Common Information Model - enabling data exchanges and interoperability in the electric utility industry

P&E Magazine, May 2015

Power & Energy Magazine Editorial Board meeting, 30 July 2014, Washington DC

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Guest editor: Chavdar Ivanov, ENTSO-E

Margaret Goodrich, SISCO, Vice-Chair IEEE TF on CIMDario Frazzetta, ENTSO-E

Objectives• Explain the high level challenges of power systems and

related use cases• Explain and demonstrate where CIM can be applied to help

resolving issues that power system engineers are facing• Bring up to date information on CIM which is enabling data

exchange and interoperability in the industry in a complex and challenging environment

• Increase awareness and cooperation by power system engineers to address business needs of the community

• Help different IEEE P&E Society committees to identify topics for discussions between committees and between IEEE and IEC.

Guiding principles when preparing the edition

• Explain CIM from the viewpoint of power system engineers

• Focus on main areas and provide details for a few of them

• Involve experts from different domains – utilities, vendors, academia, etc.

• Involve experts from different continents• No overlap of authors between articles

The Six Articles • Power systems - from challenges and requirements

to interoperable solutions• The CIM and Smart Meters: Intelligence Across the

Enterprise• Today’s grid relies on accurate network models• Making Distribution Automation Work: The Need for

Smart Data• The CIM – a Look Under The Hood• Enabling the Integrated Grid – Leveraging Data to

Integrate Distributed Resources and Customers

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Article 1: Power systems - from challenges and requirements to interoperable solutions

• Focus on challenges

• Explain the need of data exchange standards

• Cover interoperability aspects

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Article 2: The CIM and Smart Meters: Intelligence Across the Enterprise

• Big data: smart metering in the hope of gaining visibility into energy consumption on a much more granular scale of time

• CIM standards provide a comprehensive representation of data for reading, configuration, control, and operation of smart meters

• CIM standards support bidirectional communication

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Article 3: Today’s grid relies on accurate network models

• Integrated network model management

• Explain the requirements and the complexity to respond to these requirements

• Nerwork model lego®: CIM approach to network models is to design modular data

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Article 4: Making Distribution Automation Work: The Need for Smart Data

• How the CIM standards enable the acquisition and integration of data from a variety of sources and time frames

• The need to increase awareness at the corporate level that new data governance policies

• Smart Grid vision: a key ingredient of which is to think big but start small.

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Article 5: The CIM – a Look Under The Hood

• show how CIM based exchanges are created and implemented

• provides excellent background for business domain experts to understand the development process and capabilities of CIM based integration

• The overarching canonical CIM information model as a basis for all CIM exchange payloads

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Article 6: Enabling the Integrated Grid – Leveraging Data to Integrate Distributed Resources and

Customers

• Architecture for the Integrated Grid

• Advantages of Standards for Information Integration

• The Communications Architecture – The roles of CIM and IEC 61850

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