AMA-SYSTEMS GMBH was founded 1976 and had its roots in trading and engineering for industrial automation. Over the years AMA established itself in the Open Communications Standards Market and evolved into a strong player with strategic partners: development of customer-specific software applications for manufacturing processes started in the 1990s and since year 2000 AMA-SYSTEMS has entered the energy market, providing specialized IT services, with software, hardware and solutions.

With almost four decades of experiences, AMA-SYSTEMS today unites outstanding competences in industrial automation, information and communication technologies serving customers in the energy and manufacturing industry as well as in the machine and plant manufacturing realm. At the center of our activity lies the solution of complex technical tasks in operative or productive environments – with flexibility, speed and efficiency deriving from our broad, trans-sectorial know-how.

One particular focus of AMA-SYSTEMS is communication in the energy industry. We provide products and services for the industry standards and protocols IEC 60870-6/ICCP/TASE.2 and IEC 61850 / IEC 61400-25 and support our customers from the HW up to Enterprise Data warehouses. At the core of this business lies the Europe-wide distribution and support of software products of internationally renowned vendors. Based on these products AMA-SYSTEMS offers gateways, tools, trainings, certification and consulting - especially for smart grid technology, conformance tests and software libraries.

Arteche is an international leader in the design, manufacturing and sales of equipment and solutions in the fields of power generation, transmission and distribution, as well as in electrical applications for industry, substation and wind energy turnkey projects, power quality and substation automation. The company headquarter is located in Mungia, Spain.

Arteche Group has 65 years of history and 2,300 employees worldwide. The group is organised in four independent business units:

• Instrument Transformers
• Smart Grid
• Power Quality
• Turnkey Solutions

The portfolio of products includes instrument current and voltage transformers for indoor and outdoor service - both oil and gas insulated - in the entire voltage range up to 765 kV, high voltage optical current transformers, auxiliary relays, IEC 61850 compliant protection devices, merging units, substation control systems, low and high voltage capacitor banks, harmonic filters, line traps, substation meters, reclosers, switchgear, hydro power generation monitoring and control systems, low power distribution sensors, overhead line temperature sensors, PLC/BPL couplers, fault indicators, and other transmission and distribution equipment. Arteche also provides services for substation and renewable generation turn key projects, substation automation projects, power quality and wind park connection studies, and power line dynamic rating solutions.

Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) is an autonomous society under Ministry of Power, Government of India. Set up in 1960 by the Government of India,  functions as a centre for applied research in electrical power engineering assisting the  electrical industry in product development, Consultancy and quality assurance. CPRI also serves as an independent authority for testing and certification of power equipment as per National and International standards. CPRI's governing body includes eminent professionals from Industries, Utilities, prestigious Academic and Research Institutions and the Government. 

The officials of CPRI are members of various standardisation committees and corporate members of various bodies/organisation.  CPRI has established state of the art protocol testing laboratory which is unique in its kind in this part of the world and is being catering to its customers to develop, test and certify communication protocol related to Substation Automation and Metering as per National and International standards.

The protocol laboratory of CPRI is equipped with the facility of conformance testing of IEC 61850 compatible devices.  This test facility is accredited by Utility Communication Architecture International Users Group (UCA IUG) as Level - A  which means CPRI is an independent third party laboratory for testing of server devices for IEC 61850 compliance. CPRI is the first and only Institute in this part of the world to get this accreditation status for IEC 61850 conformance testing. 

CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power) is the largest electric utility in Hong Kong serving the business and domestic community in Kowloon, the New Territories, Lantau and most of the outlying islands. Operating a vertically integrated electricity generation, transmission and distribution business, CLP Power provides a highly reliable supply of electricity and excellent customer services to over 5.7 million people in its supply area. 

CLP Power is a subsidiary of CLP Holdings which also invests in energy businesses in Chinese mainland, Australia, India and Southeast Asia. It is the largest external investor in the Chinese mainland electricity industry, and a leading international private sector power company in the Asia Pacific region with a diversified portfolio of power generation from gas, coal, renewables and nuclear.

