Systems integration at Kansas City Power and Light using API and ICCP. Final report
- Kansas City Power and Light, MO (United States)
In today`s energy companies, personnel want to use system information in new ways, to lower costs, improve operations and increase customer satisfaction, and develop new products. To do so, the information from sources such as the energy management system (EMS) must be accessible to the staff who need it as well as to other applications. At Kansas City Power and Light (KCPL), planners utilized EPRI`s Application Program Interface (in the process of becoming an international Standard) to integrate key systems, and the Standard Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol to provide communications between systems. This report describes the development and implementation of a message bus interface, the ``Bus``, used by project members to connect KCPL`s EMS with its distribution facilities management system. The project also encompassed the development of a centralized database compliant with the API`s Common Information Model, and a Bus-based implementation of ICCP. The company anticipates more efficient utilization of its transmission and distribution networks as a result, as well as providing critical power system information to personnel company-wide at lower cost.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Kansas City Power and Light, MO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 362640
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR--111443
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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