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Title: A Transparent Translation from Legacy System Model into Common Information Model: Preprint

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OSTI ID:1435903
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  1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Advance in smart grid is forcing utilities towards better monitoring, control and analysis of distribution systems, and requires extensive cyber-based intelligent systems and applications to realize various functionalities. The ability of systems, or components within systems, to interact and exchange services or information with each other is the key to the success of smart grid technologies, and it requires efficient information exchanging and data sharing infrastructure. The Common Information Model (CIM) is a standard that allows different applications to exchange information about an electrical system, and it has become a widely accepted solution for information exchange among different platforms and applications. However, most existing legacy systems are not developed using CIM, but using their own languages. Integrating such legacy systems is a challenge for utilities, and the appropriate utilization of the integrated legacy systems is even more intricate. Thus, this paper has developed an approach and open-source tool in order to translate legacy system models into CIM format. The developed tool is tested for a commercial distribution management system and simulation results have proved its effectiveness.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1435903
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5D00-68994
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Society Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exhibition, 16-19 April 2018, Denver, Colorado
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English