Driven by its purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV GL enables organisations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. DNV GL provides classification and technical assurance along with software and independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas and energy industries. It also provides certification services to customers across a wide range of industries. DNV GL, whose origins go back to 1864, operates globally in more than 100 countries with its 16,000 professionals dedicated to helping their customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.

In the Energy industry

In DNV GL we unite the strengths of DNV, KEMA, Garrad Hassan, and GL Renewables Certification. DNV GL’s 2,500 energy experts support customers around the globe in delivering a safe, reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy supply. We deliver world-renowned testing, certification and advisory services to the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency. Our expertise spans onshore and offshore wind power, solar, conventional generation, transmission and distribu­tion, smart grids, and sustainable energy use, as well as energy markets and regulations. Our testing, certification and advisory services are delivered independent from each other. Learn more at www.dnvgl.com/energy.

DNV GL’s professionals support utilities and manufacturers in the area of intelligent networks and communication such as SCADA EMS/DMS, substation automation, smart metering and data communication. For data communication DNV GL provides services for the IEC TC57 and IEC TC13 communication standards and models such as IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, IEC 60870-5, DNP3, IEC 60870-6 (ICCP/Tase.2), Elcom-90, , IEC 61968 / IEC 61970 / IEC 62325 (CIM standards) and the smart meter standard DLMS/Cosem. For all these standards DNV GL provides consultancy, training, test tools such as protocol analyzers, simulators and conformance test facilities and test services such as conformance -, interoperability -, performance and acceptance testing.

Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of more than 27,600 megawatts of generation, 12,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline and 6,000 miles of electric transmission lines.  Dominion operates the nation's largest natural gas storage system with 942 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves retail energy customers in 13 states.  Corporate headquarters are in Richmond, Va.

Dominion's strategy is to be a leading provider of electricity, natural gas and related services to customers in the energy-intensive Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the U.S., a potential market of 50 million homes and businesses where 40 percent of the nation's energy is consumed.

DTE Energy Co. (NYSE: DTE) is a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. 

Our largest operating subsidiaries are Detroit Edison and MichCon. Together, these regulated utility companies provide electric and/or gas services to more than three million residential, business and industrial customers throughout Michigan.  

Our electric and gas utility businesses have each been in operation for over a century. We have leveraged that wealth of experience and assets to develop a number of non-utility subsidiaries which provide energy-related services to business and industry nationwide.

Duke Energy makes life better for millions of people every day by providing electric and gas services in a sustainable way – affordable, reliable and clean.

We are one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplying and delivering energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. We have approximately 35,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Carolinas and the Midwest, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. Our commercial and international businesses own and operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin America, including a portfolio of renewable energy assets.

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.

Formed in 1948, Efacec, the largest Portuguese Group in the field of electricity, employs around 4,800 people and has a volume of orders that already exceeded 1,000 Million Euros, being present in more than 65 countries.

    Energy Solutions
            Transformers
            High and Medium Voltage Switchgear
            Service
    Engineering Solutions and Services
            Engineering
            Automation
            Maintenance
            Environment
            Renewable
    Transport and Logistics
            Transport
            Logistics

Efacec's strategy, focusing on International market, as well as important investments made in Innovation and New Technologies Development, backed by the resources of Efacec traditional technology led the Group to a position at the forefront of the Portuguese Industry and overseas markets.

Further information is available on the Web at: www.efacec.com.

"Elkomtech S.A. was established in 1988 and from the start it has focused its business activity on the electric power industry and energy distribution utilities.

Elkomtech S.A. provides complete high-end-solution for DMS/EMS utilities:

Remote Terminal Units, protection relays, SCADA systems etc. It also provides supervision of the implemented systems, service equipment and users training in configuring, commissioning and maintenance of the offered products.

 The main company's product is known as Ex System, which consists of:

 * Integrated WindEx system - a complete source of information about electrical network at every voltage level - enabling efficient processes management, operation, monitoring, data recording and development of the electricity grid;

* substation devices: RTU's, protection relays, data concentrators and protocol converters, security and network automation, transmission media converters and modules for communication through different media (GPRS, TETRA, etc.)."

ENSOTEST S.L. develops software tools for the validation of communication protocols in the energy sector. Our goal is to help the manufacturers to develop and validate high quality products that integrate in the utility network without failures. Our protocol analyzers and testing automation tools use open protocols as MODBUS, IEC 60870-5-104, DNP3 and of course IEC 61850.

