Model Driven Design of IT Systems for Smart Grids

Smart Grids are complex systems interfacing power grids with information and communication technologies in order to automate decision making and balancing between production and consumption. In order to facilitate the IT engineering of these systems, we aim to provide a framework relying on executable modeling and simulation. Our main challenge is to interconnect models of the different business aspects of Smart Grids: physical models of the Energy Management System (EMS), models of the telecommunication infrastructure and behaviour models of the producers and consumers. Our solution complies with Model Driven Engineering (MDE) principles. Indeed, we rely on standards, like fUML for executable modeling and FMI for cosimulation, and model transformations to improve reusability, scalability and consistency. Our framework will be tested on the case study of the EMS of an island power grid mixing battery storage, renewable and fossil energy production.