Green Button standards, consumer energy usage information standardization, and implementation experiences in India

Establishment of the interoperable applications at the electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and market domains is almost accomplished through various standardization activities. At this juncture, advent of the smart grids has opened the new avenues like the consumer domain for the standardization activities, and down the time-line the future grid may evolve for the consumer oriented interoperable systems. This paper attempts to presents an overview of Smart Grid pilots in India along with further scope of standardization. A description of the consumer domain standards is presented to identify the gaps in moving towards realizing the smarter grids. Standardization of the energy usage information is a foundation block to promote such systems. Recently released Green Button standards cater to this purpose. In this context, paper recommends the standardization of energy usage information provided to the consumers in the ongoing smart grid pilots and presented the implementation experiences of these standards at MSEDCL, Maharashtra. An introduction to “GREEN BUTTON - CIM Tool (GamBIT)”, first of its kind tool available in public domain to educate entities/stakeholders of Electric Power Systems in India on power system and smart grid standards.