# 1 AMI Environmentalism Wayne Longcore, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Standards, Consumers Energy

# 2 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

# 3 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”

# 4 The world is not flat

# 5 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

# 6 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

# 7 From person to person

# 8 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…

# 9 What can be done and when Participate 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

# 10 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)