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Utility suppliers will need reliable information about forecast demand from buildings. Enabling this collaborative arrangement between buildings and utility providers will require the development of industry standards. This need has been recognized in national efforts to develop a smart grid standards infrastructure.6,7

be used in other types as well. It may also create an opportunity for manufacturers to design products or software applications with features that intentionally make them desirable in more than one facility domain

What Will the FSGIM Look Like?
SPC 201P has adopted a set of use cases, based on work done by the Energy Information Standards Alliance,8 that are being used both to shape the resulting standard and as a test to be sure the content of the standard provides for all of the needed information exchange. These use cases define a wide range of scenarios for interaction between a facility and an energy provider. They define specific actors for the transactions and the information that needs to be exchanged to carry out the scenario. In addition to these interactions between the facility and energy provider, the information model will also address information that is needed within the facility to make control decisions when managing loads and to develop load forecasts. To meet the needs of a wide range of facility types, to enable the envisioned set of applications, and to address both internal information and information exchanges with the utility provider, the standard must be structured in a way that provides flexibility and enables creativity. The approach taken by SPC 201P is to define the information model in terms of building blocks that can be combined in multiple ways that provide flexibility and scalability. The ideas being deliberated by SPC 201P involve the definition of information components that define a load, generator, energy manager, and a meter. These building blocks can be combined to represent physical devices or systems. For example, storage has characteristics of both a generator and a load. The concepts can also be aggregated. A load may represent an individual device or a collection of devices or other loads. With this kind of flexibility it is expected that the information model components can provide all of the needed functionality. The work of SPC 201P is occurring within the context of a much larger framework of standards development to enable a future smart grid,6 and facility control systems will have to integrate with the resulting outside infrastructure. One way to help ensure that this happens is to make use of existing and developing standards where appropriate within the facility information model. The Generator model component is making use of portions of the IEC 618509 family of standards developed by the electric industry to meet their own needs for managing generators. The Energy Manager is built, in part, on draft standards under development by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) that pertain to calendars (scheduling) and energy pricing information exchange.10,11 Other source documents that are used in forming the FSGIM come from the North American Energy Standards Board12 and the National Weather Service.13 The final product will be both a written documentary standard and electronic files describing the information content of the model using Unified Modeling Language (UML). Great effort is being made to ensure that the two are exactly synchronized. The documentary portion will be most useful to applicaNovember 2011

A Facility Smart Grid Information Model Standard
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and ASHRAE have joined forces to develop one of the needed industry standards, a Facility Smart Grid Information Model (FSGIM). The purpose of the standard, being developed by ASHRAE Standard Project Committee 201P (SPC 201P), is to create a common information model to enable appliances, space conditioning systems, and control systems in homes, buildings, and industrial facilities to manage electrical loads and generation sources in response to communication with a smart electrical grid and to communicate information about those electrical loads to electrical service providers. The kinds of functionality that will be enabled by the model include: • On-site generation management; • Demand response; • Electrical storage management; • Peak demand management; • Forward power usage estimation; • Load shedding capability estimation; • End load monitoring (sub-metering); • Power quality of service monitoring; • Use of historical energy consumption data; and • Direct load control. By combining their resources, NEMA and ASHRAE can take advantage of the expertise of their members in electric meters, electrical and electronic devices, heating and air-conditioning systems, and building automation and control systems. Also involved in the process are key stakeholders with backgrounds in home appliances, industrial control, manufacturing systems, electrical utilities, and end users. One of the key concepts behind the standard is the idea of a “facility.” A facility is broadly defined to be anything from a single family house, to a commercial building, an institutional building, or an industrial or manufacturing facility. From the perspective of an electricity provider all of these facilities can be considered as loads with responsive characteristics that need to be understood and forecast. They also all have some potential to be generators. From the perspective of a “facility manager,” the kind of information that is needed to make operating decisions and the kind of actions that can be taken are similar regardless of the type of facility. By developing a common information model for all of these kinds of facilities, utility providers benefit because they may be able to interact with all of their customers in the same way. A common model also benefits consumers because the dividing lines between these different kinds of facilities are not always clear cut. Using a common model will make it easier for a product designed primarily for one of these facility types to
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011
Contents
Commentary
Industry News
Letters
Meetings and Shows
Feature Articles
Commissioning High-Tech Facilities
Streamlining Energy Simulation to Identify Building Retrofits
Technology Award Case Studies:
Laundry Upgrade
Creating a Healing Environment: Efficient Hospital
Standing Columns
Emerging Technologies
Products
Special Supplement: BACnet® Today and the Smart Grid
Commentary
BACnet: Operator Workstations
BACnet Alarming Revised
Information Model Standard for Integrating Facilities with Smart Grid
Demand Response and Standards: New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid
Getting Smart on the Electrical Grid
Washington Report
Special Section
InfoCenter
IAQ Applications
Classified Advertising
Advertisers Index
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Commentary
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Information Model Standard for Integrating Facilities with Smart Grid
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Demand Response and Standards: New Role for Buildings in the Smart Grid
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Getting Smart on the Electrical Grid
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - IAQ Applications
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ASHRAE Journal - November 2011 - Classified Advertising
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