Energy Role Ontology

Description

Purpose

The Energy Role ontology is dedicated to business parties, their intended behaviour and relationships with other elements involved in energy market business processes.

Scope

The Energy Role ontology defines three generic concepts: business parties (participant), business roles (role) and their relationships (association). Roles are further refined in classifications specific to electromobility, flexibility and local energy communities domains.

Competency Questions

ID	Question in natural language	Example
cq-1	Get the list of Charge Point Operators.
cq-2	Get the list of eMobility Service Providers.
cq-3	Get the list of market participants that are altogether Charge Point Operators and eMobility Service Providers.

Glossary

Market Participant: (source IEC 62325-351 Ed.3) The identification of the party participating in energy market business processes.
Market Role: (source IEC 62325-351 Ed.3) The identification of the intended behaviour of a market participant played within a given business process.
Association: (source The PROV Namespace) An instance of prov:Association provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasAssociatedWith relation from an prov:Activity to some prov:Agent that had some responsiblity for it.

OWL Description

The Energy Role Ontology contains a generic model and specific classifications for electromobility, local energy community and flexibility: - Generic model Diagram

Recommendations

When used as datatype property of 'role:MarketParticipant', it is recommended to give to 'role:identifier' a value delivered by an authorized authority.
When used as datatype properties of 'role:MarketRole', it is recommended to give to 'role:identifier' and 'role:name' values recognised by a standard role model (https://eepublicdownloads.entsoe.eu/clean-documents/EDI/Library/HRM/Harmonised_Role_Model_2022-01.pdf, for instance).