FGH is a non-profit research association of electricity supply industry and electrical industry with the aim of developing and providing competence and practice-oriented technical knowledge together with its members. The bundling of these tasks and the independent safeguarding of the member’s interests attain increasing meaning in the liberalised market. Here, our members and partners from network operation, industry, service and science profit by the activities of FGH.

The co-operation with RWTH Aachen University as well as other research institutes guarantees the comprehensive coverage of the entire sphere of activity. As an interface FGH ensures a fast transfer of solutions from science into practice. FGH has a relevant share to the world-wide top-ranking of the security and quality of German transmission and distribution networks. With our services we help to protect this position in the liberalised market.

Fingrid is the electricity transmission system operator in Finland. Fingrid takes care of the functioning of the nation-wide electricity transmission system.

We transmit electricity from generating plants to industries and energy companies, thus facilitating the everyday life of all Finns. We maintain the transmission system in the proper condition and upgrade the grid as required by the electricity market. We take care of the cross-border interconnections for electricity transmission. We promote the functioning of the electricity market by maintaining sufficient transmission connections between countries.

 Key information

 Public limited company

• Established on 29 November 1996
• Operations started on 1 September 1997
• Owns the high-voltage transmission grid in Finland plus all significant cross-border connections
• Approx. 14,000 km of transmission lines
• More than 100 substations
• Customers comprise electricity producers, electricity market parties, major industrial enterprises, and distribution network operators
• Independent and impartial player
• Forerunner which is among the top-ranking companies in its business globally in terms of cost efficiency and system security

Flexibilis Oy is a technology leader of mission critical communication solutions. Solutions provided by Flexibilis are based on industry standard technologies and protocols enabling compatibility with the past and the future. Flexibilis employs high-end technologies including extensive use of programmable hardware. Flexibilis is headquartered in Tampere, Finland. Founded in 1998, Flexibilis achieved a strong position in the Field Programmable Gate Array business with its IP products and design services. Thanks to rapid development in FPGA technology and strong R&D Flexibilis is able to expand to critical (High-availability Seamless Redundancy and Parallel Redundancy Protocol) communication and time synchronization (IEEE1588) markets with products that have performance no software-based architecture can achieve.

Florida State University is conducting research on:

• Network Security for Transmission and Substation Automation
• Power grid Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS), and
• Power grid Wide Area Actionable Systems (WAAS).

Greenbird Integration Technology (HQ: Oslo / Norway) is a software company and IT consultancy delivering:

• Expert IT advisory and development services  - focused on Enterprise Architecture (EA), BPM, SOA, integration and middleware solutions.
• Greenbird MeterCloud - an advanced integration solution platform for utilities focusing on Smart Grid, Smart Metering and Smart Home applications.
  
  Greenbird MeterCloud solves integration challenges utilities face when implementing and operating a Smart Metering and Smart Grid infrastructure, helping utilities build automated processes and totally integrated solutions to monitor and manage:
  - Interactions with (prime) contractors during planning and rollout
  - Metering and infrastructure operations
  - Meter value collection and event / alarm handling across various communication technologies
  - Dataflow and distribution of meter values, events and alarms to various subscribers such as Billing / CIS, SCADA, Network information systems, Smart Grid analysis systems, Customer Engagement Portals or external sides such as Google PowerMeter or Microsoft Hohm.
  
  Greenbird MeterCloud provides out-of-the-box business integration processes and portlet based monitoring dashboards supporting the whole metering value chain from AMI rollout, AMR operations, metering, customer engagement to Smart Grid applications. Greenbird MeterCloud is built on top of Greenbird Foundation, a holistic SOA integration platform delivering enterprise capabilities such as reliable realtime messaging, enterprise service bus (validation, transformation, routing), business process management, complex event processing or multi channel integration.

Gridata develops emerging technologies at the edge of the grid, where the production and delivery of electric energy meets the consumer.  The consumption of energy is accompanied by increasingly detailed data about that consumption, from sensors, utilities, third parties, and consumers themselves.  Our technologies allow consumers to unlock knowledge from that data and understand the cost of their behavior, and then participate in programs that reduce those costs, including social, environmental, and financial.

