Energy Management

7.1 Principles of Energy Management

7.1.4 IT Integration and ServiceOriented Architecture

In order to survive in the deregulated energy market, power companies today face the urgent task of optimizing their core processes. This is the only way that they can survive in this competitive environment. The aim is to make the system architecture modular and component-based so that a exible conguration and IT integration can be implemented in a cost-efcient manner. The crucial step here is to combine the large number of autonomous IT systems into one homogeneous IT landscape. However, conventional network control systems could only be integrated with considerable effort because they did not use any integration standard as none did exist. Network control systems designed with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offer the best basis for IT integration. Open systems through the use of standards and de facto standards A modern network control system provides the basis for integration of an energy management system in the existing system landscape of the utility through the use of standards and de facto standards. IEC 61970 Common Information Model (CIM) denes the standard for data models in electrical networks. It supports the import and export of formats such as XDF and RDF, which are based on the XML standard Web-based user interface, webtechnology Standardized PC hardware instead of proprietary hardware Client/server conguration based on Standard LANs and protocols (TCP/IP) Open interfaces (OBCD, OLE, OPC, etc.) RDBMS basis with open interfaces Nationally and internationally standardized transmission protocols (IEC 60870-5, IEC 60870-6) Service-oriented architecture A modern network control system provides a service-oriented architecture with standardized process, interface and communication specications based on standards IEC 61968 and IEC 61970. They form the basis for integrating the network control system in the enterprise service environment of the utility.

The services of a control system comprise: Data services with which, for example, the databases of the core applications can be accessed, e.g., readout of the operational equipment affected by a fault incident in the power supply system Functional logic services, e.g., for starting a computing program for calculating the load ow in the power supply system Business logic services that coordinate the business logic for specic energy management work processes of the participating systems, e.g., fault management in the network control system within the customer information system at the utility. The network control system is one of many systems in the IT network of the utility that interacts with other systems and that offers and uses services such as: Services forming part of the offered scope of functions of the network control system Services that are used by the network control system and are provided by other systems and applications Fig. 7.1-18 shows a typical example of the incorporation of the network control system in the enterprise service environment of the utility. Further planning with respect to the required work processes and integration in the heterogeneous system landscape of the utility are based on this incorporation.

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