A collaborative engineering and validation framework for smart grid automation applications – the powerteams approach

The energy system is increasingly evolving towards a cyber-physical system of systems, mainly due to drivers such as digitalisation and integration of renewables. This inevitably increases complexity and requires an improved development process, which can also include competencies from teams with different expertise. Therefore, this work addresses the concept of a model-based, service-oriented, and cooperative development and validation platform for smart grid automation applications. The goal is to provide an architecture of an interoperable, distributed, and service-oriented ecosystem that offers modular services to collaborative development teams for automation-supported engineering over the entire life cycle of applications. This platform enables the management of engineering data, which is necessary for a continuous, transparent, and interoperable digitalisation of the energy system. In this work, the main idea of the proposed collaborative approach and its related platform is introduced and it is shown how these can be applied to selected scenarios and use cases. Finally, the first results are discussed and an outlook to further work is given.