Gridata capabilities include:   consulting support for standards development, data modeling, and system design and architecture;   OEM software development for third parties launching next-generation consumer products and appliances;   test harness development for emerging compliance processes;  integration of modern sensor networks to computing platforms;    and custom data management and analytics development for residential, industrial and commercial consumer applications. 

GridClone, a Dutch company, was founded with the objective to provide high quality and flexible simulators for IEC 61850 based substation automation and power systems.

With the introduction of IEC 61850 advanced testing tools and simulators will be needed by utilities, system integrators and manufacturers of power system equipment. These tools and simulators will support the verification of the conformity and functionality of the integrated system and its components.

GridClone has professionals that have gained many years of experience in the power system domain, conformance testing of IEC 61850 devices and systems and development of IEC 61850 software test tools.

Hexing is focused on metering products and energy management system covering transmission, distribution, C&I customers and residential customers. It is located at 1418 Moganshan Road, ShangCheng Industrial Zone, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China.

With more than 20 years’ rapid growth, Hexing Group brings together an experienced team of people, cutting edge technologies, and strategic partners to provide metering products, distribution equipment and solutions to more than 80 countries’ customers. We have been actively promoting international cooperation and setting up overseas joint ventures in many countries. We established manufactures in Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Brazil and Tunisia, offices in South Africa, Netherland, Peru and Bangladesh. We export production equipment and system products to our overseas partners. We have representative offices in more than 20 countries to expand the European and American markets. All these make Hexing be multi-national company for Smart Grid solutions.

In energy management system, Hexing defines the maximum benefits from a growing abundance of intelligent grid devices, outage management, substation automation, SCADA, AMI, distributed renewable energy, advanced metering, and all latest development in smart grid field. 

The Institute of New Technology of Electrical Energy was established in 1999, whose members are mainly faculty members of The Department of Electrical Engineering and The Department of Digital System and Control Engineering.

Its research area in 2010s covers smart grid or microgrid; especially energy management system with renewable resources and electrical energy storage in collaboration with industrial companies, research institutes and utilities, where the special topics are database migration of national-wide energy management system, real-time economic operation strategy, power system analysis applications for energy management system and power system engineering for smart gird or microgrid design.

Hydro-Québec generates, transmits and distributes electricity, mainly using renewable energy sources, in particular hydroelectricity. It is one of the biggest electric utilities in North America.

The mission of Hydro-Québec is to deliver reliable electricity service throughout Québec.The company has fully embraced the concept of sustainable development and works tirelessly to meet the needs of the present while preserving the environmental heritage and energy future of generations to come.

Hydro-Québec five year Strategic Plan relies on the know-how and commitment of all employees. It emphasizes energy efficiency, renewable energies and technological innovation.

Hypertek is a contract research and development company that specializes in the applications of software and hardware to interoperable communications to and from embedded systems. Our activities provide us with experience and expertise in commercial, military, and utility communications projects. We have experience in the development of communications standards and their application to systems.

Hypertek has strived to maintain a balance between our research and standards development activities, and, hardware and software development of products and services for our customers. This balance allows Hypertek a unique perspective increasing the depth of our work in both standards and development.

In 1979, III was incorporated as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) through the joint efforts of public and private sectors, to support the development/applications of the information industry as well as the information society in Taiwan. Besides technology advancement, III’s mission has evolved from Information Technology (IT) to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development with a wide social coverage. III focus on areas such as embedded systems, networks/communications, sensor networks, Green ICT, information security, Telematics, Cloud computing and so on. And Strategic planning and development of large scale national infrastructure and application systems.

In Green ICT, III developed an advanced metering infrastructure and smart grid application services based on verified WSN technologies.  With the integrated technologies of sensor networks, III created a large-scale data collection and analysis platform to effectively reach and accomplish energy conservation goals, developing a nationwide AMI system, Distribution Management Systems and Demand Response Platform, and Green Transportation/Telematics infrastructure. III aggressively leads industry alliances to establish industrial consensus to form competitive industry standards that solve inter-operability issues. 

On October 01, 2009, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was founded by a merger of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universität Karlsruhe. 

