1. California ISO’s CIM Based Model Management
Ankit Mishra, Charlie Mogannam, Hani Alarian

2. California ISO by the numbers
71,548 MW of power plant capacity (installed capacity)
50,270 MW record peak demand (July 24, 2006)
27,488 market transactions per day (2015)
25,622 circuit-miles of transmission lines
30 million people served
237 million megawatt-hours of electricity delivered annually (2015)
As of March 2017

3. The Motivation behind CIM
Improve reliability and situational awareness in RT tools
Improve cycle time on the network model update processes
Improve reliability data integration
Facilitate market integration

4. EIM entity map
The western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) is a real-time wholesale energy trading market that enables participants anywhere in the West to buy and sell energy when needed.

5. Legacy Process

6. CIM Based Processes

7. Model Expansion

8. Network Applications
Load
Generation
Interchange

9. Considerations
Technology to process CIM Files (directly or indirectly)
Creating a “standard” layer on top of the standard (leveraging profiles)
Validating external entity’s CIM model in non-production environment (SCADA and Network Applications)
CIM is an enabler to meet the business objective
Flexibility in implementation of the standard
Localize and limit software changes to control costs
Encourage vendors to implement changes in the base software