About ENTSO-E

ENTSO-E is the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity. ENTSO-E coordinates the cross-border system operations, system development and electricity market activities of the 43 electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) which cover 36 countries. ENTSO-E is assigned important tasks in EU legislation, including the development of Europe-wide electricity network development plans, and of more than 10 network codes which themselves become binding European laws.

The ENTSO-E Secretariat in Brussels is the focal point for technical, market and policy questions for all European TSOs in their cooperation with each other, in their joint fulfillment of their legal mandates, and in the intensive interactions with European Commission, regulatory agencies, associations representing network users and other stakeholders. The role of the TSOs and their cooperation in ENTSO-E is crucial to ensuring security of supply; completing the largest and most competitive electricity market in the world; and successfully integrating large volumes of renewable energy into the system.

ENTSO-E applies a project-aligned method of working. This covers the business case, well-defined scope and deliverables, clear roles for decision making and controlling responsibilities and plans for resources, quality and risk management.

The scope and diversity of ENTSO-E’s work has grown rapidly, and is expected to grow further with implementation of network codes and the current challenging energy policy discussions. The CIM Data Model Advisor we are seeking will contribute to this further substantial development of ENTSO-E’s work.

General position description

Seamless and cost-efficient data exchanges are needed in the context of facilitating the creation of a well-functioning European Integrated Energy Market in order to achieve EU energy policy.

Up to now, each TSO has been using its own grid model. As networks become more interconnected and as European electricity markets are getting more and more integrated, there is a need to develop a common grid model of pan-European dimension. It will ease the cooperation between TSOs and will result in an even more secure and cost-efficient pan-European grid (coordinated cross-zonal capacity calculation, coordinated security analysis). The EU has recognised the benefits that this common grid model will bring and has thus made it a legal requirement in various network codes (CACM, FCA and SO GL).

A common grid model is also required to perform studies at a pan-European or regional level: Ten-Year Network Development Plan, Middle Adequacy Forecast.

All TSOs, third parties and service providers are bound to implement and use commonly agreed and compatible data exchange formats to ensure interoperability of the individual grid models that needs to be merged into a pan-European common grid model. In the common grid model context, an exchange standard based on the IEC Common Information Model (CIM) has been selected by ENTSO-E: the Common Grid Model Exchange Standard (CGMES).

The CGMES is used in different projects including CGM Program, RSC (Regional Security Coordinators) projects and network studies. Therefore, a CGMES roadmap is being developed by ENTSO-E to coordinate the needs from the different users of the CGMES, to adapt the CGMES considering backward compatibility and to push ENTSO-E needs in a coordinated way to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

The successful candidate will support the implementation of the CGMES roadmap.

The successful candidate will work in the ENTSO-E Secretariat in Brussels and be part of the Data Exchange Standard team in the Secretariat’s Digital section. He/she will also cooperate with Secretariat’s staff across all departments in the frame of the Secretariat’s program management structure and in ENTSO-E’s future efficiency-oriented project framework.

Significant travel is required.

Specific responsibilities and tasks

Specific responsibilities may change over time.

Current tasks in the Data Exchange Standard team:

  • Interact with various projects using the CGMES (CGM program, RSC projects, Network Studies) to collect data modeling needs.

  • Perform gap analysis assessments of the network codes to ensure the coverage of the needs by the CIM standards.

  • Support CIM experts from TSOs and RSCs to find consensus to improve the CGMES.
  • Perform the maintenance and development of the CGMES data exchange UML models and documentations consensually agreed and required by various ENTSO-E business projects.

  • Act as a liaison officer for ENTSO-E in International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in the working group related to network modeling (IEC TC57 WG13). Actively participate to IEC TC57 WG13 meetings representing ENTSO-E position.

  • Lead the writing of documents in the process of becoming international standards or technical specifications.

  • Interact with experts of the European Style Market Profile of the CIM to ensure the coordination of the CIM as a whole.

Profile

  • University degree in IT, electrical engineering or a related field.

  • At least 3 years relevant work experience preferably in data management or information exchange matters, in the TSO business or electric utilities (example: IT project manager, Business analyst, data management, etc) .

  • Proven expertise in the energy sector preferably in TSO Electrical power systems modelling issues is a strong advantage .

  • Excellent skills and a strong interest in communication, for cooperating within the Secretariat, for supporting members in the Committees and facilitating consensus, and for explaining to Commission and regulators, stakeholders, politicians and the public the work products and positions of the TSOs;

  • Excellent writing and presentation skills in English .

  • Apetite to use Enterprise Architect tool for modeling business requirements .

  • Advantage: knowledge of the Common Grid Model Exchange Standard (CGMES) part of the IEC Common Information Model (CIM) .

  • Experience in data integration, interoperability, XML/XSD/RDF format, are a plus.

The Secretariat is looking ideally for a secondment from a Member TSO (for which we can give advice to TSOs and candidates on financial and tax effects) and is also open to other qualified applicants.