If you work for an electric utility or a vendor in the smart grid space, the SEI has tools you can use in your  smart grid transformation.

Utilities use the SGMM to assess their current state of smart grid implementation, define their goals for a future state, and generate inputs into their roadmapping, planning, and implementation processes. Major investor-owned utilities and small public power utilities alike, in the US and around the world, have reported finding the model a valuable tool to help them to:

• identify where they are on the smart grid landscape
• develop a shared smart grid vision and roadmap
• communicate with internal and external stakeholders using a common language
• prioritize options and support decision making
• compare to themselves over time and to the rest of the community
• measure their progress
• prepare for and facilitate change

Service Providers can apply to become SGMM Navigators, industry experts who have been trained and certified to guide utilities through the SGMM Navigation process. The Navigator works with the utility's smart grid team to complete the SGMM Compass survey on a consensus basis – promoting valuable internal discussion of current status and shared objectives. After scoring and analyzing the survey, the Navigator leads a second workshop to review the survey results and uses them to set consensus aspirations for an agreed planning horizon – and to discuss related motivations, obstacles, and required actions. These outputs are valuable inputs into the utility's smart grid planning and implementation process.  Utilities and vendors alike can benefit from using proven SEI technologies in architecture, cybersecurity, and process improvement.