1. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Priority Action Plan (PAP) 21: Harmonized Weather Information Susan Hoyler, Director, Technical Operations, SGIP Marty Burns, Technical Champion, PAP-21
Open Geospatial Consortium
Energy and Domain Working Group
March 27, 2014

2. SGIP Members Electric Utilities Manufacturers Governments & Regulators
Investor Owned Utilities, Rural Electric Cooperatives, Municipal
Renewable Power, Transmission System Operators, Retail, Financial Market
Manufacturers
Appliance, Industrial, Vehicle, Power Equipment, Communications, Information Technology, Integrators
Associations and Standards Development Orgs (SDOs)
Governments & Regulators
Federal & State agencies
Who participates in SGIP
Over 200 organizations
With over 800 users
Covering 22 Stakeholder Categories
Both visionaries and reactors
50 + member groups

3. SGIP Strategic Projects & Deliverables
Interoperability Implementation Experiences (IIE)
List of implemented Smart Grid applications
Identifying key standards implemented
Interoperability Mapping Tool (IMT)
Port, customize and operate an interactive, online tool
Include SGIP’s CoS, plus work of the DEWGs and PAPs
Business Impact of Standards Analysis Services
Develop and apply a methodology to assess business impact
Calculate benefits and costs of interoperability experiences
Educational & Informational Services
Based on the results derived from IIE and IMT programs
Identify the most relevant “vectors of influence”
Interoperability Implementation Experiences
This program will create a process to learn from Smart Grid interoperability implementation experiences -- the new “Interoperability Implementation Experiences” (IIE) program. This program will develop a list of smart grid applications that have or are being implemented that make use of key standards (both existing and emerging) or interfaces between different standards. An emphasis will be placed on standards that are in SGIP’s Catalog of Standards. The SGIMC members will be used to prioritize the applications list.
Standards Mapping Tool
This program intends to port, customize and operate a smart grid interactive Interoperability Mapping Tool (IMT). SGIP plans to license GE’s smart grid mapping tool as the basic platform to ensure coverage of the entire Smart Grid value chain. We will then expand the tool’s existing nodal database to include the SGIP’s Catalog of Standards, work of the DEWGs and PAPs, and the “Interoperability Implementation Experiences” project deliverables/standardized templates.
Business Impact of Standards Analysis Services
Future information service projects are planned to develop and apply a methodology to calculate the benefits and costs of SG interoperability for different interoperability experiences; then leverage or build upon a suitable existing methodology, if available. This analysis will be used to estimate the business impact of using standards that enable interoperability of devices and systems in the Smart Grid ecosystem.
Educational & Informational Services
Additional educational and information services are planned to be developed based on the results derived from the previous new programs (IIE and IMT). These will be designed to assist members in preparing stakeholder category and organization specific roadmaps to identify their most relevant “vectors of influence” within the Ecosystem. These services will enable member organizations to better plan projects and product deployments based on the speed, direction and impact of standards to drive interoperability.

4. Domain Expert Working Groups (DEWGs) Priority Action Plans (PAPs)
SGIP Member Groups
Membership
Domain Expert Working Groups (DEWGs)
Priority Action Plans (PAPs)
Standing Member
Committees
Architecture
Cybersecurity
Implementation Methods
Testing & Certification
Building to Grid
Home to Grid
Industry to Grid
Business & Policy
Vehicle to Grid
Distributed Renewables,
Generation & Storage
Wireless Comm - 02
Energy Storage Interconnect - 07
Distribution Grid Mgmt - 08
Standard DR & DER Signals - 09
Map IEEE 1815 to IEC
Wind Plant Comm - 16
Power Line Comm - 15
Facility Smart Grid Info Std - 17
Wholesale Demand Response - 19
Green Button ESPI Evolution - 20
EV Fueling Submetering - 22
Weather Info - 21
Conceptual Models & Roadmaps
Requirements
Use Cases
Whitepapers
Standards Evaluations
Catalog of Standards
Transmission & Distribution
SGIP Member Groups
Work Products

