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Board Continues Review of Smart Grid Assets

The East River Board continued to review appropriate steps for East River and its members to define, evaluate and proceed with further expansion on existing smart grid assets.

For over twenty-five years, East River and its members have invested in smart grid technologies through load management, a strong telecommunications network designed for operational data, control, and voice applications, SCADA and AMI.

The goal is to expand these technologies into a new Smarter Grid that will maximize appropriate access and use of information by East River, its members and end-consumers.

The Road Map that will help us meet this goal will involve evaluating options for meter data management, GIS applications, coordinated smart grid operations, rates and an emphasis on educating, communicating and marketing the smarter grid.

At the March Managers’ Advisory Committee meeting, a Smarter Grid Roadmap was adopted defining a federated approach between East River and its members. Five working groups were identified with separate tasks to define and shape the framework for next steps of smarter grid investments for 2011 and beyond.

There will be challenges that require not only patience, but also a thorough look at the way East River and its members have done things in the past with the ultimate goal of determining how to best capture this technology with the most value at the least cost.