Smart Grid Interoperability Panel - Governing Board

The runoff election in Category 18 is done and the SGIP Board is announced (which might not mean a lot to most folks, but there was considerable electioneering involved since this group is going to be shaping the future of power distribution in the U.S.):

Category 1 - Appliance and consumer electronics providers: Brian Markwalter,
Consumer Electronics Association


Category 2 - Commercial and Industrial equipment manufacturers and automation vendors: Tariq Samad, Honeywell


Category 3 - Consumers – Residential, Commercial, and Industrial: Todd Rytting,
Panasonic Electric Works Laboratory of America


Category 4 - Electric transportation industry Stakeholders: * open *


Category 5 - Electric utility companies – Investor Owned Utilities (IOU) and Publicly Owned Utilities: George Bjelovuk, American Electric Power


Category 6 - Electric utility companies—Municipal (MUNI): * open *


Category 7 - Electric utility companies—Rural Electric Association (REA): Bob Saint,
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)


Category 8 - Electricity and financial market traders (includes aggregators): * open *


Category 9 - Independent power producers: Kenneth Van Meter, Lockheed Martin’s Energy Solutions


Category 10 - Information and communication technologies (ICT) Infrastructure and Service Providers: Matthew Theall, Intel Corporation


Category 11 - Information technology (IT) application developers and integrators: Vint Cerf, Google Inc.


Category 12 - Power equipment manufacturers and vendors: Le Tang, ABB Inc.


Category 13 - Professional societies, users groups, trade associations and industry consortia: Wayne Longcore, Consumers Energy


Category 14 - R&D organizations and academia: Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M University


Category 15 - Relevant Federal Government Agencies: Perry Pederson, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)


Category 16 - Renewable Power Producers: John Nunneley, SunSpec Alliance


Category 17 - Retail Service Providers: Brent Hodges, Reliant Energy


Category 18 - Standards and specification development organizations (SDOs): John Caskey, National Electrical Manufacturers Assoc. (NEMA)


Category 19 - State and local regulators: Paul Centolella, Public Utility Commission of Ohio


Category 20 - Testing and Certification Vendors: Rik Drummond, Drummond Group Inc.


Category 21 - Transmission operators and Independent System Operators: Jamshid Afnan,
ISO New England Inc.


Category 22 - Venture Capital: * open *


Category 23 - At Large:


   Paul De Martini, Southern California Edison

   John McDonald, GE Energy

   Mark McGranaghan, Electric Power Research Institute