As demands for electricity and clean energy grow and extreme weather threats increase, the legacy power grid requires interoperable and easily adoptable technology to prevent catastrophic outages and provide safe, reliable, and affordable service. In 2021, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) completed two synergistic American National Standards to reduce grid failures, contain electricity costs, and monetize demand response. The standards enable better grid sensors and orchestration of electric loads using a simple information model designed to (1) improve electricity generation, transmission, distribution, storage, and end use while (2) accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and resilient local power using batteries and other distributed energy resources.
The ANSI/SCTE 267 2021 grid management standard orchestrates electricity demand from responsive loads relative to supply to manage costs and carbon emissions and improve the efficiency, carrying capacity, and life span of power generation and delivery infrastructures. The ANSI/SCTE 271 2021 grid...