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Overview

The OGC Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group focuses on the global energy and utilities community, which is defined as individuals and organizations engaged in the geospatial aspects of the planning, delivery, operations, reliability and ongoing management of electric, gas, oil and water services throughout the world. The Energy & Utilities DWG facilitates information exchange and collaboration between agencies and industry by focusing on the engagement of industry within this community. Outside of the energy and utility industry, new users of geospatial information and standards are emerging. For example, municipalities and their collaborators could benefit from access to authoritative geospatial data for community energy and emissions inventory and model development purposes. Utilities can achieve operational efficiencies in responding to such requests, by standardizing the way in which data or other information products are made available in a way that protects customer privacy and commercial interests.

The OGC Energy & Utilities DWG held a Summit at the OGC TC, June 28, 2017, in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador. The Summit was well attended and drew world class research and speakers, to provide perspectives on energy data exchange, integration, visualization, and how the standards are used (or could be) to meet the needs of Smart Energy Communities and Utilities.

Here is the Final Report for the Energy & Utilities Summit, including overview of presentations, discussion, recommendations, and action items.

Here is the Agenda for the Energy & Utilities Summit, and here are the presentations made during the Summit:

• Scott Simmons, OGC (www.opengeospatial.org) - Introduction of OGC and Energy and Utilities Domain Area
• Bruce Cameron, QUEST (www.questcanada.org) - Atlantic Canada Energy Data Roadmap Project - Overview
  
• John Simmins, EPRI (https://www.epri.com/) - Sharing of Utility Data for Smart Cities
• Victoria Gunderson, U.S. Department of Commerce - Global Trends in Smart Grid Deployment for Smart Cities
• Bruce Cameron, QUEST - Atlantic Canada Energy Data Roadmap - Critical Issues for Energy Data
• Vivian Sultan, University of California, LA: Prediction of consumer participation in solar programs using GIS and deep learning
• Prof. Thierry Ranchin, Director, Centre Observation, Impacts, Energy-MINES ParisTech: GEO VENER: Geospatial data, resources and community portal for renewable energies
• Jessica Webster, Natural Resources Canada: Data Issues, Promising Practices and Key Methods from CanmetENERGY Integrated Community Energy Mapping Research (request copy)
• Pat Brown, EPRI: Network Model Management – internal and external data dependencies
• John Simmins, EPRI – CIM for DER
• Dr. Jacinto Estima, Programme Officer, GIS & Information System, IRENA: Global Atlas for Renewable Energy
• Phylroy Lopez, NRCan, CanmetENERGY Housing & Building Simulation Platforms and Research Data Needs (request copy)
• Recap: Eddie Oldfield, Spatial Quest: Mapping for Smart Energy Communities and Utility Networks

Resources

• Subscribe to our Mailing list: https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/energy-utilities.dwg
• OGC Portal page (member login required)
• The OGC Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group Public Homepage

Work Plan

Meetings

• Most recent meeting: OGC TC, June 28, 2017
• 1st Meeting: OGC TC, March 2012

Here are a few presentations made to the DWG in prior sessions:

• SGIP and Weather Harmonization
• Semantic 3D City Models for Strategic Energy Planning in Berlin and London
• Virtual Drilling
• SGIP PAP 21

Interoperability Pilots

• OGC E&U DWG is preparing scenarios / requirements for interoperability pilots, experiments, test beds, which can produce engineering reports to demonstrate implementation of OGC standards and identify solutions / advancements in standards. The Scenarios will be listed here:
• DWG Members are able to provide input directly to Chairs, via list-serve, or using this wiki page.
• InteroperabilityExperiment

Documents from Members

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