Unified Grid Data Platform for Planning and Operations Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional planning and operation tools for electrical power grids are separate and not aligned, lacking integration to share data effectively, which hampers accurate planning and operational analysis, especially in complex and dynamic grid environments.
Innovation Solution
An integrated platform that shares a common data schema and interface for planning and operation tools, allowing access to historical and real-time data from multiple sources, enabling synchronized analysis and simulation of grid operations and changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate planning and operation tools are used, then each tool can be optimized for its specific function, but data sharing and integration between tools are poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate planning and operation tools into a unified platform that shares common data schemas, repositories, and interfaces. This integration allows both planning and operational analysis to access the same data sources simultaneously, eliminating data silos and improving analysis accuracy without requiring completely separate toolchains.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified platform is designed to serve multiple functions - both planning and operational tasks - through a common architecture. The platform provides universal data access and analysis capabilities that can be applied to different grid scenarios and timeframes, reducing the need for separate specialized tools while maintaining functional optimization.
2Productivity
If separate planning and operation tools are used, then each tool can operate independently, but data synchronization and alignment between tools are difficult
Solution Approach 1:
By combining planning and operation tools into a unified platform with shared data repositories, the system eliminates data synchronization issues inherent in separate tools. Both planning and operational tasks draw from the same data sources, ensuring automatic alignment and eliminating information loss that occurs during data transfer between separate systems.
3Measurement precision
If detailed interconnection studies are performed across multiple separate tools, then comprehensive analysis can be achieved, but the complexity of data collection and alignment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified platform merges data collection and analysis functions into a single system, allowing detailed interconnection studies to access all necessary grid data from common repositories. This eliminates the complexity of collecting and aligning data from multiple separate tools while maintaining comprehensive analysis capabilities for accurate grid operation characterization.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for simulation of electrical power grid behaviors. In some instances, a data model associated with an electrical power grid is obtained. The data model stores static data and dynamic data that can be continuously integrated into the data model based on data streams obtained from data sources associated with properties of the electrical power grid. A set of interfaces can be instantiated for querying data based on the data model. The querying is related to data from at least one of a planning analysis modeling domain or an operation analysis modeling domain from the data model related to the electrical power grid. A query associated with a first planning operation in the planning analysis modeling domain is executed. The query defines one or more nodes of the electrical power grid and relates to the planning analysis domain.