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AMI EnvironmentalismAMI Environmentalism

              Wayne Longcore,

Director of Enterprise Architecture and Standards, Consumers Energy

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Environmentalism• Consumers in a modern world• The world is not flat• The changing environment• Sustainability• From person to person• Who is doing something about IT• What can be done and when• Why, and How to recycle

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Consumers in a modern world• Serving Michigan families and

businesses since 1886• We provide electric and natural gas

service to 6.5 million people• 8,000 employees• Serving all 68 Lower Peninsula

counties• Company motto: “Count on Us”

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The world is not flat

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The changing environment• The AMI Systems “Environment”• Create a Utility based standards policy that:

– Protects the current generation of utility investment– Stabilize standards through convergence– Allows for open and appropriate participation– Create a Win-Win for Utility and Vendors– Is sustainable– Push technology along market adoption

• Based on – Openness, separation of duties, generational compliance,

backwards compatibility, layered approach

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Sustainability

• The value of the network

• The importance of common standards

• If you build it (the network) they will come

• End to end data model

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From person to person

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Who is doing something about IT

• AMI-Enterprise• HAN (OpenHAN , OpenSG, ZigBee /

HomePlug)• SAE (J2293 Task Force – PHEV standards)• NIST• GWAC• OpenADR• IEC CIM – 61968, 61850…

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What can be done and whenParticipate in standards making body:

Example: AMI-Enterprise– Participation in a sub-team

• Services Requirements Documentation• Use Case sub-team• Services Definition sub-team

– Reviewing and Contributing• Deliverables are posted on smartgridipedia.org• Utilizing deliverables in RFPs

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Why, and How to recycle

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Use what others have already created

• Add your items to the model

• Don’t always create new (make updates)