Energy Company Business Data Model: AI-Ready Edition | Capstera

The Energy Company Business Data Model: AI-Ready Edition is for business and enterprise architects who need to know what information power generation and energy supply work runs on before an AI agent touches it. It covers 16 subject areas, 112 entities, 771 key attributes and 222 relationships. Every entity and key attribute is classified for sensitivity, with the AI uses and data-quality requirements an agent depends on. It holds the 95 entities shared across energy and utilities and the 17 specific to power generators and energy suppliers, from Energy and Utilities Business Architecture Reference Model: AI Transformation Blueprint.

What's Inside

The same model comes in three files: the full model in Word, a workbook to filter and extend, and a guide to the scales and the license.

• 16 subject areas and 112 entities, each with a definition, its typical system of record, sensitivity class, AI uses and data-quality requirements
• 771 key attributes with sensitivity and AI relevance, and 222 relationships with cardinality
• Under each entity, the capabilities that need it and the agents that read it, by name and ID
• The Business Data Model (Word): every subject area and entity in full
• The workbook (Excel): subject areas, entities, attributes and relationships in sheets you can filter and extend
• The guide (Word): the scales the model refers to, the data foundation, and the license
• Free corrections, and new versions free for 180 days

Every file names your organization and carries your license ID.

The 16 Subject Areas

The 112 entities are grouped into 16 subject areas. The list gives what each holds and how many entities it has.

• Energy Asset Investment and Capital Projects (8 entities): The energy asset portfolio and the investment cases for plants, fields, pipelines, networks and storage; the land and access rights they need; and the capital projects that design, build and commission them, phase by phase, through stage gates below the investment decision.
• Asset Register and Integrity (9 entities): The asset hierarchy that ties plants, wells, pipelines and network assets to their sites and systems; the strategy and spares for each asset class; and the integrity work that finds threats, inspects, assesses condition and decides whether an asset runs, is repaired or is derated.
• Reliability and Planned Outages (5 entities): Condition monitoring and the alerts it raises, unplanned losses of function and their causes, and planned outages: the periods a plant, unit, pipeline or network asset is out of service for maintenance, inspection or project work, with their scope.
• Field Work, Crews and Contractors (7 entities): Requests for work at sites, work packages ready for a crew, the crews themselves and where they are sent, the rounds operations staff walk, and the authorizations and competence records that let contractors and workers do site work.
• Permits to Work and Isolations (5 entities): The isolations that make equipment safe to work on, the points they are made at, bypasses of safety functions, atmospheric tests and reviews of work done at the same time and place.
• Control Room Operations (5 entities): How control rooms run plants, pipelines and networks: the operating envelopes assets must stay inside, the excursions outside them, operating instructions, the control room log and the alarms the control system raises.
• Process Safety (7 entities): Process safety at energy sites: events where hazardous material or energy escaped containment or a safety system was called on, the barriers that prevent major accidents and their tests, management of change, process hazard studies, investigations and the actions they raise.
• Environmental Operations (7 entities): Measuring and cutting emissions and discharges at sites: operating permits and the conditions they set, checks against those conditions, the sources that emit, leak surveys and the leaks they find, and spills.
• Energy Trading and Commodity Risk (9 entities): Physical and financial trading of crude oil, refined products, natural gas and power to market the organization's own output and hedge its own risk: commodities, books, trades and master agreements, forward curves, positions, trading limits and breaches, and counterparty credit exposure.
• Nominations, Scheduling and Settlement (7 entities): Moving traded energy: capacity rights on pipelines, power lines and storage, nominations, the schedules that balance trades, output and demand, the imbalances between scheduled and actual volumes, the measured deliveries that settle them, and the settlement of trades and its exceptions.
• Meters and Service Points (7 entities): The service points where energy or water is supplied at a premises, the meters that measure it, meter exchanges, meter reads and interval consumption, and the approved rules for validating and estimating reads with the exceptions they raise.
• Rates, Billing and Revenue (9 entities): Approved rates and the rate proposals and revenue requirement behind them, the service quality targets the organization has committed to, and billing: the quantities bills are calculated from, billing runs, bill calculations, billing exceptions and rebills.
• Energy Customer Supply and Payment Difficulty (6 entities): The supply side of an energy or water customer's account: supply agreements, requests to start, move or stop supply, payment arrangements for customers in payment difficulty, the protections that apply to a customer's supply, disconnection and reconnection, and consent to use consumption data beyond billing.
• Decommissioning and Site Restoration (4 entities): Retiring energy assets and sites: the decision to retire, the plan to take an asset out of service and remove or make it safe, the obligations to restore the land, and the surveys that show restoration is done.
• Generation Fleet and Dispatch (9 entities): Running a generating fleet of thermal, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar plant: generating units, their declared availability, generation plans and forecasts, dispatch instructions, fuel supply and fuel stocks, metered generation output and unit performance tests.
• Renewables, Storage and Retail Energy Supply (8 entities): Developing and running renewable sites and storage, and supplying energy to customers: renewable sites and their resource assessments, storage assets and their schedules, supply offers, customer switches, and demand response enrollments and events.

Who Uses It

Data owners and stewards, data architects, and AI and analytics engineers who need to know what an agent may read, how sensitive it is and how good it must be first; and business architects who link capabilities to data.

How It Fits With the Other Products

The capabilities named under each entity are defined in the Energy and Utilities Business Capabilities Map: AI-Ready Edition. The agents are specified in Energy and Utilities Business Architecture Reference Model: AI Transformation Blueprint, which contains this data model and adds the value streams, use cases, controls, an operating model and a roadmap. The Energy Company Value Streams are sold on their own too.