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.

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
• 61968-3 Network Operations (OMS Message Profiles)
• 61968-4 Asset Management
• 61968-6 Construction and Maintenance (WMS Message Profiles)
• 61968-8 Customer Information Systems (CIS Message Profiles)
• 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)
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• 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)
• 62325 NA Market Standards
• Element to consider with selecting the toolchain
• Budgeting for the toolchain
• One Method to create a Payload (CIMTool demo)
• 62361-102 CIM-61850 Harmonization

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

Alan McMorran, Open Grid Systems
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

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).

John Moseley, ERCOT

Panel on CIM in Practice for Network Model Data Exchanges

Jay Britton, Britton Consulting
Alan McMorran, Open Grid Systems
Chuck DuBose, Siemens PTI
Lars-Ola Osterlund, ABB Ventyx
Kendall Demaree, Alstom
Kurt Hunter, Siemens
John Moseley, ERCOT
Pat Brown, EPRI