OpenFIDO

California utilities, customers, consulting engineers and regulators need to exchange power system data. This can be cumbersome and error prone, raising barriers to effective resource integration, curbing growth of these resources and limiting how quickly California can reach its climate change mitigation goals.

OpenFIDO provides a framework for inter-organizational data exchange, data and model synthesis, and system performance analysis across multiple power systems tools.  OpenFIDO is used to (1) collect data from a wide variety of sources; (2) transfer model and data between tools; and (3) enable creation of permanently available reproducible results. 

OpenFIDO allows utility planners and grid researchers to move data quickly between applications. OpenFIDO supports emerging user groups including DER system integrators and aggregators who use multiple tools to analyze DER grid impacts, and governments and agencies using models for oversight and planning clean energy deployments. 

Project results include (1) data analysis requirements needed to support critical electricity use-cases; (2) a new open-source utility data interoperability and analytics workflow management platform at Southern California Edison; and (3) an open-source analytic tool delivery environment for workstation, on-premises server, and cloud infrastructure to enable key utility use-cases for commercialization by Linux Foundation Energy.

For more information on OpenFIDO see https://www.openfido.org/.

Project lead: David Chassin