Bill,
A few suggestions for the draft charter for the proposed OASIS
Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX) Technical Committee:
1) The draft charter states, "European markets have an
additional area of interface, between Transmission and Distribution (in
American terminology), as these are typically under separate ownership.
As time allows, or in a future update, the TC may address those needs
as well." I think it's important for your "Enterprise View" to include
these needs without fail, because
-- Customer ownership of microgrids (a la Galvin Institute's
"Perfect Power") will be likely be a critical factor in the transition
from centralized to distributed generation, globally. Distributed
generation is very much driven by new opportunities for distributed
ownership and control of energy assets.
-- Global product deployment and customer acceptance of the new
standards will require international participation, or at least
consideration of other nations' requirements, in the development of the
standards. Larger markets encourage investment, innovation, technology
convergence and lower prices, so everyone will benefit if the standards
are global. Rapid national and global market rollout of distributed
generation has important national and global security benefits and
economic benefits.
2) The Enterprise view for Smart Grid commerce standards needs
to explicitly state that ownership of each physical "feature" (meter
device, device metered, building, right of way, etc.) matters.
3) The Enterprise View for Energy Market Information
Exchange should explicitly state the need for standards to support
measurement, control and real-time buying/selling (and sometimes
regulating) not only of electricity but also of fuels and combustion
(and emissions, such as wood smoke in urban settings), water and sewage
and perhaps even bandwidth usage. Also, end user and small generator
participation in carbon trading needs to be explicitly enabled and not
inadvertently precluded by the standards. Detailed standards for the
electric power markets should come first, but as part of a
comprehensive and coherent high level "smart pipes and wires" standards
framework.
4) I missed the end of the comment period for the draft charter
of the OASIS Energy Interoperation TechnicalCommittee, so I failed to
register my comment (offered as an OGC consultant) that indoor and
outdoor spatial locations and spatial relationships matter. But this is
important for commerce as well. Geospatial standards from the Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC), ISO TC/211 and IEEE 1451 are in wide use
and need to be incorporated into the Smart Grid standards ecosystem.
OGC and the buildingSMART Alliance recently completed the first in a
planned series of multi-sponsor, multi-participant AEC-Owner-Operator
(AECOO) Testbeds in which energy is an important focus. Follow-on AECOO
Testbeds will likely involve the OGC Sensor Web Enablement and IEEE
1451 "smart transducer" standards. OASIS has a memorundum of
understanding with the OGC. The OGC's CTO is Carl Reed (
creed@opengeospatial.org).
The buildingSMART alliance contact for the AECOO testbed is Christopher
Groome (
chris.groome@b-r-t.co.uk).
The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Sensor Technology
Technical Committee is chaired by Kang Lee (
kang.lee@nist.gov).
Thank you for the opportunity to offer these comments.
Lance
Lance McKee
phone/fax: 508-752-0108
cell: 508-868-2295
On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:43 PM, William Cox wrote:
I've attached a draft charter for the
proposed OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange (eMIX) Technical
Committee.
This TC is intended to address the prices, market characteristics, and
other information for energy trading, buying, and selling. I was
inspired to start working on this from discussions in and around the
NIST Building-to-Grid and Industry-to-Grid Domain Expert Working
Groups, and continued interest from first round reviewers and from
people attending GridEcon 2009 in Chicago (http://www.gridecon.com
-- slides are available on line at the agenda link).
From my perspective as an enterprise software architect, this fits into
a simple three layer stack with interoperation protocols (how
to communicate) as the fundamental layer. I put the Energy
Interoperation TC/OpenADR work here, with parts of the message payload
in the next layer.
The middle layer is what is communicated -- for
markets, things like price, quantity, units, time (of use), and
characteristics of the energy sold -- from source (e.g. gas-fired
plants, coal, solar, coal plant with scrubbers, wind) to derived
information (e.g. carbon data), and also trading information (is this a
bid, a price quote, an accepted transaction?).
The goal is to create an XML vocabulary that can be used in a broad
range of market exchanges with minimal differences (and where there are
differences, arranged in a simple way) for the various consumers of the
information.
The third layer is the market design and definition; since markets have
varying degrees of complexity I'm leaving this alone for now :-). This
is a potentially complex area, and an interesting one. Accordingly, I'd
like to carefully define the EMIX work to focus on layer two.
I invite you to participate in a discussion on how to improve this
charter, as well as the sorts of characteristics that are important to
energy markets.
If you would like to be listed on the charter when submitted as a
supporter, please contact me or Toby Considine.
Comments to me or (preferably) to the list. Please reference line
numbers where appropriate.
Thanks!
<Energy Market Information Exchange TC Charter
20090330.pdf>
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