Poster Abstract: Management of Topological Data in Modular Energy Management Systems
Kersten Blümel, Michael Brand, Sebastian Lehnhoff
Energy Informatics Review, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2025
Modern energy systems are undergoing rapid transformation driven by increasing decentralization, renewable integration, and sector coupling—placing unprecedented demands on control infrastructures. Traditional control systems, often monolithic and inflexible, face challenges in adapting to the modular, dynamic, and interoperable architectures required for resilient, future-oriented grid management. This paper introduces a modular and standards-based architecture for managing topological grid data within modern, modular energy management systems. At its core is a centralized Common Information Model (CIM) service that ingests standardized CIM/XML representations and delivers them in a lightweight, web-native JSON-LD format. This architecture supports event-driven, CIM version-agnostic data provisioning and enables key functionalities such as real-time state estimation, visualization, and integration with external systems. By utilizing a graph database for semantic data storage and a publish-subscribe messaging pattern, the solution promotes scalability, maintainability, and composability across diverse system components. The approach is demonstrated within the OpenEnergyTwin platform through a comprehensive proof-of-concept, underscoring its viability and alignment with the evolving needs of next-generation energy systems.
September / 2025
conference
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
14th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics
Energy Informatics Review (EIR)
