UCAIug Annual Meeting 2009 November 9 th – 10 th, 2009 EPRI Office Charlotte, NC

AGENDA UCA International Users Group (Day 1) 0830 – 0900 Registration and Coffee 0900 – 1020Morning Session Welcome and Meeting Agenda Update on UCAiug Activities Presentation of UCAIug BoD UCAIug Testing Committee 1020 – 1040 Break 1040– 1200 User Communities Reports IEC61850 Users Group OpenSG Users Group CIM Users Group 1200 – 1300 Lunch 1300 – 1430 User Presentations: Update on NIST Smart Grid Activities - Aaron Snyder First step to harmonise CIM and IEC61850 for Smart Grid Looking at SCL as a profile - Andre' Maizener, Jean-Luc Sanson 1430 – 1500 Break 1500–1700Q&A All Meeting Participants provide input

AGENDA UCA International Users Group (Day 2) 0900–1020 UCAIug Site Strategy Session How to Use UCA/CIM/OpenSG/IECTC57/IEC61850 Sites Guidance for Group Leaders (Site Owners) Under-the-Hood with Sharepoint: Examples and Case Studies Upcoming Improvements for Smart Grid Groups 1020 – 1040 Break 1040–1200UCAIug Site Strategy SessionContinues 1200–1300Lunch 1300 – Bus Tour: McAlpine Substation DG ProjectMcAlpine Substation DG Project

UCAIug Overview Kay Clinard November 9, 2009

UCAIug Corporate Members

UCAIug 2009 User Accounts By Region UCAIug Accounts Linear Trend Line

Membership/Account Observations 1 UCAIug Members are from 49 Countries Geographically membership falls into five basic regions: – Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe & Oceania For our analysis, Africa accounts have been included with Asia Leaving four regions… » Americas – 54% » Asia – 12% » Europe - 46% » Oceania – 3%

Membership/Account Observations 2 There has been a nominal turn over in corporate accounts this year, as has been experienced in past years. Net Corporate Membership has been increasing at about two new companies per month Almost half of corporate members are outside of the Americas Newer members include companies like Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft…

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Membership/Account Observations 3 UCAIug SharePoint accounts are from 82 Countries UCAIug SharePoint accounts have increased at about four new accounts per day. Just under half of the SharePoint accounts are members and the other half are UCAIug Guests Typically the UCAIug Guest accounts represent about four times the number of companies as are corporate members There is a small underlying trend for folks to register as UCAIug Guests for a few months prior to joining.

3. We are fortunate to have a number of highly qualified candidates for the one available Vendor Position on the UCAIug Board of Directors for Please select the one candidate that you think would be the best choice. Elections BoD

Questions?

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report Testing Subcommittee Report UCAI Users Group Meeting Charlotte, Nc, USA November 9-10, 2009 Bruce Muschlitz Committee co-chair

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report16 Testing Subcommittee Charter Maintain certified product list Maintain certified tester list Maintain test procedures Assist users and vendors in application of test procedures Interpret test procedures

November 9-10, 2009 UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report 17 Group Interactions Testing Subcommittee Conformance Test Procedures Testing OpenSG Conformity CIM Testing Edge Conformity AMI ENT Conformity Security Conformity

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report18 Testing Subcommittee/ Working Group Membership Open to all UCAI User Group Members Have academic, utility, vendor, testers Each member has equal voice Please consider joining one of the Working Groups

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report Meeting summary (since 02/2009) Meetings – Met 1 time face-to-face (Pittsburgh, USA) – Met 4 times by teleconference – 3 “informal” single-issue meetings Distributech 2009 IEC TC57/WG10 Grenoble IEC TC57/WG10 Bilbao OpenSG Conformity – met once CIM Testing – meeting this week

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report Work Items Client Test procedure updated to v1.1 – Embeds PIXIT for immediate use! Merging Unit testing extensively discussed Templates for PICS/MICS/PIXIT/TICS GOOSE functionality/performance testing TCPL (TISSUEs list for test procedures) Integrating OpenSG Conformity group Integration CIM Testing group

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report21 Ongoing Work Merging Unit Test coordination with TC37 Product Mark (if still desired by users) Testing of User tools (ex, configuration) Remote testing (over Internet) Application notes outlines

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report22 Future Work Fully Integrate CIM testing group New IED types – Gateways – Ethernet Switch Software tool (SCL) testing Add performance testing Consider Interoperability testing Revise tests for Edition 2 Generate FAQs

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report23 User Questions Inter-Operability testing expectations for Do we need it? Should this be only between pairs of devices? How do we define the functions to be tested? Should we expect “no manual configuration”? (is “tweaking to pass the test” allowed?) Should we test peer-to-peer communication?

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report24 User Questions (2) Product Mark (logo for “approved” devices) Do we need it? Will it affect your purchasing decisions? Should vendors pay for it? Should tester pay for it?

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report25 User Questions (3) Integration issue feedback Has there really never been integration problems? Testing Committee is awaiting the first submission Should we offer a prize for this?

November 9-10, 2009UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report26 Questions?