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the ieee and FerC cooperation
will yield results to advance technology and associated energy policies and
standards that build on an already-solid
foundation. objectives to achieve for improving electric energy systems include
the following:
1) sharing technical needs and addressing challenges for infrastructure planning, operation, and
marketing optimization
2) identifying existing and emerging technological requirements,
needs, and approaches for addressing them
3) developing, disseminating, and
sharing information on advances
in technology and associated policy and standards for the planning,
operations, and maintenance of
electric energy systems and their
component parts.
Furthermore, in october 2016, the
ieee-SA signed an Mou with nerC.
ieee-SA (in cooperation with the PeS)
and nerC have the common objective
of performing and promoting, directly
or indirectly, regional and international

standardization. Both organizations have
a reciprocal interest in gaining knowledge about the activities of the other
organization, which may facilitate cooperation in achieving the following goals:
1) encourage communication between the two organizations
2) promote shared knowledge of the
standards development activities
of each organization
3) facilitate liaisons between each other's technical groups and other cooperation where possible.
in addition, the PeS team provided
comments to the "Public Policy Position
Statement on renewable energy in the
european union." in summary, 83 comments representing 12 PeS technical
committees and the ieee Smart Grid community have been provided. this initiative
shows global engagement by the ieee as
we expect that the aforementioned examples will encourage other government and
regulatory organizations around the world
to tap into the ieee's immense innovative
and practical knowledge.
Another example is cooperation
with the CPuC. CPuC President Michael

Picker attended the ieee PeS San Francisco Chapter meeting and met with the
PeS to discuss industry trends, challenges, and opportunities and how the ieee
could support common goals to achieve a
sustainable energy future. our plan is to
have a CPuC workshop with ieee technical leaders to address distributed energy resource integration priorities based
on California's distributed resource plan.
Providing leadership on the previously discussed initiatives with global governments and regulatory organizations is
the PeS Policy technical Support task
Force. the goal of the task force is to tap
technical committee, smart grid initiative,
and overall Society membership to implement those important global industry
activities. the task force leaders are John
Mcdonald, doug Houseman, dagmar
niebur, Jeff nelson, tom Pierpoint, Julio
romero Aguero, Marianna Vaiman, and
Miroslav Begovic, all of whom receive
great support from the ieee staff, including Pat ryan, dan toland, Sue koval,
Maria Proetto, and Angie rajski.
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