Phoenix-based Arizona Public Service Company (APS) is Arizona’s largest and longest serving electric utility, providing power for more than 1.1 million customers in 11 of the state’s 15 counties.

Since our founding in 1886, APS has demonstrated a strong commitment to our customers in one of the country’s fastest growing states, earning a reputation for customer satisfaction, shareholder value, operational excellence and business integrity. Our success derives from the creative and dedicated people of our company who demonstrate our core values of accountability, safety, integrity, and trust and respect.

At APS, we focus every day on our vision: “Creating a sustainable energy future for Arizona.” We will continue to meet the energy needs of our customers with a solid combination of price and service.

APS is the primary subsidiary of the Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, based in Phoenix. Pinnacle West has consolidated assets of approximately $12 billion.

Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) is an autonomous society under Ministry of Power, Government of India. Set up in 1960 by the Government of India,  functions as a centre for applied research in electrical power engineering assisting the  electrical industry in product development, Consultancy and quality assurance. CPRI also serves as an independent authority for testing and certification of power equipment as per National and International standards. CPRI's governing body includes eminent professionals from Industries, Utilities, prestigious Academic and Research Institutions and the Government. 

The officials of CPRI are members of various standardisation committees and corporate members of various bodies/organisation.  CPRI has established state of the art protocol testing laboratory which is unique in its kind in this part of the world and is being catering to its customers to develop, test and certify communication protocol related to Substation Automation and Metering as per National and International standards.

The protocol laboratory of CPRI is equipped with the facility of conformance testing of IEC 61850 compatible devices.  This test facility is accredited by Utility Communication Architecture International Users Group (UCA IUG) as Level - A  which means CPRI is an independent third party laboratory for testing of server devices for IEC 61850 compliance. CPRI is the first and only Institute in this part of the world to get this accreditation status for IEC 61850 conformance testing. 

CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power) is the largest electric utility in Hong Kong serving the business and domestic community in Kowloon, the New Territories, Lantau and most of the outlying islands. Operating a vertically integrated electricity generation, transmission and distribution business, CLP Power provides a highly reliable supply of electricity and excellent customer services to over 5.7 million people in its supply area. 

CLP Power is a subsidiary of CLP Holdings which also invests in energy businesses in Chinese mainland, Australia, India and Southeast Asia. It is the largest external investor in the Chinese mainland electricity industry, and a leading international private sector power company in the Asia Pacific region with a diversified portfolio of power generation from gas, coal, renewables and nuclear.

Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of more than 27,600 megawatts of generation, 12,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline and 6,000 miles of electric transmission lines.  Dominion operates the nation's largest natural gas storage system with 942 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves retail energy customers in 13 states.  Corporate headquarters are in Richmond, Va.

Dominion's strategy is to be a leading provider of electricity, natural gas and related services to customers in the energy-intensive Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the U.S., a potential market of 50 million homes and businesses where 40 percent of the nation's energy is consumed.

DTE Energy Co. (NYSE: DTE) is a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. 

Our largest operating subsidiaries are Detroit Edison and MichCon. Together, these regulated utility companies provide electric and/or gas services to more than three million residential, business and industrial customers throughout Michigan.  

Our electric and gas utility businesses have each been in operation for over a century. We have leveraged that wealth of experience and assets to develop a number of non-utility subsidiaries which provide energy-related services to business and industry nationwide.

Duke Energy makes life better for millions of people every day by providing electric and gas services in a sustainable way – affordable, reliable and clean.

We are one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplying and delivering energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. We have approximately 35,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Carolinas and the Midwest, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. Our commercial and international businesses own and operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin America, including a portfolio of renewable energy assets.

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.

Formed in 1948, Efacec, the largest Portuguese Group in the field of electricity, employs around 4,800 people and has a volume of orders that already exceeded 1,000 Million Euros, being present in more than 65 countries.

