Lisa Cohn of Energy Efficiency Markets interviews Dick DeBlasio, life senior member of IEEE and principal laboratory program manager for electricity programs at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who is developing a guide for developing smart grid standards. In Part One, he discusses how this guide will bring together different entities to establish standards for the smart grid. In Part Two, he discusses the smart grid pilot program, which has received $4.5 billion from the federal government for demonstration projects.