KIT bundles the missions of both precursory institutions: A university of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg with teaching and research tasks and a large-scale research institution of the Helmholtz Association

conducting program-oriented provident research on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. Within these missions, KIT is operating along the three strategic fields of action of research, teaching, and innovation.

 The KIT Energy Center with its 1100 employees is one of the largest energy research centers in Europe. It bundels the energy research activities of the KIT, the merger of the former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universität Karlsruhe and reknown cooperation partners. By this, it crosses the lines between disciplines and combines fundamental and applied research in all relevant energies for industry, household, service and mobility.

The Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL) is a leading testing and certification body in  

Korea established for the purpose of improving industrial technology and global  

competitiveness. KTL has been providing support for the development of testing  

and evaluation technologies and has been helping companies obtain domestic and  

international certifications for more than 48 years.  

Manufacturers, enterprises, and industries are our faithful partners and KTL  visualizes its future through their eyes.  

On the basis of a steady infrastructure that is comprised of a streamlined  research core, reliable manpower, and an efficient organization structure  with a network system among other testing and certification bodies  around the globe, KTL is dedicated to helping our clients strengthen their  competitiveness and extend their markets.  

KTL has evolved into an internationally renowned testing and certification  body that strives to serve our clients with one-stop total services and being  equipped with capabilities that are compatible with global standards along  the way.

If it’s a question of power, Megger is the answer.

You know Megger. Since 1903, the Megger family has provided tools, training and products under such familiar monikers as Biddle, AVO, Programma, Multi-Amp, STATES, PowerDB and Pax Diagnostics. With a vision encompassing excellence, precision, innovation and service, Megger and its subsidiaries and divisions will partner with any customer, working with them on an interactive path to the right solution. Megger equipment supports electrical systems worldwide across a range of industries from power generation, transmission and distribution to control wiring and telecommunications.

NPP Mikronika (Scientific Production Enterprise Mikronika Ltd.) is an industrial company which performs design, development, provisioning, manufacture and commissioning of automated process control systems for power industry.

As a leading manufacturer of Substation Automaton Systems we have been operating on the market since 2009. We have supplied reliable and innovative products and services to Russian energy, transportation and industrial infrastructure markets. NPP Mikronika provides electric utilities with engineering and technology consulting services.

Hardware and software modularity allows implementation of different architectural solutions ranging from an ordinary data acquisition and transfer systems, to a full automated production control systems.

MIKRONIKA

Hardware and software vendor

www.mikronika.pl

Next-Generation Power Technology Center of Myongji University does research on Power System and communication technology.

Next-Generation Power Technology Center (NPTC), an Engineering Research Center (ERC) sponsored by the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology and The Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), was established in 2001 with the aim of developing the next-generation protection and automation technology of electrical power systems. This innovative technology, which blends ICT (Information Communication Technology) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) with conventional power technology, is expected to play a key role in every aspect of power systems in a near future. The recent large-scale blackouts around the world have proved the significance of developing new protection and control technology for the new power industry environment. Consequently, many world-leading companies and research institutes are concentrating their efforts on developing the next-generation power technology. NPTC is expected to be a world-leading research institute dedicated to the protection and SAS (station automation system) technology in a near future. The goal of NPTC is technological innovation, which would contribute to more reliable and secure power system in not only Republic of Korea but also the other parts of the world and more convenient human life eventually.

Built upon decades of research, development, and leveraging numerous operational experiences in secondary power systems, NR Electric has developed a unified and integrative solution for digital substation. The fully digitalized solution connects the control room to the switchyard with optic fiber links. This proven solution reduces your capital investment, operational and maintenance costs. It also offers unmatched information integration, and provides better reliability and security for substations.

Open Grid Systems Ltd. is a consultancy and software company based in Glasgow, UK providing services to the electrical power industry focussed on model-driven software engineering, open standards and cutting-edge technologies.

Open Grid Systems provides expertise in the areas of data management, information modelling, data transformation, data-exchange technologies, visualisation and power system network analysis software.  We utilise the power of open standards and model-driven architectures to provide modern, scalable solutions to the challenges faced by utilities in the smart-grid enabled world.