5. Recent SGIP Publications
Group
Title
Date
Home to Grid (H2G)
Broadcast-based H2G Communication Solutions
A simple method to deliver energy management data from an energy service provider to consumer products
Implementation Methods (SGIMC)
Case Study: Implementing the Common Information Model (CIM) at DTE Energy
The value of standards based integration using an Enterprise Semantic Model and supporting architectural concepts such as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Cybersecurity (SGCC)
User’s Guide to the Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security (NISTIR 7628 Vol. 1 – Aug 2010)
Helps utilities apply the cybersecurity guidance and leverages the DOE’s Electricity Subsector Cybersecurity Risk Management Process (RMP)
Broadcast-based H2G Communication Solutions Dec 2013
The development of this paper was motivated by a request from regulators and appliance makers for a simple method to deliver energy management data from a power utility or energy service provider to consumer products and explores a new paradigm for the consumer-centric use of broadcast tools.
 Case Study: Implementing the Common Information Model (CIM) at DTE Jan 2014
This paper presents a case study of DTE Energy’s implementation of the IEC Common Information Model (CIM) and the value of standards based integration using an Enterprise Semantic Model and supporting architectural concepts such as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
White Paper: NISTIR 7628 User’s Guide Feb 2014
While NISTIR 7628 covers many significant cybersecurity topics, this User’s Guide is focused primarily on the application of NISTIR 7628 Volume 1 in the context of an organization’s cybersecurity risk management practices. The User’s Guide provides an end-to-end implementation guide for an organization’s Smart Grid cybersecurity activities, and references the Department of Energy (DOE) Electricity Subsector Cybersecurity Risk Management Process (RMP) to provide the cybersecurity risk management framework and organizational structure needed before system-specific controls identified in NISTIR 7628 can be applied. The User’s Guide was developed with significant involvement by utilities, and is designed specifically to aid utilities in choosing and applying appropriate cybersecurity guidance found in NISTIR 7628 Volume 1 to their Smart Grid systems.

6. Upcoming Committee Publications
Group
Title
Date
SGIMC
Case Study : How San Bernard Electric Coop Used MultiSpeak to Integrate its Customer Information System and their Outage Management System
SGCC
Architecture Subgroup
“Defense in Depth and Breadth and the Smart Grid” White Paper
Cloud Computing Subgroup
“Cloud Computing Considerations in the Smart Grid — Assessing and Implementing Cloud Computing Initiatives that Potentially Impact the Smart Grid” White Paper

7. Upcoming DEWG Publications
Group
Title
Date
DRGS - Subgroup B
“Categorizing Use Cases in Hierarchical DER Systems” White Paper: Enhance the interoperability of Distributed Energy Resource information exchanges in the Smart Grid. Includes DER hierarchical architecture, variations in DER configurations, and DER functions; process for developing information exchange requirements and object models.
DRGS - Subgroup C
“Microgrid Control and Operation Use Cases”
White Paper: Complete Functional Use Cases (10) in March; all ten to be summarized in white paper in April.
DRGS-B
“DER Hierarchical Classification of Use Cases and the Process for Developing Information Exchange Requirements and Object Models” White Paper
The scope and objectives of this DRGS Subgroup B white paper are to enhance the interoperability of DER information exchanges in the Smart Grid via the following:
Provide information to the power industry stakeholders on the DER hierarchical architecture, variations in DER configurations, and DER functions.
Create DER architecture diagrams that are mapped to the European SGAM format, and cover the range of different configurations and DER management infrastructures.
Develop categories of DER use cases based on the configuration of DER grid connections, DER roles in logical and/or islanded microgrids, the kind of authority for DER management, the range of communications capabilities, and the DER types and their functional capabilities.
Describe the process for expanding the key use cases at each of the five hierarchical architecture levels to include all pertinent categories. These expanded use cases can then be used to identify information exchange gaps in international standards

