Welcome
Participant / Presenter Introductions

Getting Oriented in the CIM World
This session for all CIM U attendees overviews the CIMug website, tools used in managing and implementing the CIM and strategies for getting started with CIM implementations.
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Track 1 – CIM Basics and Enterprise Integration
The morning sessions of this track are intended to provide a basic understanding of the Common Information Model (CIM) standards and their use in electric utility operations and planning. They are recommended for power engineers or IT professionals not familiar with the CIM.

The afternoon sessions of this track cover the use of the CIM for enterprise integration and explore the non-network model (non-61970) portions of the CIM standard.  They are recommended for people with basic understanding of the CIM who are interested in learning detailed information about the use of the CIM for back office integration.

Introduction to the CIM and Related Standards (cont’d)

This session continues the introduction started in the earlier session by exploring information exchange techniques and enterprise semantic modeling. Topics will include:

• Profiles for defining system interfaces
• IEC 61970 network model exchange
• IEC 61968 message payloads for system integration
• Implementation syntax of instance data. CIM expressed in XML and RDF schema
• Value of an Enterprise Semantic Model (ESM) and use of CIM as a Basis for it
• Case studies

CIM for Enterprise Integration (IEC 61968 Series)
This session explores the use of the CIM for enterprise integration by reviewing the major parts of the 61968 CIM standard. Topics will include:

• 61968 Messaging for Distribution – An overview
• 61968-9 Meter Reading and Control (AMI/MDM Message Profiles)

CIM for Enterprise Integration (continued)
This session completes the review of the CIM standards (other than 61970) by taking a detailed look at implementation approaches/tools, modeling for energy markets and harmonization. Topics will include:

• 61968-100 ESB Messaging Implementation Standard (covers integration scenarios)

CIM for Enterprise Integration (IEC 61968 Series)
This session explores the use of the CIM for enterprise integration by reviewing the major parts of the 61968 CIM standard. Topics will include:

• 61968-3 Network Operations (OMS Message Profiles)
• 61968-8 Customer Information Systems (CIS Message Profiles)

CIM for Enterprise Integration (continued)
This session completes the review of the CIM standards (other than 61970) by taking a detailed look at implementation approaches/tools, modeling for energy markets and harmonization. Topics will include:

• Tooling used in some Integration Projects
• Elements to consider in selecting the toolchain
• Budgeting for the toolchain
• One Method to create a Payload (CIMTool demo)

CIM for Enterprise Integration (continued)
This session completes the review of the CIM standards (other than 61970) by taking a detailed look at implementation approaches/tools, modeling for energy markets and harmonization. Topics will include:

• Element to consider with selecting the toolchain
• Budgeting for the toolchain
• One Method to create a Payload (CIMTool demo)
62361-100 Naming and Design Rules for CIM Profiles to XML Schema Mapping

• 62361-100 Naming and Design Rules for CIM Profiles to XML Schema Mapping

Track 2 – CIM and Network Analysis
This track focuses on the use of the CIM for transmission and distribution network modeling. It introduces the CIM as a tool for supporting network analysis and explores each of the profiles of the 61970 standard. It is intended for people interested in the Common Information Model primarily as a tool for facilitating network model management and exchange.

Power System Modeling Basics
Session Introduction
CIM and Network Models

• Anatomy of power flow data (through the eyes of the CIM)
• Partitioning into profiles

Pat Brown, EPRI
Jay Britton, Britton Consulting

Network Model – EQ Profile (foundation)
This session starts exploring the profiles that comprise the network model portion of the CIM by looking at the EQ (physical model) profile.
EQ - Steady state basics

• Modeling a substation with CIM objects
• Connectivity in bus-branch or node-breaker
• Containment
• Energy input and output

Network Model – DI Profile, EQ Profile (special topics)
This session continues exploring network model profiles, reviewing the DI (schematic layout) profile and a number of the more complex parts of the EQ profile.
DI – Display layouts
EQ – Steady state special topics

• Transformers
• HVDC
• Short circuit
• Dynamics
• Unbalanced

Kurt Hunter, Siemens
Chuck DuBose, Siemens PTI

Lars-Ola Osterlund, ABB Ventyx

Variations - Changes to the Network Model
This session takes a look at two examples of sets of conditional changes to the network model (projects and outages) and the profiles they affect.
Projects – Changes to EQ
Outages – Changes to SSH

Model Parts and Assembly
This session explores issues related to the segmented nature of network models and approaches that can be taken for managing maintenance and assembly activities.
Modularization by instances

• Division into MAS with boundaries
• Frameworks
• Recursion

Model Assemblies

• Datasets
• Functions
• Scripts

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Jay Britton, Britton Consulting

Network Model Management in Action: the ERCOT Story
Overview of the history and functionality of ERCOT’s CIM-based Network Model Management System (NMMS).

