Marty Burns, Technical Champion, marty@hypertek.us

1. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Priority Action Plan (PAP) 21: Harmonized Weather Information Marty Burns, Technical Champion, marty@hypertek.us Al Hefner, Co-Chair, NIST allen.hefner@nist.gov

2. Call to Order • Roll Call (record attendees and establish quorum) • Reminder of Antitrust Policy* • Review of Agenda • Items to Address • PAP21 Process • Weather Information Model Standards • Business Case • Use Case Development • New Business • Next Meetings • May 22nd 1:00P EDT • TBD – Find better time slot • Adjournment Agenda “*This meeting, and all SGIP activities, are governed by SGIP’s By-laws and policies, including SGIP Intellectual Property Rights Policy and Antitrust Policy.”

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6. PAP21 Process Flow ~Feb-Mar 2014 ~April-May 2014 ~June-July 2014

7. Executive Summary • Having a more harmonized weather exchange model among the many current formats increases interoperability, improves data quality, and reduces the cost of acquisition of weather information which allows more resources to be devoted to innovative uses of weather. • Who are we? • The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) accelerates the implementation of interoperable smart grid devices and systems. • The Challenge • Detailed knowledge of weather – current, historical, and forecasted – can provide the basis for Smart Grid stakeholders to optimize current and future operations and to mitigate disruption and damage from adverse weather events. • Why Harmonized Weather Standards Will Help • In order to exploit weather data, it must first be acquired and analyzed. The process of data acquisition itself is purely overhead and does not provide any direct value. Value comes from analysis of weather data once obtained. • What Will Drive This Forward • Stakeholders in an open weather data ecosystem will thrive with harmonized and low-impedance availability of data for exchange Business Case Outline

8. Before and After PAP 21**note – oversimplification of the standards space WMO IEC other PAP21 Harmony CAP MESONET

9. High Level Data Organization of Weather*Current Weather Data standards can be described this way Observations Alerts Forecasts Geometry Phenomena ValueSets Geometry Phenomena ValueSets Analogs CodedValues Analogs CodedValues *Courtesy EPRI 2014

10. WMO • WMO/METCE/IWXXM • Incorporates from METAR, SPECI, SIGMET, TAF, BUFR, GRIB • Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Observation and Measurement • IEC • IEC TC57WG16 Common Information Model (CIM) for Environmental Extensions IEC 62325 • IEC 61850 – Part of 7-4 including wind and photovoltaics • IEC 61400-25 – Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants, TC 88 • Other Standards • OASIS CAP / Emergency Interoperability Consortium • ASHRAE FSGIM (based on WXXM) • DWML - http://www.programmableweb.com/api/noaa-national-weather-service-nws • Corporate • Earth Networks (Weatherbug) - http://weather.weatherbug.com/pulseapi.html • Weather Underground - http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/ • “K” factor standard for space weather • NASA Weather from Satellite in RETSCREEN – tool • National Mesonet Program Alliance • IOOS CSV • *FL • MADIS interface (https://madis-data.noaa.gov/MadisSurface/) • Lightening Data – • Earth Networks delivers this data • WMO has data representation Core Weather Model Standards(semantics and syntax for weather information exchange)

11. OASIS CAP 1.2 http://www.pdfpower.com/XML2005Proceedings/ship/119/XML2005Paper_v2.HTML

12. National MESONET Enhanced monitoring through hyper-local weather networks https://www.earthnetworks.com/Products/MesonetSolutions.aspx

13. ICAO IWXXM ICAO Annex 3 products: METAR/SPECI, TAF, SIGMET Next-generation aviation weather products: Contours, aircraft reports, gust front, motion vector, etc. US Specializations of ICAO Annex 3 products: US METAR/SPECI, US TAF, US SIGMET IWXXM IWXXM-US WXXM 4 - Weather Information Exchange Model - WXXM - Dennis Hart - EUROCONTROL.pptx

14. IEC 62325 – CIM Environmental Extensions

15. IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25-2

16. Bidirectional Cross-Domain Use Cases

17. The following are key groupings: • Microscale weather and climate data • Renewable and/or distributed energy resources • Federation of sources and uses of weather data • Utility Operations and Markets • Climate change • Procedure (refined at meeting) – • Identify the top business oriented Use Case Topics • Review these bullets from the business case (below) • Allocate the benefits bullets to the Use Case topics • At this point we will have a small set of Key Use Cases with topic details nested under them • We then will need volunteers to help flesh out the Use Case narratives and actors lists that will form the basis of each Use Case Use Case Activity

18. Big Groupings • Microclimate data • Renewable and/or distributed energy resources • Federation of sources and uses of weather data • Utility operations • Example Business oriented Use Case: A third party energy service provider wants to establish market-based rates for selling energy from disparate renewable sources to various clients • How Customers with a building that wants to be net0 energy • Goals of the activity • Need to use initial business use case to drive participants to help PAP • Benefits to allocate to business oriented use cases • Microclimate data availability can enrich the quality and precision of weather data providing for better analysis at lower cost. • Localized microclimate data down to the customer premise combined with regional data can provide cost-effective and accurate localized energy efficiency analyses. • Standardized data allow deployment of services across territories without additional cost and tailoring. • For acquirers of services, standardization or harmonization reduces the occurrence of vendor lock-in due to compatibility as opposed to from availability of unique and excellent services. • The opportunity for value-added services is increased by the ubiquitous availability of sourced data. • Additional sources of weather that can be easily integrated create the opportunity for a large ecosystem of service providers. Today’s divergent sources of weather data impede the ecosystem due to the high cost of acquiring and integrating data. • A well-established harmonized reference reduces uncertainty about data quality. Combining information from varying sources of differing quality can result in a net more accurate forecast and analysis. This in turn can reduce the liability for predictions based on its use. Higher resolution and metadata can be available than could be cost justified due to ease of integration. • More accurate and quantitative availability of weather data can improve resilience including minimizing outage times and restorations. The costs of outages can be reduced through better preparation and coordination of first responders. Business Case Benefits Notes

19. Bidirectional Cross-Domain Weather Data Exchange: DRGS Use Cases

20. Bidirectional Cross-Domain Weather Data Exchange: EPRI Use Cases

21. Bidirectional Cross-Domain Weather Data Exchange – B2G Use Cases

22. Look at Hierarchical DER Use Case Classification and their use for gap analysis standards development • Identify those that “weather” related Hierarchical DER Use Cases