Prescription for Interoperability: Power System Challenges and Requirements for Interoperable Solutions

Energy policies, both present and future, are creating a substantial transformation of the electrical power grid and pose significant challenges to the transmission and distribution IT systems needed to control and manage this grid. As more critical business processes are automated and new devices and systems added to achieve the smart grid vision of the future, the challenge rapidly becomes one of having too much data from a variety of new and incompatible sources but too little information.