IEEE 1547
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Power & Energy
How To Manage Distributed Energy Resources More Effectively
What are Distributed Energy Resources? Distributed energy resources (DER) is the term used to describe the many types of energy generation and storage technologies that provide electric capacity or energy where it is needed. With smaller outputs than traditional generating resources like centralized power plants, DER systems are often sized…
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Power & Energy
How Can We Use ICT Standards For Sustainable Development?
What is Sustainable Development? Why is it Important? Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. When considering and discussing sustainability, people often first think of the environment – saving energy, reducing carbon footprints,…
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Connectivity & Telecom
IEEE Standards Used in Your Everyday Life
Technology has become an integral aspect of our everyday lives. From the internet to smart grid, and health care to transportation, technology standards are used in a variety of ways. IEEE standards enable many of these technologies, as well as those that have helped people cope with the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Connectivity & Telecom
What are Standards? Why are They Important?
Your smartphone’s alarm just went off. A new day begins. In the shower, you rock out with your Bluetooth speaker playing. Then you check and log your blood pressure and other vital signs on your personal health device. During breakfast, you browse the Internet using Wi-Fi. Before heading out, your…
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Power & Energy
Raising Standards for Renewables Integration in Ghana
It started with an interaction at an IEEE conference a little more than a year ago. An engineer from the Electricity Company of Ghana Ltd. stopped by the IEEE Conformity Assessment Program (ICAP) booth. We talked about his country’s energy landscape and goals, and we talked about IEEE standards and…
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Power & Energy
Taking IEEE 1547™ on a Road Show
Not only does the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) identify viable areas for standards creation, establish expertise in those areas and then create, publish and distribute standards around the world, it also works to help aid market adoption of those standards. A workshop series to explore the evolution of IEEE…
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3D
World Standards Day 2018 – Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ten years ago, no one held a miniature portable computer in their hands. But today, much of the world uses mobile phones as their primary means of access to the internet, online business, online shopping, and social media. Twenty years ago, everyone was beginning to worry about Y2K and the…
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Green Tech & Sustainability
IEEE 1547.1™ Pilot Demonstration Addresses Need for Distributed Energy Resources Interconnection Conformance
IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) approves new standard revision for DER Interconnection In the last quarter of 2017, the IEEE Conformity Assessment Program (ICAP) hosted a pilot demonstration at Clemson University with Duke Energy and inverter supplier ABB to commission a distributed energy resources (DER) interconnection to the grid per…
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Power & Energy
Standards Development for Energy Storage
Transmission and distribution systems were not historically engineered to accommodate energy storage, but a surge in rollout of the technology appears inevitable over the next decades. To help enable this aspect of the transition from the legacy to the next-generation electricity grid, standards development around energy storage has intensified. In…
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Green Tech & Sustainability
Sustaining the future through GREEN TECHNOLOGY
IEEE is always working to enhance our quality of life and our environment, and IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) is at the forefront in teaming with top industry experts to develop standards documents that support this goal. These consensus documents include assessments of products for impacts on the environment; Smart…