    Energy Solutions
            Transformers
            High and Medium Voltage Switchgear
            Service
    Engineering Solutions and Services
            Engineering
            Automation
            Maintenance
            Environment
            Renewable
    Transport and Logistics
            Transport
            Logistics

Efacec's strategy, focusing on International market, as well as important investments made in Innovation and New Technologies Development, backed by the resources of Efacec traditional technology led the Group to a position at the forefront of the Portuguese Industry and overseas markets.

Further information is available on the Web at: www.efacec.com.

FGH is a non-profit research association of electricity supply industry and electrical industry with the aim of developing and providing competence and practice-oriented technical knowledge together with its members. The bundling of these tasks and the independent safeguarding of the member’s interests attain increasing meaning in the liberalised market. Here, our members and partners from network operation, industry, service and science profit by the activities of FGH.

The co-operation with RWTH Aachen University as well as other research institutes guarantees the comprehensive coverage of the entire sphere of activity. As an interface FGH ensures a fast transfer of solutions from science into practice. FGH has a relevant share to the world-wide top-ranking of the security and quality of German transmission and distribution networks. With our services we help to protect this position in the liberalised market.

Fingrid is the electricity transmission system operator in Finland. Fingrid takes care of the functioning of the nation-wide electricity transmission system.

We transmit electricity from generating plants to industries and energy companies, thus facilitating the everyday life of all Finns. We maintain the transmission system in the proper condition and upgrade the grid as required by the electricity market. We take care of the cross-border interconnections for electricity transmission. We promote the functioning of the electricity market by maintaining sufficient transmission connections between countries.

 Key information

 Public limited company

• Established on 29 November 1996
• Operations started on 1 September 1997
• Owns the high-voltage transmission grid in Finland plus all significant cross-border connections
• Approx. 14,000 km of transmission lines
• More than 100 substations
• Customers comprise electricity producers, electricity market parties, major industrial enterprises, and distribution network operators
• Independent and impartial player
• Forerunner which is among the top-ranking companies in its business globally in terms of cost efficiency and system security

Florida State University is conducting research on:

• Network Security for Transmission and Substation Automation
• Power grid Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS), and
• Power grid Wide Area Actionable Systems (WAAS).

Gridata develops emerging technologies at the edge of the grid, where the production and delivery of electric energy meets the consumer.  The consumption of energy is accompanied by increasingly detailed data about that consumption, from sensors, utilities, third parties, and consumers themselves.  Our technologies allow consumers to unlock knowledge from that data and understand the cost of their behavior, and then participate in programs that reduce those costs, including social, environmental, and financial.

Gridata capabilities include:   consulting support for standards development, data modeling, and system design and architecture;   OEM software development for third parties launching next-generation consumer products and appliances;   test harness development for emerging compliance processes;  integration of modern sensor networks to computing platforms;    and custom data management and analytics development for residential, industrial and commercial consumer applications. 

Hydro-Québec generates, transmits and distributes electricity, mainly using renewable energy sources, in particular hydroelectricity. It is one of the biggest electric utilities in North America.

The mission of Hydro-Québec is to deliver reliable electricity service throughout Québec.The company has fully embraced the concept of sustainable development and works tirelessly to meet the needs of the present while preserving the environmental heritage and energy future of generations to come.

Hydro-Québec five year Strategic Plan relies on the know-how and commitment of all employees. It emphasizes energy efficiency, renewable energies and technological innovation.

Hypertek is a contract research and development company that specializes in the applications of software and hardware to interoperable communications to and from embedded systems. Our activities provide us with experience and expertise in commercial, military, and utility communications projects. We have experience in the development of communications standards and their application to systems.

Hypertek has strived to maintain a balance between our research and standards development activities, and, hardware and software development of products and services for our customers. This balance allows Hypertek a unique perspective increasing the depth of our work in both standards and development.

IBM is involved in more than 150 Smart Grid engagements in mature and emerging markets. More about IBM's vision to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works—how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts, can be found here: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet

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On October 01, 2009, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was founded by a merger of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universität Karlsruhe. 

