At its open meeting today, FERC adopted a Smart Grid Policy Statement. Highlights include:
The policy statement encourages the early development by industry of smart grid standards to:
* Ensure the cybersecurity of the grid;
* Provide two-way communications among regional market operators, utilities, service providers and consumers;
* Ensure that power system operators have equipment that allows them to operate reliably by monitoring their own systems as well as neighboring systems that affect them; and
* Coordinate the integration into the power system of emerging technologies such as renewable resources, demand response resources, electricity storage facilities and electric transportation systems.
Importantly, the policy statement also explains that by adopting these standards for smart grid technologies, FERC will not interfere with any state's ability to adopt whatever advanced metering or demand response program it chooses. In adopting this policy, FERC continues to abide by the Federal Power Act's jurisdictional boundaries between federal and state regulation of rates, terms and conditions of transmission service and sales of electricity.
The policy will take effect 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.
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