Scalable Computational Tools and Infrastructure for Interoperable and Secure Control of Power System

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)

Applied Research and Development

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
National Grid Electricity Transmission

Network Innovation Allowance

Ofgem

01 October 2012

01 April 2016

42 months

£143,000

Power

London

Network Innovation Allowance

Project Contact, National Grid Electricity Transmission

The objectives of this project include the following research deliverables Investigation, development and deployment of emerging industry standards such as Common Information Model (CIM) on high performance computational platforms to fully enable interoperable power system data exchange both internally and externally to electrical power network operators, such as National Grid. Investigation and recommendation for optimal representation of distribution networks in GBSO operational planning and control processes. Secure and scalable sharing of model structures and data exchange between Distribution Network Operators and the GBSO to extend real-time large-scale power system model depth to the level recommended above. Interfacing between operational applications at the transmission or distribution network level, for example between GBSO and DNO operational planning systems. Remote NG access to assess a novel industry scale trusted cloud computing platform for secure and scalable data processing and information exchange The success of the project will be based on the following criteria The publication of the findings from the project with feasible business recommendations and improvements from the research components being identified.

It is widely accepted that as new electricity operational strategy develops pointing the way forward to 2020 and beyond, the importance of information management and in particular, the linking of business processes to information use cases, will be more critical to maintaining control of the electricity grid. Changes to current system architectures will also be necessary to cope with the level of data exchanges and computational demands. Significant changes will be required with regard to interoperable and scalable operational modelling and analysis procedures in order to secure such future transmission networks. Currently, researchers wishing for high performance Information Communication Technology infrastructure often have their choice of platform constrained beyond the optimal balance among different types of requirements: factors such as scalability, availability to collaborators, usability or policy and legal requirements around their data security are often inadequately addressed. Research This project will compare commercially available cloud infrastructures with emerging Trusted Cloud Computing technologies and review data security and provenance requirements of these multi-user inter-institutional standards and platforms. Develop and deploy emerging industry standards such as Common Information Model (CIM) on high performance computational platforms to fully enable interoperable power system data exchange both internally and externally to electrical power network operators. This processing capability could help to deliver Interfacing between operational applications at the transmission and distribution network level between Energy Management System (EMS) and Data Historian and between EMS (including future Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) and Energy Balancing Systems Assess a novel industry scale trusted cloud computing platform for secure and scalable data processing and information exchange Secure and scalable data exchange between European Transmission System Operators; Secure and scalable data exchange between Distribution Network Operators and Transmission Network Operators to extend real-time large-scale power system model depth.Note : Project Documents may be available via the ENA Smarter Networks Portal using the Website link above

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