Task Force on Power System Modelling in CIM
Background
Background
Today’s Electrical Utility IT and Operation environment consists of many applications and systems from different vendors and this creates a challenge to integrate all these different applications and systems. Business semantics play an important role in terms of specifying, defining, and governing the meaning of the concepts comprising the domain knowledge. Power system information is a major part of the overall transmission/ distribution business semantics. It covers operation, planning, market system, asset management, etc. One of the core difficulties to support such complicated enterprise is to define a consistent model to represent all major domains so that the inconsistencies and gaps can be bridged. The IEC Common Information Model (CIM) has made significant progress in the ability of representing such complex models and it has gained a great deal of acceptance in many utility integration projects. The time has come for the IEEE members to take on a more proactive role in the activities relating to CIM and this can be achieved through a dedicated task force on power system modeling using CIM standard