NMS and Communication Profiles

["Considine, Toby (Campus Services IT)" <Toby.Considine@unc.edu>]

I ran across a new (to me) acronym today—NMS. NMS (Neighborhood Management Systems) has apparently gotten some traction in Europe describing a range of software functions in support of distributed generation and the smart grid. The purpose of a NMS is the intelligent and energy efficient management of local energy network enabled by ICT (US IT with communications added) NMS also offers management expanding over life cycle (life cycle commissioning, energy profiling) and over groups of buildings supported by dynamic energy monitoring

 

The goals of NMS are to design & develop an ICT enabled solution for intelligent utilization of distributed energy  generation and local planning:

-                      Distributed energy resources

-                      Facilitate and optimize DG integration into the grid from a unique large scale supplier to multiple small scale producers

-                      “Prosumers” (Consumers becoming Producers (ouch – prosumer is worst word I’ve ever seen))

 

Uses of NMS

 

Stakeholders / Users

-           Dwellers

-           Energy providers

-           Building owners

-           Local urban planners

-           Decision makers

 

Energy network

-           Electricity

-           Heat

-           [Gas et al]

 

Energy Sources

-           Solar

-           Wind

-           CHP

-           Geothermal

 

Service

-                      To evaluate the opportunity for RES in a neighborhood

-                      To site and size DG

-                      To facilitate DG integration by focusing on the technical constraints:

-                      Reliability / voltage profile / intermittency / legal constraints

-                      To simulate and predict the behavior of a smart grid integrating intermittent generation, using weather forecast / building simulators or real time data

-                      To optimize the energy network for a good balance between use of small and large producers, CO2 restriction, loss reduction \ minimization of supply cost

 

So – what smartgrid standards are necessary to facilitate exchange of NMS information?

 

tc

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"It is the theory that decides what can be observed."   - Albert Einstein

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Toby Considine

Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical Committee

Co-Chair, OASIS Technical Advisory Board

Facilities Technology Office

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC                        Email: Toby.Considine@ unc.edu

Phone: (919)962-9073

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