8. Upcoming DEWG Publications
Group
Title
Date
H2G
“Barriers to Responsive Appliances at Scale” White Paper
B2G, H2G
“Transactive Energy for Residential Applications” White Paper
Transactive Energy (TE) combines market forces and control techniques to achieve grid balance in a retail TE environment, where renewable energy resource outputs can change quickly and unpredictably with the weather.
B2G-I2G Joint
“Electrical Storage vs. Thermo Storage” White Paper
H2G
“Barriers to Responsive Appliances at Scale” White Paper
B2G/H2G
“Transactive Energy for Residential Applications” White Paper
Transactive Energy (TE) combines market forces and control techniques to achieve grid balance in a retail TE environment. TE is needed as this environment includes an increasing percentage of renewable energy resources with outputs that can change quickly and unpredictably with the weather.
B2G-I2G
“Electrical Storage vs. Thermo Storage” White Paper

9. Harmonization Requirements
PAP21 Process Flow
Business Case
State our reason for being and success
Use Cases
Illustrate the applications space of the result
Harmonization Requirements
Derive requirements for the activity
Hand off to SSO(s)
~Feb-Mar 2014
~April-May 2014
~June-July 2014
9/23/2018

10. Business Case Outline Executive Summary
Having a more harmonized weather exchange model among the many current formats increases interoperability, improves data quality, and reduces the cost of acquisition of weather information which allows more resources to be devoted to innovative uses of weather.
Who are we?
The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) accelerates the implementation of interoperable smart grid devices and systems.
The Challenge
Detailed knowledge of weather – current, historical, and forecasted – can provide the basis for Smart Grid stakeholders to optimize current and future operations and to mitigate disruption and damage from adverse weather events.
Why Harmonized Weather Standards Will Help
In order to exploit weather data, it must first be acquired and analyzed. The process of data acquisition itself is purely overhead and does not provide any direct value. Value comes from analysis of weather data once obtained.
What Will Drive This Forward
Stakeholders in an open weather data ecosystem will thrive with harmonized and low-impedance availability of data for exchange
9/23/2018

11. Before and After PAP 21* *note – oversimplification of the standards space
WMO
IEC
other
Harmony
PAP21
CAP
MESONET
9/23/2018

12. High Level Data Organization of Weather
High Level Data Organization of Weather* Current Weather Data standards can be described this way
Observations
Forecasts
Alerts
Phenomenon
ValueSets
Phenomenon
ValueSets
Analogs
CodedValues
Analogs
CodedValues
9/23/2018
*Courtesy EPRI 2014

13. Core Weather Model Standards (1) semantics and syntax for weather information exchange – we are in the collecting stage so this will not be a comprehensive list
WMO
WMO/METECE/IWXXM
Incorporates from METAR, SPECI, SIGMET, TAF, BUFR, GRIB
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Observation and Measurement
IEC
IEC TC57WG16 Common Information Model (CIM) for Environmental Extensions IEC 62325
IEC – Part of 7-4 including wind and photovoltaics
Other Standards
OASIS CAP / Emergency Interoperability Consortium
ASHRAE FSGIM (based on WXXM)
DWML -
9/23/2018

14. Core Weather Model Standards (2) semantics and syntax for weather information exchange – we are in the collecting stage so this will not be a comprehensive list
Corporate
Earth Networks (Weatherbug) -
Weather Underground -
“K” factor standard for space weather
NASA Weather from Satellite in RETSCREEN – tool
National Mesonet Consortium
Lightening Data –
Earth Networks delivers this data
UK Met Office has a global, ground based system called ATD (Arrival Time Difference)  
WMO has a data format standard for transmitting strike data
9/23/2018

15. For More Information
SGIP has different categories of membership and depending on the type of organization and the level of participation desired, there are different membership fees. To learn more, please visit the SGIP website contact Susan Hoyler, or Patrick Gannon Contact: Susan Hoyler: Visit Talk to us today!

16. ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND

17. SGIP Member Groups Activities

18. Business & Policy (BnP) DEWG

19. Business & Policy (BnP) DEWG
Assist business decision-makers and regulators in implementing smart grid policies sensitive to interoperability
Green Button initiative
Engaged in discussions, education and outreach with utility regulatory commissioners & staff
Distributed Generation and Utilities Business Model
Differing State renewable portfolio standards
Interoperable Crew Management Systems for Storm Outage Restoration Mutual Aid Assistance scenarios
Assist business decision-makers and legislative or regulatory policy- makers in implementing smart grid policies sensitive to interoperability.
Green Button initiative
Engaged discussions with associations of regulators, such as the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC); including:
Distributed Generation and Utilities Business Model
Differing State renewable portfolio standards

20. WORKING GROUPS

21. Gas Technologies Working Group (GTWG) Activities
Proposed project in development
for pressure enabled sensors
for gas meters
Two Pronged Approach
Focus on the distribution
automation use case of pressure
monitoring
Emphasis on cybersecurity in the development of this application

22. PRIORITY ACTION PLANS

23. PAP-21: Weather Information
Identify Use Cases (UCs) that illustrate the benefits of bi-directional weather data exchange
Coordinate development of UCs with inputs from a wide range of industries
Produce a set of information requirements designed to facilitate the harmonization of information models and exchange models
Smart Grid Weather Standards There are multiple SSOs with standards development efforts related to weather information exchange:
WXXM is a general standard weather information model that was initially developed for aviation and is now and international standard of the WMO.
ASHRAE SCP201P is a building/facility information model standard focused on loads; it includes a weather model based on WXXM with minor extensions.
IEC and IEC include weather information modes for data from towers at power plants, substations, and DER. There are active efforts to include additional forecast related information into the weather models of IEC , and there is an IEC TC57 Joint Task Group on Weather UCs including WG10, WG17, and JWG25. One of the current activities is the extension of IEC schedules (IEC/TR ) to be able to carry weather forecast information to DER plants and systems.
Coordinate development of UCs with inputs from a wide range of industries
including Renewable/DER, distribution utilities, ISO/RTO markets, and forecasters
These weather information standards efforts are to a large extend uncoordinated and are in need of Smart Grid UCs to ensure coverage and interoperability for a wide range of Smart Grid weather and forecast information exchange requirements to support Smart Grid applications.

24. PAP-22: EV Fueling Submetering Requirements
Separate metering of Personal Electric Vehicle loads
Tracking of PEV electrical consumption for credits
Utility monitoring PEV loads for predictive analysis
Requirements and standards needed to specify:
Accuracy, performance, security
Utility revenue grade billing data & 3rd party billing
Data formats and certification
PAP-22 will compile the core requirements for sub metering as they apply to form factor, accuracy, performance, security, data format, and certification for embedded, portable and stationary applications.
The primary focus of this effort is to define the requirements, identify gaps and coordinate with the SDO’s to develop standards for sub metering of EV electricity fuel consumption. Though submetering requirements are common to many end-uses, there is an immediate need to address EV specific requirements.

25. Many Utility Functions Benefit from SGIP Membership
C-Level Executives
Operations
Planning & Management
Engineering
Procurement
Marketing
Customer Service
ICT
Regulatory Relations
Program Management
Many Utility Functions Benefit from SGIP Membership
It isn't just about technology decisions, either. By connecting you, in collaborative efforts, with experts from multiple disciplines and multiple vendors, this convenient access to information is invaluable to help decision-making at all levels within the company.
Your planning teams need insight into technology trends and the life-cycle of the underlying standards that enable interoperable solutions.
Standards that enable a more reliable and resilient smarter electrical grid is important to many different departments within your company.
By working with Regulatory Thought Leaders in a public and collaborative forum you gain insight into their concerns, and build or maintain critical relationships that can positively impact your future utility acquisitions.
Having access to the latest in utility-related IT and Cybersecurity expertise and technology information enables your IT department to provide more innovative, more robust, and more secure services to your company, and your customers.

26. For More Information
Contact: Susan Hoyler: Visit Talk to us today!