Smart grid EMC standards harmonization

The Standards Development and Education Committee (SDECom) of the IEEE EMC Society has been promoting EMC principles and certification testing in the roll-out of the "smart grid" since the summer of 2008. Volunteers were assigned to attend the IEEE-P2030 meetings in White Plains, NY in September, 2009. The tag line for the New York presentation was: "The Smart Grid can't interoperate if it can't stay operating." At the January 2010 meetings in Santa Clara, all three Task Force committees within IEEE-P2030 agreed that they wanted little, if any, EMC content in their documents. The EMC Society volunteers were discouraged at being spurned by IEEE-P2030 for two years and it began to look like EMC would not be considered in smart grid standardization at all.