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IEEE Smart Grid has the resources and organization that enables it to execute its strategy to meet the needs of its stakeholders and fulfill its mission and vision. IEEE members and nonmembers in the global power, energy, communications and IT/computing industries, as well as government and academia, are encouraged to participate in the IEEE Smart Grid Initiative.

Because of the many relationships currently in place, it is assumed that most of the initial contacts regarding IEEE Smart Grid will be done directly involving a combination of email, phone and face to face conversations. Volunteers are supported in all contacts and follow up by IEEE staff. It will be incumbent on all volunteers to communicate their activity to the Project Manager.

IEEE Smart Grid will engage its volunteers in an array of different subcommittees, including:

The IEEE Smart Grid Education Committee is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Find and create content, generate content to promote – Understand where the gaps are in education and help generate that content.
  • Coordinate the generation and presentation of new Smart Grid educational content including webinars, Q&As, interviews, etc.
  • Be at the forefront of Smart Grid educational offerings  and special sessions at IEEE Smart Grid related conferences
  • Education can include K-12, post graduate and professional development- ranging from the SMART Competition to professionals and executives that have a need for learning, training and education

Scope

  • Promote Smart Grid activities of all IEEE Organizational Units by encouraging content, contributions and participation.
  • Promote the output of all IEEE Smart Grid committees.
  • Ensure IEEE Smart Grid is at the top of the minds of the public and with editors through daily pitching and offering of our collective expertise for comment via social media, the IEEE Smart Grid portal, trade journals, news outlets, magazines, etc.
  • Educate key audiences about IEEE Smart Grid through continual coverage.
  • Increase global visibility of IEEE Smart Grid with a marketing emphasis.

Goals

  • Make contact with lead Marketing lead in each IEEE Organizational Unit, establish communications with them.
  • Educate key audiences about IEEE Smart Grid through continual coverage via portal development and usage, use of social media and ongoing portal refreshes.
  • Increase global Smart Grid community via its marketing channels including the LinkedIn Group, Twitter, e-Newsletter, Technical Community and web portal.
  • Benchmark and monitor awareness and continue public outreach.
  • Ensure IEEE is top of mind with editors through daily pitching and offering IEEE for comment.

IEEE Smart Grid Operational Committees play a key role in the Initiative. Each committee will have a Chair. Committee volunteers may volunteer to do a mini election within their committees to select a Committee Chair or the Committee Chair may be appointed by Chair of IEEE Smart Grid. Committee volunteers will serve two year terms beginning on May 1. The Committee Chair will be responsible for appointing volunteers to serve on the Committee and will work with the Project Manager to achieve this. The Committees will be comprised of approximately 8 to 12 members.

Operational Committees will have the following primary responsibilities:
Meet on a regular monthly/bi-weekly basis in an effort to:

  1. Identify Smart Grid related content
  2. Promote existing Smart Grid related content
  3. Encourage multi-Organizational Unit participation
  4. Make contact with lead person in each IEEE Organizational Unit, establish communications with them
  5. Connect expertise back to the IEEE Smart Grid community to facilitate advancements in Smart Grid transformation

Volunteers have the option to sit on any of the following Operational Committees:

  1. Education
  2. Marketing
  3. Meetings & Conferences
  4. Policy Technical Support
  5. Publications
  6. R&D
  7. Standards

Each Committee is distinct in its own way, but also serves as a feeder to other committees for content and collaboration.

Scope

  • Promote and support IEEE Smart Grid newsletter by providing article, special issues and content. 
  • Bring disciplne to the understanding of smart grid domains and areas
  • Support Smart Grid related articles in existing publications and explore special issues in for example, IEEE Spectrum, Organizational Unit publications.

