Guidelines for Implementing Common Information Model in Electricity Retail Market Information Exchange
Hiekka, Teemu (2019)
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019120424464
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019120424464
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The information exchanges between the participant companies of the Finnish electricity retail market are changing. A new centralized information exchange model will be introduced in a couple of years. Additionally there are efforts for harmonizing these exchanges on European and Nordic levels.
This Master’s thesis focuses on one of the options for this harmonization, the usage of the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) Common Information Model (CIM) standard for modeling the data exchanged in the processes of the electricity retail market. The goal of the thesis was to provide guidelines for Fingrid Datahub, the operator of the centralized information exchange system, for the preparation and implementation of the IEC CIM based exchanges. The study also provides information about the standard and the contributing organizations to electricity retail market harmonization in Europe, and can be considered as training material for Fingrid Datahub.
The information provided in this thesis will help Fingrid Datahub to prepare for, and identify requirements for the harmonization with the usage of CIM if it is required at some later stage.
As part of the thesis, a message currently specified for the Datahub was modelled with IEC CIM. This new data model was then compared to the information in the original message and the gaps and differences were analyzed.
The model creation exercise and the analysis shows that CIM can be used to model the Datahub message exchanges used in the process of meter data reporting. One of the key findings and recommendations of this thesis is that further analysis and similar exercises should be done for the other Datahub processes that were beyond the scope of this study.
Additionally the thesis recommends participation in various work groups and organizations and involvement in the development work of the IEC CIM standard.
This Master’s thesis focuses on one of the options for this harmonization, the usage of the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) Common Information Model (CIM) standard for modeling the data exchanged in the processes of the electricity retail market. The goal of the thesis was to provide guidelines for Fingrid Datahub, the operator of the centralized information exchange system, for the preparation and implementation of the IEC CIM based exchanges. The study also provides information about the standard and the contributing organizations to electricity retail market harmonization in Europe, and can be considered as training material for Fingrid Datahub.
The information provided in this thesis will help Fingrid Datahub to prepare for, and identify requirements for the harmonization with the usage of CIM if it is required at some later stage.
As part of the thesis, a message currently specified for the Datahub was modelled with IEC CIM. This new data model was then compared to the information in the original message and the gaps and differences were analyzed.
The model creation exercise and the analysis shows that CIM can be used to model the Datahub message exchanges used in the process of meter data reporting. One of the key findings and recommendations of this thesis is that further analysis and similar exercises should be done for the other Datahub processes that were beyond the scope of this study.
Additionally the thesis recommends participation in various work groups and organizations and involvement in the development work of the IEC CIM standard.