Resource Descriptions for Energy Interop

["Toby Considine" <Toby.Considine@gmail.com>]

As directed in this morning's call, I will include a non-normative
explanatory document within the EI release package explaining how EI uses
the product and resource descriptions from EMIX with pointers to the
relevant EMIX schema.

EMIX applies the resource and product descriptions to schedule information
to product what is called EMIX Terms.  These are the Terms of the Tender,
Terms of the Contract, Terms of the Call for Performance. Under EMIX, Terms
may originate as a Tender that is missing many of the details of a final
performance call.

EI members interested in a quick review of the resource can see the Resource
Descriptions, without the schedule / interval information, in Resource. XSD
in the evaluation package. EMIX needs comments from this group.

Personally, I would welcome a discussion of the EMIX resources within the EI
crowd before EMIX complete review is done. I have several questions in my
mind about resource definitions.

In any case, the EMIX public review announcement is below.

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"If something is not worth doing, it`s not worth doing well" - Peter Drucker

Toby Considine
TC9, Inc
TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar
TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop
U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee

  
Email: Toby.Considine@gmail.com
Phone: (919)619-2104
http://www.tcnine.com/
blog: www.NewDaedalus.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org] 
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Subject: [emix] Public Review of EMIX v1.0

To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange TC has recently approved the
following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for
public review:

Energy Market Information Exchange (EMIX) Version 1.0

Energy markets have been characterized by tariffs and embedded knowledge
that make decision automation difficult. Smart grids introduce rapidly
changing products and product availability, with associated dynamic prices.
Lack of standardized of messages conveying market information has been a
barrier to development and deployment of technology to respond to changing
market circumstances. Price and product definition are actionable
information. When presented with standard messages conveying price and
product, automated systems can make decisions to optimize energy and
economic results. In regulated electricity markets, price and products often
are defined by complex tariffs, derived through political processes. These
tariffs convey the price and product information to making buying and
selling decisions easier. The same information can be derived from market
operations in non-tariffed markets. EMIX defines the information for use in
messages that convey this actionable information. An essential distinction
between energy and other markets is that price is strongly influenced by
time of delivery. Energy for sale at 2:00 AM, when energy use is low, is not
the same product as energy for sale at the same location at 2:00 PM, during
the working day. EMIX conveys time and interval by incorporating WS-Calendar
into tenders, contracts, and performance calls. Not all market information
is available in real time. Present day markets, particularly wholesale
markets, may have deferred charges (e.g. balancing charges) that cannot be
determined at point of sale. Other markets may require additional purchases
to allow the use of the energy purchased (e.g. same-time transmission rights
or pipeline fees when accepting delivery on a forward contract). EMIX is
useful for representing available price and product information.

The public review starts today, 17 November 2010, and ends 17 December 2010.
This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for
the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. We
also welcome interested parties to join the TC as it continues to further
development of its specifications. This work was prepared in response the
the NIST SMart Grid Roadmap and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP)
Prioirity Action Plan 03 (PAP03). It is based upon WS-Calendar for the
common communication of time and schedule (PAP04) and is used extensively in
Energy Interoperation (PAP09). Please feel free to distribute this
announcement within your organization and to other appropriate mail lists.

More non-normative information about the specification and the technical
committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at [1] below.
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked "Send A
Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at [2] below.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are
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The specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/emix/emix/v1.0/csprd01/emix-v1.0-csprd01.doc
(Authoritative)
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/emix/emix/v1.0/csprd01/emix-v1.0-csprd01.pdf
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/emix/emix/v1.0/csprd01/emix-v1.0-csprd01.html
Namespace:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/emix


We also call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy applicable to the work
of this technical committee, which can be found at [4] below. All members of
the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations
regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright,
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OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if
they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so
that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work, at
[5] below.

OASIS and the EMIX TC welcome your comments.


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