KIT bundles the missions of both precursory institutions: A university of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg with teaching and research tasks and a large-scale research institution of the Helmholtz Association

conducting program-oriented provident research on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. Within these missions, KIT is operating along the three strategic fields of action of research, teaching, and innovation.

 The KIT Energy Center with its 1100 employees is one of the largest energy research centers in Europe. It bundels the energy research activities of the KIT, the merger of the former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universität Karlsruhe and reknown cooperation partners. By this, it crosses the lines between disciplines and combines fundamental and applied research in all relevant energies for industry, household, service and mobility.

NPP Mikronika (Scientific Production Enterprise Mikronika Ltd.) is an industrial company which performs design, development, provisioning, manufacture and commissioning of automated process control systems for power industry.

As a leading manufacturer of Substation Automaton Systems we have been operating on the market since 2009. We have supplied reliable and innovative products and services to Russian energy, transportation and industrial infrastructure markets. NPP Mikronika provides electric utilities with engineering and technology consulting services.

Hardware and software modularity allows implementation of different architectural solutions ranging from an ordinary data acquisition and transfer systems, to a full automated production control systems.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.

There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.

Power Analytics is a privately held developer of software solutions for the design, simulation, deployment, and preventative maintenance of complex electrical power systems.  Its Paladin® family of products helps organizations to ensure that their electrical power infrastructure is optimally designed (Paladin® DesignBase™), performs precisely as intended in terms of reliability and energy efficiency (Paladin® Live™), and operates flawlessly as organizations make real-time transitions between public and on-premise power sources (Paladin® SmartGrid™).

Paladin SmartGrid is the first commercially-available software platform designed specifically for the on-line management and control of next-generation “hybrid” power infrastructure incorporating both traditional utility power and local generation, e.g. solar power, wind turbines, battery storage, etc.  It optimizes energy consumption in multi-energy source sites, whether they are focused on a single objective – such as minimizing the annual cost, carbon footprint, peak load, or public utility consumption – or a combination of objectives that vary by time, costs, energy source reliability, etc.

Sensus is making the smart grid a reality today with nearly 9 million smart endpoints connected and communicating across more than 225 electric, water and gas utility customers.  Our industry leading AMI technology, FlexNet™, is a robust, high-powered solution based on open standards that gives electric, gas and water utilities a dedicated communications network that is designed and built specifically for smart grid applications. Unlike networks that operate in the public spectrum and must share that bandwidth with unlicensed wireless devices, FlexNet operates over protected, licensed radio spectrum, ensuring a clear communications highway. This means no frequency sharing, no interference, and no problems – period. The FlexNet system provides security and reliability for utilities’ mission critical applications, such as distribution automation, SCADA, smart metering and consumer demand response programs. Sensus is the first AMI company to achieve overall cyber security certification, earning both the Wurldtech Achilles Communication and Process Certifications.

Sensus creates innovative and evolving technology solutions that enable intelligent use and conservation of critical energy and water resources.  Sensus has led the discovery, development, and implementation of technologies for the energy and water industries for more than a century. Water, gas, and electric utility customers around the world benefit from our open, flexible products and solutions to help them optimize their resources – today and tomorrow.

Sensus is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., USA and serves customers from locations throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit www.sensus.com.

SISCO provides communication and integration solutions that supports IEC 61850 for substation automation and wide area centralized remedial action systems(C-RAS); ICCP-TASE.2 for intercontrol center communications, EMS/SCADA integration, and power plant dispatching; C37.118 with IEC 61850 for synchrophasor processing and wide area measurement systems for improved situational awareness; and the Common Information Model (CIM per IEC61970 and IEC 61968) in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Smart Grid integration using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).  SISCO's products and services include:

• Systems Integration Services
• Off-the-shelf OPC interfaces
• Protocol Source Code
• Technology and Product Training

Sparx Systems specializes in high performance and scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems.