Goals

  • Socialze and promote smart grid domains and areas
  • Support all Organizational Unit are participating in special issues.  
  • Review and identify related Smart Grid publications being produced by existing IEEE OUs and give them visibility by selective publication in Smart Grid Newsletter. 
  • Portal interface to Xplore – find abstracts of smart grid related articles. 
  • Support otherCommittee for development of new products, for example: support exploring potential new collaborative products such as an annual “Best of Compendium”. 
  • Make contact with Publications lead in each IEEE Organizational Unit, establish communications with them.

Scope

  • Engage in identifying emerging pivotal R&D areas in the Smart Grid related domain and engage the broader IEEE societies in all pertinent areas for collaboration. 
  • Support and collaborate with public/private enterprises to assess priority areas and disseminate Smart Grid and sustainable energy research and implementation strategies.

Goals

  • Evaluate Smart Grid and related technology road maps to relate technology developments in the IEEE Organizational Units.
  • Look at technology roadmaps, identify needs and directions going on, want a view of the technical landscape and direction. 
  • Survey the R&D activities of all IEEE Organizational Units involved in and collaborate – Technical Activities/Emerging Technologies/Standards contact – liaise and be active with those people from each Organizational Unit. Find out what everyone is doing and promote it – challenge them to represent what is going on in the R&D portions of all IEEE Smart Grid participating Organizational Units – survey and promote.
  • Initiate collaborations where there are gaps – identify a research direction/need – identify opportunities to collaborate and fill gaps. 
  • Make contact with lead R&D lead in each IEEE Organizational Unit, establish communications with them.

Scope

  • Focus on new technologies that are close to adoption and deployment
  • Interact with Smart Grid stakeholders (IEEE and non-IEEE) on inter-disciplinary technical topics
  • Closely collaborate with the IEEE Smart Grid R&D Committee on tracking technologies that are becoming mature from a research perspective
  • Closely collaborate with IEEE-Standards Association (SA), absorbing the scope of the existing IEEE Smart Grid Standards Committee

Goals

Technical Area

  • Track technical development of new technologies that are close to adoption and deployment
  • Interact with IEEE and non-IEEE stakeholders on inter-disciplinary technical topics
  • Coordinate with the IEEE Future Directions Committee (FDC) on Smart Grid and inter-disciplinary initiatives, e.g. Internet of Things, Big Data, Cyber Security, etc.
  • Work with IEEE Smart Grid R&D Committee to track the evolutionary changes in the Smart Grid as R&D approaches the implementation and deployment stage

Standards Area

  • Track the present standards to make sure they are current and up-to-date as far as the existing technologies are concerned.
  • Look ahead in the short term to prepare for the incremental evolution of the standards to keep track with the evolving Smart Grid reality
  • Make contact with lead Standards person in each IEEE Organizational Unit
  • Promote Smart Grid related standards
  • Facilitate transition from R&D to standardization and commercialization
  • Provide early guidelines for standard development as the R&D work is becoming mature
  • Coordinate with the IEEE SA on necessary changes in existing standards, as well as, forecast future standard developments that may be necessary

IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee
The Steering Committee decides on the priorities and manages the general course of its operations. The committee will work with staff to provide leadership to the Initiative and keep the effort moving forward on schedule. The Committee is responsible for strategic directions and development of goals and product development for the Initiative.

The IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee will be comprised of the Chair and leaders from each representative organizational unit. Currently, the following IEEE organizational units have representation on the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee:


The Steering Committee’s responsibilities include:

  • Help recruit volunteers to participate in various committees
  • Approve campaign policies and procedures
  • Serve as advocates for IEEE Smart Grid
  • Participate in regular committee conference calls

Scope

  • Support and manage smart grid related conferences and workshops

Goals

  • Organize meeting and conferences based on relevant smart grid topics
  • Outreach to all IEEE Smart Grid collaborators to identify and promote their meetings
  • Partner with other IEEE societies and Organizational Units to schedule joint smart grid conferences

To join as a member of any of the IEEE Smart Grid Committees, please contact the IEEE Smart Grid Project Managers Abira Altvater and Martina Soliman at Abira Altvater and Martina Soliman.