. Present OpenSG WG/TF Membership
Join the UCAIug at:
Get web site user ID at:
Join mailing lists at:
List Subscribers as of September 21, 2008
AMI Enterprise Task Force (63 subscribers)
AMI Security (131 subscribers)
AMI Network (new – no data yet)
UtilityAMI Guests (75 subscribers)
UtilityAMI HAN TF (152 subscribers)
UtilityAMI Members (90 subscribers)

12. UtilityAMI Definition, Mission and Goal
UtilityAMI is …A forum to define serviceability, security and interoperability guidelines for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and demand responsive infrastructure (DRI) from a utility / energy service provider perspective.

13. UtilityAMI Definition, Mission and Goal
UtilityAMI will develop high level policy statements that can be used to facilitate efficient requirements and specification development using a common language that minimizes confusion and misunderstanding between utilities and vendors. UtilityAMI will also coordinate with other industry groups as required to efficiently carry out its mission.

14. UtilityAMI Definition, Mission and Goal
UtilityAMI has a goal to utilize the UtilityAMI work products to influence the vendor community to produce products and services that utilities need to support their AMI and DRI initiatives.

15. UtilityAMI Tasks Glossary and Common Language Framework
A universal AMI glossary of terms and definitions
A framework for technology capability evaluation
A common, minimum requirements definition document
Modular Meter Interface – Transferred to OpenAMI Policy for modular communication interfaces in meters
Security – AMI-SEC Task Force (under UtiliSec WG) Security issues and their relationship to business needs
Consumer Interface – OpenHAN Task Force Policy for Customer Portal interface to customer end user appliances
AMI Network Interface – AMI-Network Task Force Policy for AMI network to MDMD/head end & HAN interfacing
Back Office Interface – AMI-Enterprise Task Force Policy for MDMS to enterprise back office system connectivity
General Issues Forum – Information Exchange NEW –

16. UtilityAMI 2008 HAN SRS
Promotes open standards-based HANs that are interoperable
Provides the vendor community with a common set of principles and requirements around which to build products
Ensures reliable and sustainable HAN platforms
Supports various energy policies in a variety of states, provinces, and countries
Empowers citizens with the information they need to make decisions on their energy use by enabling the vision of a home energy ecosystem

17. HAN SRS Ratification Vote Unanimous Mar 7, 2008
AEP
SCE
SDG&E
PG&E
Detroit Edison
FPL
BC Hydro
Entergy
Consumers Energy
CenterPoint Energy
Oncor
EDF
Endorsing Utilities:
Duke Energy Reliant Energy

18. Task Force Update OpenHAN – main work complete
AMI-Enterprise – major effort underway
AMI-SEC – major effort underway
AMI-Network – first meeting Oct 22, 2008
UtilitySG Interest Group – proposed

19. UtilitySG Interest Group - Proposed
What is the problem we are trying to solve?
Need for general utility collaboration forum on smart grid development to minimize duplication of effort and manage expenses associated with industry participation
Scope
Share experiences on smart grid development
Smart Grid roadmap development
Smart Grid business case development
Share lessons learned
Provide guidance to OpenSG SC

20. Benefits of UtilitySG under UCAIug
Well established, non profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on Utility Communication Architecture related activities
Existing by-laws, charter, operating rules
Mitigate anti-trust concerns
Established information sharing portals
Access to all other UCAIug WG materials and expertise – e.g. CIM UG, UG, UtiliSec, AMI family of WG’s and TF’s

21. Questions?
For any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us
Note: Full participation requires UCAIug membership – join at
Erich W. Gunther
EnerNex Corporation
Wayne R. Longcore
Consumers Energy

22. Agenda 9:00 - Introductions 9:20 - UCAIug / OpenSG Overview
9:45 - Task Force Reports
10:15 - Work planning / general discussion
10:30 - Break
10:45 - OpenHAN TF Meeting
Noon - EPRI Lunch and Tour
2:00 - AMI-Network TF Meeting
3:30 - Break
5:00 - Adjourn

23. General Discussion Lessons Learned Work planning Other discussion
Utility requests for information – publish on web site
Regulatory recover mechanisms
Business case elements – where’s the beef?
Vendor / Technology evaluation methods
Presentation from Doug Housman
Work planning
What are we missing?
Other discussion

24. OpenHAN Meeting Feedback on the SRS What should OpenHAN be focused on?
How is it being used?
Any fundamental flaws and ommissions detected so far?
Maintenance items?
Endorsements to add
What should OpenHAN be focused on?
New task?
Interaction with ZigBee / HomePlug
Interaction with other HAN groups

25. Agenda 9:00 - Introductions 9:20 - UCAIug / OpenSG Overview
9:45 - Task Force Reports
10:15 - Work planning / general discussion
10:30 - Break
10:45 - OpenHAN TF Meeting
Noon - EPRI Lunch and Tour
2:00 - AMI-Network TF Meeting
3:30 - Break
5:00 - Adjourn

26. AMI-Network Meeting
Purpose, Scope, Goals

27. Agenda 9:00 - Introductions 9:20 - UCAIug / OpenSG Overview
9:45 - Task Force Reports
10:15 - Work planning / general discussion
10:30 - Break
10:45 - OpenHAN TF Meeting
Noon - EPRI Lunch and Tour
2:00 - AMI-Network TF Meeting
3:30 - Break
5:00 - Adjourn