With customers in industries ranging from aerospace and automotive engineering to finance, defense, government, entertainment and telecommunications, Sparx Systems is a leading vendor of innovative solutions based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its related specifications. A Contributing Member of the Object Management Group (OMG), Sparx Systems is committed to realizing the potential of model-driven development based on open standards.

The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect, has received numerous accolades since its commercial release in August, 2000. At present, Enterprise Architect is the design tool of choice for over 200,000 registered users world-wide.

SUBNET Solutions Inc. is a global software solutions provider for electrical utilities. SUBNET focuses on Making Substations More Intelligent®. Founded in 1992, SUBNET is an industry leader providing intelligent solutions that securely connect real time electrical utility field information with utility business systems to enable Smart Grid solutions. Over 200 utilities worldwide rely on SUBNET software to safely manage and monitor thousands of substations.

Products include:
    SubSTATION Server: Advanced data concentrator and protocol converter
    SubSTATION Explorer: A feature-rich HMI for substations
    PowerSYSTEM Server: A front-end processor to collect substation data
    PowerSYSTEM Center: Centrally manage access to substation devices

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) provides enterprise software that helps companies achieve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) success. With over 4,000 customers and offices in 40 countries, TIBCO has given leading organizations around the world better awareness and agility–what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®.

TIBCO gives organizations The Power of Now by providing innovative software that helps them pursue initiatives in three important areas:

• SOA : Helping organizations migrate to an infrastructure made up of services that can be assembled, orchestrated and reused.
• BPM : Helping organizations better coordinate the process flows that control how their assets work together.
• Business Optimization : Helping organizations convert streams of data into meaningful information and deliver it to employees, customers and partners.

"Choose certainty. Add value" is the core philosophy behind the services that TÜV SÜD provides to its clients. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, the technical service corporation is far more than a mere testing and inspection organization. As committed and responsible process partners boasting comprehensive industry expertise, TÜV SÜD’s certified experts and technical consultants provide services throughout their clients’ entire value chains, focusing on their core competencies of Consulting, Testing, Certification and Training. 16,000 employees proactively optimise technology, systems and expertise at over 600 locations in Europe, America and Asia. Several TÜV SÜD experts are members of standardization committees, like IEEE, IEC and UCA.

The TÜV SÜD provides the following Smart Grid services:

• IEC 61850 Conformance Testing
• IEC 61850 Interoperability Testing
• Enhanced Cyber  Security Testing
• Trainings for IEC 61850 and Smart Grid
• Consulting for IEC 61850 and Smart Grid

UL is a premier global independent safety science company with more than 117 years of history. Employing more than 9,000 professionals, with customers in over 96 countries, UL has five distinct business units – Product Safety, Environment, Life & Health, Knowledge Services and Verification Services – to meet the expanding needs of our customers and to deliver on our public safety mission. 

UL offers services to industries from appliances and HVAC/R to chemicals to energy to high tech and to power and controls. Our global sales offices and laboratories allow us to service customers locally – combining industry knowledge with local market understanding.

Additional information about UL may be found at www.UL.com.

The Agora Center is an internationally recognized and networked research center for interdisciplinary, innovative research on human technology and the knowledge society at the University of Jyvaskyla. It creatively combines research of high international standards from a variety of scientific disciplines with the know-how derived from its diverse partner network.

The Industrial Ontologies Group (IOG) Within the Agora Center is a research group whose main areas of interest are Semantic Web, multi-agent systems and cloud computing (http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup/). The ultimate goal of the group is the creation of Global Understanding Environment (GUN) where different heterogeneous resources (physical devices, software, humans, etc.) are capable of forming self-managed ecosystems by "understanding" and utilizing each other's services. IOG also has a long history of cooperation with industrial partners, Among UCAIug members, IOG has cooperated with Fingrid and ABB. IOG's main interest within UCAIug is CIM model and therefore CIM Users Group. We have experience of integration of heterogeneous data sources using Semantic Web technologies. We would like to find methods for easy migration from legacy systems to CIM-based systems, and their further integration.