The OpenADR Alliance Developing Interoperability Program for National Demand Response Standard

Over 30 members developing compliance program for interoperable Smart Grid products

Morgan Hill, CA, April 26 2011:  The OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of a Smart Grid standard known as Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) is showing significant progress in its goal to certify interoperable demand response products by the end of this year. With membership growing from 4 to 32 in six months, the OpenADR Alliance is experiencing enthusiastic support throughout the Smart Grid ecosystem.

Recognizing that Smart Grid standards are critically important for interoperability and to the development of interoperable products, the OpenADR Alliance recently issued two Requests for Proposals (RFPs) targeting companies that supply test tools and testing and certification programs through laboratories. The first RFP encourages vendors to submit bids to develop a test tool allowing companies to test OpenADR 2.0 compliant products. The second RFP encourages test labs to bid on providing conformity and interoperability testing and certification for OpenADR 2.0 compliant products. The OpenADR 2.0 compliance program will be based on the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Energy Interop Standards that will include OpenADR profiles. The testing and compliance program will follow the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel’s (SGIP) Test and Certification Committee’s (TCC) Interoperability Process Reference Manual (IPRM).

The OpenADR Alliance Technical Committee is also developing feature-sets and test cases for the OpenADR 2.0 standard that is nearing completion from the OASIS.. The OpenADR 2.0 standard builds on the successful 1.0 specification supported by over 60 companies worldwide.

“The landmark ruling from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that assigns equal value to ‘negawatts’ and megawatts in wholesale energy markets, reinforces the importance of OpenADR in American Smart Grid development,” said Mary Ann Piette, chairwoman of the OpenADR Alliance and research director for PIER Demand Response Research Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). “Members of the OpenADR Alliance are working quickly to get a testing and compliance program in place by the end of the year. This program will help the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the deployment of interoperable Smart Grid standards.”

[an error occurred while processing this directive]In the six months since the OpenADR Alliance launched, more than 32 members from the utility, non-profit, government and corporate organizations as well as individuals have joined the Alliance, demonstrating industry-wide support of the OpenADR standard. Major Alliance Sponsors and board members include: Honeywell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison. Contributor members include Aclara RF Systems, Convergence Wireless Inc., EnerNOC Inc., Gridata Inc., Ingersoll Rand-Trane, Intertek, IPKeys Technologies LLC, Johnson Controls, Pulse Energy, QualityLogic, Siemens, and TUV.  Adopter members include Consumers Energy and NV Energy. More than a dozen individual members have also signed up as part of the Alliance

“We are pleased with the level of industry support we’ve received for this important industry initiative,” said Barry Haaser, managing director, OpenADR Alliance.  “Interest and awareness of the OpenADR Alliance is growing rapidly through out the Smart Grid industry worldwide.”

About the OpenADR Alliance
OpenADR Alliance is fostering the development, adoption, and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standard through collaboration, education, training, testing, and certification. The OpenADR Alliance intends to work with related organizations such as the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB), Utilities Communications Architecture International User’s Group (UCAIug), Wi-Fi Alliance™, ZigBee Alliance™ and others as appropriate.

The OpenADR Alliance is open to all interested stakeholders sharing a common interest in facilitating and accelerating the use and adoption of the OpenADR standard for price- and reliability-based demand response. More information can be obtained at http://www.openadr.org/

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