Smart Grid Maturity Model

The Smart Grid Maturity Model is a management tool that helps utilities develop programmatic approaches to and track their progress toward Smart Grid transformation. The US Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability funds Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute to maintain the Smart Grid Maturity Model.

Developed by utilities for utilities, the Smart Grid Maturity Model focuses on eight areas of strategy, organization, and operation:

• Strategy, management, and regulatory
• Organization and structure
• Grid operations
• Work and asset management
• Technology
• Customer
• Value chain integration
• Societal and environmental.

These eight domains are then arrayed against six maturity levels: default, initiating, enabling, integrating, optimizing, and pioneering.

A Smart Grid Maturity Model assessment provides a maturity rating for each of the model's eight domains. Utilities use the model to assess their state of smart grid implementation, define goals for future states, and generate inputs for roadmapping, planning, and implementation processes.

For more information, see the Software Engineering Institute’s Smart Grid Tools and Methods Web site.