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Integrated Information Supply for Decision Support in Grid Companies

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Increasing regulatory requirements such as price cap regulation have increased the importance of strategic grid asset management. Empirical studies reveal that information supply and consolidation are error prone and long-term processes. The reason is the missing automation of extraction, transformation, and loading. The current gap does neither fulfill the requirements of regulatory nor the necessity of standardized reporting. Furthermore, a detailed planning is not enabled and the calculation of key figures is extensive. Currently, a framework that considers the coupling of financial and technical key figures, the coupling of strategic and operative key figures as well as the integration into information systems is not existent. Therefore, this paper addresses the design of a reference model as a recommendation for action to integrate the asset management within information systems. It is validated by expert interviews. Moreover, it provides information to integrate relevant financial and technical artifacts from distributed systems. Simultaneously, it provides recommendations for implementing a Business Intelligence architecture in the context of strategic decision support.

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  1. Long-term orientation and strategies are in conflict if a grid decision endures because of the long-term use of the assets (60 years). An operative decision (i.e. the choice of chain assemblies) always influences maintenance in the next 5 to 10 years and possibly determines replacements.

  2. This means that the technical interdependencies between different parameters are the foundation for financial evaluation. Maintenance and replacement are primarily technical necessities, not financial ones, even though they affect OPEX and CAPEX.

  3. The IEC Standard supports the compatibility of energy-generating tools and machinery. It measures parameters such as frequency, vibration curves, reactive power, or voltage changes in order to make them comparable independently of third party tools.

  4. In the context of this paper, neither company names nor tools are mentioned.

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Correspondence to Carsten Felden.

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Accepted after one revision by Prof. Dr. Terzidis.

This article is also available in German in print and via http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de: Felden C, Buder JJ (2012) Integrierte Informationsversorgung zur Entscheidungsunterstützung in Netzgesellschaften. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. doi: 10.1007/s11576-011-0306-y.

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Felden, C., Buder, J.J. Integrated Information Supply for Decision Support in Grid Companies. Bus Inf Syst Eng 4, 15–29 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-011-0198-9

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