Draft Charter - Energy Market Information Exchange

I've attached a draft charter for the proposed OASIS Energy Market
Information Exchange (eMIX) Technical Committee.

This TC is intended to address the prices, market characteristics, and
other information for energy trading, buying, and selling. I was
inspired to start working on this from discussions in and around the
NIST Building-to-Grid and Industry-to-Grid Domain Expert Working
Groups, and continued interest from first round reviewers and from
people attending GridEcon 2009 in Chicago (http://www.gridecon.com --
slides are available on line at the agenda link).

From my perspective as an enterprise software architect, this fits into
a simple three layer stack with interoperation protocols (how
to communicate) as the fundamental layer. I put the Energy
Interoperation TC/OpenADR work here, with parts of the message payload
in the next layer.

The middle layer is what is communicated -- for
markets, things like price, quantity, units, time (of use), and
characteristics of the energy sold -- from source (e.g. gas-fired
plants, coal, solar, coal plant with scrubbers, wind) to derived
information (e.g. carbon data), and also trading information (is this a
bid, a price quote, an accepted transaction?).

The goal is to create an XML vocabulary that can be used in a broad
range of market exchanges with minimal differences (and where there are
differences, arranged in a simple way) for the various consumers of the
information.

The third layer is the market design and definition; since markets have
varying degrees of complexity I'm leaving this alone for now :-). This
is a potentially complex area, and an interesting one. Accordingly, I'd
like to carefully define the EMIX work to focus on layer two.

I invite you to participate in a discussion on how to improve this
charter, as well as the sorts of characteristics that are important to
energy markets.

If you would like to be listed on the charter when submitted as a
supporter, please contact me or Toby Considine.

Comments to me or (preferably) to the list. Please reference line
numbers where appropriate.

Thanks!

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William Cox

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Energy Market Information Exchange TC Charter 20090330.pdf