What is BS EN IEC 62325‑301 - Framework for energy market communications about?
BS EN IEC 62325 is a series on a framework for energy market communications. Framework for energy market communications refers to the use of different marketing channels and tools in combination. BS EN IEC 62325‑301 specifies the common information model (CIM) for energy market communications. The common information model is an abstract model that represents all the major objects in an electric utility enterprise typically involved in utility operations and electricity market management. By providing a standard way of representing power system resources as object classes and attributes, along with their relationships, the common information model facilitates the integration of market management system (MMS) applications developed independently by different vendors, between entire MMS systems developed independently, or between an MMS system and other systems concerned with different aspects of market management, such as capacity allocation, day-ahead management, balancing, settlement, etc. The object classes represented in the common information model are abstract in nature and may be used in a wide variety of applications. The use of the CIM goes far beyond its application in a market management system.
Who is BS EN IEC 62325‑301 - Framework for energy market communications for?
BS EN IEC 62325‑301 on a framework for energy market communications is useful for:
- Telecommunication sector
- Power management plant
- IT sector
- Quality control personnel
- Design engineers
- Software engineers
Why should you use BS EN IEC 62325‑301 - Framework for energy market communications?
The common information model specifies the basis for the semantics for this message exchange. The principal objective of BS EN IEC 62325‑301 is to produce standards that facilitate the integration of market application software developed independently by different vendors into a market management system, as well as integration of market management systems and market participant systems. This is accomplished by defining message exchanges to enable these applications or systems to access public data and exchange information independent of how such information is represented internally.
The common information model is an abstract model that represents all the major objects in an electric utility enterprise typically needed to model the operational aspects of a utility. This model includes public classes and attributes for these objects, as well as the relationships between them. Due to the size of the complete common information model, the object classes contained in the common information models are grouped into a number of logical packages, each of which represents a certain part of the overall power system being modelled. Collections of these packages are progressed as separate international standards. BS EN IEC 62325‑301 specifies a set of packages that provide a logical view of the functional aspects of market management within an electricity market and other functional aspects including environmental aspects that are closely related to electricity markets and that are shared between all applications. Other standards specify more specific parts of the model that are needed by only certain applications. BS EN IEC 62325‑301 provides the current grouping of packages into standards documents. Using BS EN IEC 62325‑301 you can specify the common information model for energy market communications.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN IEC 62325‑301:2018 supersedes BS EN 62325‑301:2014. BS EN IEC 62325‑301:2018 includes some technical changes with respect to BS EN 62325‑301:2014. These include:
- Environmental weather support
- Demand-side communication for North American markets
- Transparency regulations and flow-based market coupling along with network codes support for European Markets
- Registered resource updates
