ETSI Approves Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP)
for Grid Technologies
Sophia Antipolis, France – January 18, 2012
– ETSI has recently published two specifications for Smart Grid that
will help drive the development and deployment of open, interoperable
smart grid technologies internationally. As
the smart grid evolves, it will become commonplace for utilities to
cooperate with grid-aware systems and devices to reduce power usage
intelligently, giving commercial, industrial and municipal users reduced
rates in exchange for lower consumption while increasing grid
reliability and the use of renewable energy sources. Automated demand
response, peak load management, and other programs can mean significant
cost savings for commercial and residential customers. This is why it is
important that vendors work together through open standards to increase
the market for compatible products and technologies. Standards-based
smart grid devices and systems can monitor and save energy, lower costs,
improve productivity, enhance service, quality, safety, and
convenience, and help in the transformation to a more energy efficient
future and smarter electricity grid. The two OSGP specifications that originated with ESNA and were published by ETSI for global use are:- Group
specification GS OSG 001: Open Smart Grid Protocol. Produced by the
ETSI Open Smart Grid Industry Specification Group, this application
layer protocol can be used with multiple communication media.
- Technical
specification TS 103 908: Powerline Telecommunications (PLT); BPSK
Narrow Band Power Line Channel for Smart Metering Applications. This
specification defines a high-performance narrow band powerline channel
for control networking in the smart grid that can be used with multiple
smart grid devices. It was produced by the ETSI Technical Committee for
Powerline Telecommunications (TC PLT).
"As
the effects of globalization permeate further and accelerate, ETSI is
providing businesses and the industry with efficient solutions for
accessing and developing new and established world markets via
standardization," said Luis Jorge Romero, director general of ETSI. "ESNA
has been very active during the past year in the various Smart Metering
and Smart Grid standardisation activities across Europe as well as the
rest of the world. We are honoured to share this latest achievement with
OSGP being recognized by ETSI, and we anticipate sharing more
milestones reached with other leading standards organizations in the
coming year," said Bo Danielsen, president of ESNA and head of smart grid projects at SEAS-NVE, the largest consumer-owned utility in Denmark. "Industry's
involvement in standards development is critical as standards
contribute to innovation, enable interoperability, provide investment
security to clients and contribute to fostering global markets, and
moreover provide choice and investment security for our customers," said
Bastian Fischer, VP Industry Strategy Utilities Global Business Unit at
Oracle, ESNA board member and vice-chairman of the ETSI OSG Industry
Specification Group. "Oracle is uniquely positioned to deliver
mission-critical smart grid software applications that have been
engineered to work together in collaboration with our partners. ESNA's
success with ETSI will help ensure that Oracle and the smart grid
ecosystem will provide reliable solutions to utilities that are
complete, future proof, open, and cost-effective."
Notes for Editors
About ETSIETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadband and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European
Standards Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit
association whose more than 700 member companies and organizations,
drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents worldwide, determine its
work programme and participate directly in its work. For more
information please visit: www.etsi.org
About ESNAEnergy Services Network Association (ESNA) is an independent global, not-for-profit association under Dutch law. Members are utilities, software, hardware and service providers, and solution integrators sharing a common goal
and vision for promoting open standards for energy demand side
management, smart grid and smart metering systems. The association
promotes the adoption of the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) and related
services and infrastructure, based on Networked Energy Services (NES),
together with the value-added applications for secure, reliable and
cost-effective automatic meter management, smart grid management,
billing, CRM, CIS and other applications.More information about ESNA can be found at www.esna.org or by emailing secr@esna.org.
About OSGP
In
2010, ESNA members announced their intent to publish OSGP as an open
standard, enabling independent implementation of interoperable meters
and other smart grid devices from multiple vendors on the same network.
Built on open ISO/IEC and IEEE standards, OSGP adds additional security
and reliability services necessary to properly network and manage
devices in the smart grid. The OSGP standard will ensure reliability,
robustness, and efficiency of the smart grid, and as applications are
deployed such as point-of-use monitoring and control of power usage, it
will enable utilities to reduce peak loads and pass on energy cost
savings to consumers. In addition to building OSGP-compliant solutions,
utilities can better avoid vendor lock-in and purchase best-in-class
products to achieve better ROI.
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Association Secretary, ESNA
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