Collaboration
The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) is the trade association for companies that provide products and services in the areas of demand response, smart meters and smart grid technologies. DRSG works to educate and provide information to policymakers, utilities, the media, the financial community and stakeholders on how demand response and smart grid technologies such as smart meters can help modernize our electricity system and provide customers with new information and options for managing their electricity use. www.drsgalition.org
The GridWise Alliance is a coalition of stakeholders along the energy supply chain from utilities to large tech companies to academia to venture capitalists to emerging tech companies who are advocating for a smarter grid for the public good. www.gridwise.org
The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which was founded in 1865. ITU-T was established on 1 March 1993 within the framework of the "new" ITU, replacing the former International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT).
The function of ITU-T is to provide global telecommunication standards by studying technical, operating and tariff questions. The results of these studies are published as ITU-T Recommendations.
ITU-T aims to continue to be recognized as the pre-eminent worldwide telecommunication standards body. The UPA is one of the A.4 qualified organizations to contribute to the ITU-T and the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) www.itu.int
The UPLC is an independent operating unit of the United Telecom Council (UTC), which is the international trade association for the telecommunications interests of investor-owned, municipal and cooperatively organized utilities and other critical infrastructure industries. The membership of the UPLC is composed of both utility and technology partners, working together to address the legal, regulatory, technological, and business opportunity issues created by broadband power line communications technologies. The UPLC is supportive of efforts to promote the development of standards that could be applicable to all geographic areas in the world, as well as promoting coexistence for all potential technical solutions. www.uplc.org
OPERA, "Open PLC European Research Alliance", is an Integrated Project including 36 companies sponsored and co-financed by the European Commission 6th Framework Program under the strategic objective "Broad Band for all" in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Priority. The UPA has entered an agreement with OPERA www.ist-opera.org to collaborate on the promotion of the OPERA specification.