    Opus One Solutions is a software engineering and solutions company with the vision of a Connected Energy Internet. Through GridOS®, its intelligent energy networking platform, Opus One optimizes complex power flows so that it can deliver real-time energy management to distribution utilities and other managers of distributed energy assets. GridOS is modular, scalable, and integrates seamlessly with existing data systems to unlock greater potential for distributed energy resources, including renewable generation, energy storage, and responsive demand. GridOS also facilitates the management of microgrids — from homes to businesses to communities — for unparalleled grid resiliency and value to the electricity customer. Visit Opus One Solutions at opusonesolutions.com and on Twitter @OpusOneSolns.

RuggedCom, A Siemens Business, is a leading provider of rugged communications networking solutions designed for mission-critical applications. RuggedCom's products are designed for use in harsh environments normally found in electrical power substations and “Smart Grids”. RuggedCom's technology solutions include Ethernet switches, network routers, wireless devices, serial servers, media converters, software and professional services.

SAP is the world leader in enterprise software, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with 66,500 employees located in more than 130 countries and annual revenue of € 16.8 billion.

SAP offers the most comprehensive portfolio of solutions for the utilities industry, enabling companies to meet the challenges of an end-to-end future proof energy value chain and more than 2200 world’s leading utilities companies rely on SAP solutions.

The utility industry is in the middle of an unprecedented transformation. Constrained by finite resources and challenged by climate change, steadily growing demand, and an aging infrastructure, utilities must also respond to tough new energy policies and demand-side activism.

One key element to address these challenges is the convergence of operational systems like distribution and outage management systems or automated meter infrastructures with enterprise systems like work management, customer care and billing systems. The industry standards CIM and IEC-61850/61400 enable the sharing of data across the entire information ecosystem. SAP intends to use these standards and is therefore joining the UCA International user group for collaboration and contribution.

Please visit http://www.sap.com/solution/industry/utilities.html

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management

As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in Utilities & Infrastructure, Industries & Machines Manufacturers, Non-residential Building, and Data Centers & Networks and in Residential. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green, the Group's 140,000 plus employees achieved his sales, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations make the most of their energy.

Energy management and sustainability services

As the global specialist in energy management, Schneider Electric has a responsible and ethical commitment to his customers, employees, and the environment, by delivering solutions that align business performance and sustainability. Schneider Electric help clients at all stages of their energy management life cycle by becoming their outsourced energy manager and trusted partner. Our solutions support clients to optimize their use of energy, lower their consumption at peak demand, and help them build thriving sustainability programmes that reduce their carbon footprint and provide cost-effective energy.

Smart grid

To meet today’s increasing energy demands, the grid is rapidly becoming ‘smarter’ to adapt to a changing and more complex environment. Schneider Electric smart grid solutions are interactive and connect everyone from electricity producers to the final consumers in order to efficiently balance demand and supply. Many of Schneider Electric smart grid applications combine renewable resources, microgrids, and energy storage solutions to support the expansion of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure and enhance the balance between demand and supply on the grid.

Schneider Electric is a leader in energy automation by offering a full range of protection relays and T&D substation automation solutions based on IEC61850 technology.

www.schneider-electric.com

SISCO provides communication and integration solutions that supports IEC 61850 for substation automation and wide area centralized remedial action systems(C-RAS); ICCP-TASE.2 for intercontrol center communications, EMS/SCADA integration, and power plant dispatching; C37.118 with IEC 61850 for synchrophasor processing and wide area measurement systems for improved situational awareness; and the Common Information Model (CIM per IEC61970 and IEC 61968) in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Smart Grid integration using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).  SISCO's products and services include:

• Systems Integration Services
• Off-the-shelf OPC interfaces
• Protocol Source Code
• Technology and Product Training

Sparx Systems specializes in high performance and scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems.

With customers in industries ranging from aerospace and automotive engineering to finance, defense, government, entertainment and telecommunications, Sparx Systems is a leading vendor of innovative solutions based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its related specifications. A Contributing Member of the Object Management Group (OMG), Sparx Systems is committed to realizing the potential of model-driven development based on open standards.

The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect, has received numerous accolades since its commercial release in August, 2000. At present, Enterprise Architect is the design tool of choice for over 200,000 registered users world-wide.

