Towards Standardization of Deregulated Electricity Market Communications in Nigeria

摘要: The separation of vertically integrated electric power utility in Nigeria into independent entities has opened up the requirement for information and data exchange among new not only to guarantee security reliability network, but also accounting purposes. However, highly heterogeneous computing environment poses a major difficulty due different applications, databases models these enti- ties. This work presents Unified Nigerian Electricity Market In- formation Model called UNEMIM overcome this difficulty. UN- EMIM specifies uniform way describing communicat- ing electricity market data. object model XML Schema generated from are presented along with ap- plication examples. A unified will provide common language Nige- ria deregulated market. eliminate require- ment mapping multiple sources thereby overcoming challenge an depth understanding several stakeholders Nigeria. initial take off competitive during transitional period. introduction competition however brings it enormous responsibilities all stake- holders. One is infor- mation interchange. in- tegrated PHCN makes mandatory interact management monitoring system reliability, settlement purposes (3). newly created actors therefore need automate communication one another. requirements well documented Grid Code (4), Distribution (5), Metering (6) Rules (7). meter between Operator (MO) other such as Gencos Dis- cos excellent example requirements. Information ex- change be enabled by applications needed fulfilling functions roles environment. These either inherited assets or acquired developed. standardized format play very significant role automation informa- tion both inter-applications inter-corporations. It inappropriate align individual applica- enterprise model. Such approach lack uniformity consider functional respective plications corporations. through concepts domain objects that unified, application independent, consistent can maintained (8). Inter-enterprise requires agreed changing prevent development message models. seamless integration actors' proprietary standard entities, their attributes, relationships. important net- operations led adoption Common (CIM) manage network many utilities over world (9), (10), (11), (12), (13) (14). There efforts extend CIM support communications (15) (16). While adapted cater