USA, Europe collaborate on smart grid standards
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portunity to greatly expand that research collaboration, according to the NRF. Faculty and students in Singapore and MIT have benefited greatly from the collaboration, both academically and culturally. “I figured the SMA and my involvement in Singapore in general may enhance my own development as well as possibly moving my own research ideas forward,” said Fitzgerald. “It turns out that I have met close collaborators and friends; understand Asia more than I did before, of course, in particular, Singapore; and have now been able to launch a big collaborative vision that I could not have done without SMA and SMART. I now realize that SMA and SMART are glimpses of what collaborative innovation will look like in the future.” For more information on the SMART Center and opportunities for involvement, visit http://smart.mit.edu. Kendra Redmond
innovation center focused on translating basic research into commercialized applications, preferably in Singapore, modeled after the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. The Innovation Center offers grants for prototyping and proof-of-concept experiments, mentoring by volunteers from the Singapore business community, and educational entrepreneurship programs. The SMART Center grew out of an ongoing relationship between MIT and Singapore, which started with a letter of interest from then Dean of Engineering at MIT to then Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore in 1997. The Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) was formed in 1998 as an education and research collaboration involving MIT and the two research universities in Singapore, the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University, primarily in the areas of engineering and life sciences. The SMA is now winding down, but the creation of SMART provides an op-
chair of SG-CG. According to NIST’s George Arnold, the national coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability in the United States, the many facets of Smart Grid development—spanning multiple sectors of the economy and a wide range of stakeholders—make the standardization effort anything but business as usual, but this collaboration will advance efforts in the long run. To promote this transformation, governments on both sides of the Atlantic have taken a number of actions in recent years, including the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and Europe’s Directives 2009/72/EC and 2009/73/EC within the framework of the 3rd Package for the Internal Energy Market. This legislative effort has translated into a number of standards initiatives like the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards in the United States and a Smart Grid □ mandate in the EU.
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his fall, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the European Union’s (EU) Smart Grid Coordination Group (SG-CG) jointly announced their intention to work togeth
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