SUBNET Solutions Inc. is a global software solutions provider for electrical utilities. SUBNET focuses on Making Substations More Intelligent®. Founded in 1992, SUBNET is an industry leader providing intelligent solutions that securely connect real time electrical utility field information with utility business systems to enable Smart Grid solutions. Over 200 utilities worldwide rely on SUBNET software to safely manage and monitor thousands of substations.

Products include:
    SubSTATION Server: Advanced data concentrator and protocol converter
    SubSTATION Explorer: A feature-rich HMI for substations
    PowerSYSTEM Server: A front-end processor to collect substation data
    PowerSYSTEM Center: Centrally manage access to substation devices

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) provides enterprise software that helps companies achieve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) success. With over 4,000 customers and offices in 40 countries, TIBCO has given leading organizations around the world better awareness and agility–what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®.

TIBCO gives organizations The Power of Now by providing innovative software that helps them pursue initiatives in three important areas:

• SOA : Helping organizations migrate to an infrastructure made up of services that can be assembled, orchestrated and reused.
• BPM : Helping organizations better coordinate the process flows that control how their assets work together.
• Business Optimization : Helping organizations convert streams of data into meaningful information and deliver it to employees, customers and partners.

Focus on customers and their targets led TÜV Rheinland to its motto “Precisely Right”. The organization is core supplier of testing, inspection and certification to the energy industry ever since its establishment in 1872. TÜV Rheinland took a leading role supporting the safe and economically viable establishment of renewable technologies since their emergence. The stakeholder focus on fit for use, energy efficiency, functional safety and cyber security is entrenched in the services offered to our customers globally.

TÜV Rheinland engages actively in the standardization efforts for energy supply and delivery on regional and global level, with a particular focus on Smart Grid initiatives. As the technology develops and industry requirements expand, so does our service portfolio offered to the suppliers and users.

With UCAIug focus TÜV Rheinland provides the following services:

• IEC 61850 Conformance Testing
• IEC 61850 Interoperability Testing
• Cyber Security Testing
• Consulting
• Training

"Choose certainty. Add value" is the core philosophy behind the services that TÜV SÜD provides to its clients. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, the technical service corporation is far more than a mere testing and inspection organization. As committed and responsible process partners boasting comprehensive industry expertise, TÜV SÜD’s certified experts and technical consultants provide services throughout their clients’ entire value chains, focusing on their core competencies of Consulting, Testing, Certification and Training. 16,000 employees proactively optimise technology, systems and expertise at over 600 locations in Europe, America and Asia. Several TÜV SÜD experts are members of standardization committees, like IEEE, IEC and UCA.

The TÜV SÜD provides the following Smart Grid services:

• IEC 61850 Conformance Testing
• IEC 61850 Interoperability Testing
• Enhanced Cyber  Security Testing
• Trainings for IEC 61850 and Smart Grid
• Consulting for IEC 61850 and Smart Grid

UL is a premier global independent safety science company with more than 117 years of history. Employing more than 9,000 professionals, with customers in over 96 countries, UL has five distinct business units – Product Safety, Environment, Life & Health, Knowledge Services and Verification Services – to meet the expanding needs of our customers and to deliver on our public safety mission. 

UL offers services to industries from appliances and HVAC/R to chemicals to energy to high tech and to power and controls. Our global sales offices and laboratories allow us to service customers locally – combining industry knowledge with local market understanding.

Additional information about UL may be found at www.UL.com.

IEES – Intelligent Electric Energy Systems – UNIGE-DINAEL (Department of Naval Architecture and Electrical Engineering) University of Genova

The IEES Lab operates in the following scientific and industrial sectors: Management and optimization of the electric system and of the energy and ancillary services markets. Power  system monitoring and preventive-corrective Control. Analysis, modeling and simulation of power system components and controls. Decision support systems and artificial intelligence (AI) applications to the planning and control of large power systems and industrial systems. Advanced technologies and methodologies for power systems protection. Electric distribution systems with distributed generation (DG). Innovative technologies  for electric power microgeneration. Real time load monitoring and management for consumption rationalization and energy saving. Systemistic and design aspects of lighting engineering and domotics.

