NIST Announces Smart Grid Advisory Committee Meeting

Today the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a notice in the Federal Register (77 FR 71169-71170) that their Smart Grid Advisory Committee would be holding a meeting on December 18^th and 19^th. Among other items to be addressed the Committee will receive presentations on cybersecurity. The actual agenda for the meeting will be published at some point in time on the NIST Smart Grid web site.

The meeting is open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Registration may be done by email (cuong.nguyen@nist.gov). Oral comments may be made at the meeting without further registration. People wishing to provide written comments should send them to nistsgfac@nist.gov.

NIST Smart Grid Advisory Committee Meeting

Today the National Institute of Standards and Technology published a notice in the Federal Register (76 FR 46279) that the Smart Grid Advisory Committee would be holding a public meeting in support of the preparation of their draft report on Smart Grid standards. The meeting will be held via teleconference on August 23rd.

The notice does not provide any details about which portions of the report will be discussed at this meeting. It does provide a link to the Committee web site where that information will be posted at some undisclosed future date. One area that is likely to be included in the discussion is the establishment of cybersecurity standards for the Smart Grid. The minutes from last fall’s meeting specifically noted that NIST is responsible for writing “cybersecurity standards for the federal government” (pg 9).

Public participation in the teleconference is being encouraged. Registration is required and may be accomplished by providing your name, e-mail address, and phone number to Cuong Nguyen at cuong.nguyen@nist.gov by August 16th. Written comments may be submitted via by e-mail to nistsgfac@nist.gov.