Information exchange with CIM for Engergy Industry

Abstract: To produce, transfer and deliver energy within the power system, reliable and available information systems are a part of the key to success. Information about the grid states, outages, assets, locations, customers etc. is required to operate the business. Information systems need to exchange information, both within a utility and with external utilities. Since different utilities use different information systems with different information models an incentive for a standardized information model occurs. The Common Information Model (CIM) is an information model standardized by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Since this information model is a standard and covers many areas of business it becomes abstract, complex and intangible. Therefore adaptation and delimitation is required before implementation. In this study CIM is analyzed and then compatibility tested in the context of network model data exchange. The data is provided from a network operations unit within a company in the energy distribution business. The information exchange specification is used to adapt CIM to the specific situation. Then the corresponding CIM data is located in the source data. At last a transformation example is provided with a suggested syntax. According to this study and the observations made from the sample data an implementation should be feasible. However such an implementation will require engineering.