Current Projects:

SmartGen leader SOFTECO, Genova, ENEL, University of Genova and Bologna, entitled: “Study, development and validation of innovative methods and tools for active distribution networks management with renewable energy sources”, supported by Ministero per lo sviluppo economico - (2011-2013) www.smartgen.it .

Project  FP7 AFTER “A Framework for electrical power sysTems vulnerability identification, dEfense and Restoration”, leader RSE Milano, 13 partners (RSE - Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, ENEA, SINTEF EN, SINTEF ICT, University College Dublin, City University - London , ALSTOM Power, SIEMENS, Commission of the European Communities Joint Research Centre, ELIA, Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale SpA, ČEPS, a.s.) (2011-2013).

 The T&T Group - Research on Teleinformatics and Teleautomatic at Universidad Nacional in Colombia is involved in several Smart Grid research projects. The T&T Group has the support of Codensa, a colombian utility that distributes electricity throughout the city of Bogotá.

Currently fields of research in the T&T Group are:
- Substation Automation based on IEC 61850
- Cybersecurity for power utility
- Projects concerning CIM adoption

All of the above projects are associated with emerging ICT standards that are required for Smart Grid deployment.

The Agora Center is an internationally recognized and networked research center for interdisciplinary, innovative research on human technology and the knowledge society at the University of Jyvaskyla. It creatively combines research of high international standards from a variety of scientific disciplines with the know-how derived from its diverse partner network.

The Industrial Ontologies Group (IOG) Within the Agora Center is a research group whose main areas of interest are Semantic Web, multi-agent systems and cloud computing (http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup/). The ultimate goal of the group is the creation of Global Understanding Environment (GUN) where different heterogeneous resources (physical devices, software, humans, etc.) are capable of forming self-managed ecosystems by "understanding" and utilizing each other's services. IOG also has a long history of cooperation with industrial partners, Among UCAIug members, IOG has cooperated with Fingrid and ABB. IOG's main interest within UCAIug is CIM model and therefore CIM Users Group. We have experience of integration of heterogeneous data sources using Semantic Web technologies. We would like to find methods for easy migration from legacy systems to CIM-based systems, and their further integration.

The Institute of Electrical Power Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology has extensive experience in the research and implementation work carried out on behalf of the industrial sector. This work implements large and experienced staff. One of the areas of the works are studies on microgrids. The Institute is very active in publishing their scientific achievements. The Institute of Electrical Power Engineering conducts research work and implementation of the following, selected topics:

• modeling and digital simulation of networks and operating conditions of power systems,
• databases for power systems,
• computer systems to support the use and operation of power grids,
• optimization in power systems,
• microgrids and distributed generation,

• forecasting the demand for power and electricity,
• digital protections equipment,
• WAMS based control,
• renewable energy sources,
• power quality,
• economics in electrical power engineering.

Xelas Energy Software is a dedicated division within Xelas Software,  a privately owned company, which acquired the software licenses and intellectual property of Vertel Corporation and Retix in 2004.  Xelas has offices in Los Angeles and the Hague, Netherlands.

Xelas Software products are made to fit smart grid, telecom, messaging and aviation network management markets. For over 25 years Xelas Software performs critical functions in the daily operations of millions of network elements around the world through market leading customers such as Alcatel-Lucent, NSN, Ericsson, IBM, Samsung and Huawei.

Xelas Energy management (XEM) is  a one stop shop for seamless multivendor grid management, optimally based on IEC 61850 defined standards. The XEM product components provide a complete base set for development, testing and validating of 61850 clients and servers, MMS, SV and Goose protocols and integration with various other protocols. We also provide highly specialized professional support services.

The Institute of Embedded Systems at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences is a leading R&D institution in the field of industrial communication. Apart from applied research activities in the development of new communication technologies we offer both turnkey and adaptable IP in the form of FPGA and/or Software for applications in functional safety as well as communication systems in decentralised Energy-Solutions automation. Currently fields of activitiy are:

• Ethernet based high-performance communication solutions (PROFINET, EtherNet/IP etc)

• High precision time synchronisation via packet orientated networks (IEEE 1588)

• High-Availability communication solutions (MRP, PRP, HSR etc)

• Energy Automation (IEC 61850)