Chuck DuBose, Siemens PTI

Panel on CIM in Practice for Network Model Data Exchanges

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Jay Britton, Britton Consulting
Chuck DuBose, Siemens PTI
Lars-Ola Osterlund, ABB Ventyx
Kendall Demaree, Alstom
Kurt Hunter, Siemens
Pat Brown, EPRI

Welcome and Introducstions

CIM as a Solution of Choice for DSOs

CONNEXION Information Model - Power Transmission and Distribution IEC TC57 standards are not widely used by Power Generation utilities. They may be used locally to support plant interface with TSO, plant electrical devices control or market management only.

“CONNEXION” stands in French for “nuclear digital control system for export and renovation”. The CONNEXION project is an R&D collaborative project funded by the French nuclear industry. The contributors are EDF (utility), industry suppliers (ALSTOM, AREVA, Atos, CORYS TESS, PREDICT, ALL4TEC, ESTEREL, Rolls-Royce), universities and research centers (Telecom ParisTech, CEA, INRIA, ENS, CNRS/CRAN, LIG). The project is underway, started in 2012 and will end in 2016. CONNEXION consists of five progress objectives (“OP”) :

• OP1 : requirement management and global design
• OP2 : model driven engineering
• OP3 : innovative services for operation
• OP4 : semantic modeling and information management
• OP5 : simulation and system integration

Using CIM to Support Network Model Management Inside the Utility
Multiple applications within a utility make use of electrical system network models. In today’s utility, these models are typically maintained independently for each application, with variations of the same data manually entered into each application’s database. Engineers often spend significant amounts of time entering, synchronizing, validating, and correcting duplicate information instead of actually doing system engineering.

The Common Information Model (CIM) provides a basis on which a coordinated network model maintenance strategy can be built. The CIM is mature and field-tested in the areas of network equipment, connectivity, topology, and power flow solution exchange. However, its use to-date in supporting network model exchange has been primarily for sharing information between utilities, not for the exchange of model information between applications inside a utility. This presentation will describe work done in 2014 by a number of utilities and vendors, in collaboration with EPRI, which focused on the identifying the high-level requirements which a CIM-based Network Model Manager tool should support.
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Dr. Mehmet Kemal Celik, Nexant

Utility Project: ELVIS - Optimizing Process Across Business Domains

Nis Jespersen, IBM & Antti Harjula,Fingrid

Kurt Hunter, Siemens

Working Group 14 Update: Distribution Update

Working Group 16 Update: Marketing Perspective

SISCO CIM Integration Services and Product Overview

SISCO will be presenting how we are helping customers create value with CIM by providing solutions based on knowledge, experience and innovative thinking. SISCO will also demonstrate a new graphical modeling proof-of-concept that supports CIM driven Microgrid controller.

Using CIM to Unlock Siloed Data for Integration and Analytics

EPRI Presentation:

EPRI has a long and positive history with UCAInternational and the IEC standards its communities leverage. From shepherding the early growth of the CIM with its Control Center Application Programming Interface (CCAPI) work in the early 1990s to participating in the formation of UCAInternational in the early 2000s to providing sponsorship of the UCAI 61850 testing program to recent collaboration on Asset Health data modeling initiatives, EPRI has been engaged with UCAI and the standards it supports. With membership on 4 of the IEC Working Groups responsible for CIM and 61850 standards, EPRI both represents utility interests to the standards bodies and provides a conduit back to its members for information on current standards activities. Current work includes initiatives on Field Force Visualization, Integrated Network Model Management and Asset Health.

CIM - Pragmatism and Implementation

The role of CIM in Siemens Spectrum Power™ grid control systems

Modelling Interoperable Electronic Data Interchanges for the Use Cases of the Electric Power System

Welcome and Introductions:

This presentation reviews some CIM based techniques used to combine data from multiple sources, multiple profiles, and multiple versions of CIM models in the context of business solutions.

What Do You Need from CIM? - Panel Audience members will be encouraged to identify what aspects of CIM works for them, what doesn’t work, and what is missing from the CIM standards that could help them better address their integration challenges. A panel of industry experts will engage in an open discussion with the audience of the issues raised to facilitate common understanding and identify potential solutions.