The OpenADR 2.0 profile specification is a flexible data model to facilitate common information exchange between electricity service providers, aggregators, and end users. The concept of an open specification is intended to allow anyone to implement the two-way signaling systems, providing the servers, which publish information (Virtual Top Nodes or VTNs) to the automated clients, which subscribe the information (Virtual End Nodes, or VENs).

This OpenADR 2.0 profile specification covers the signaling data models between VTN and VEN (or VTN/VEN pairs) and does include information related to specific DR electric reduction or shifting strategies, which are taken at the facility. In particular, OpenADR 2.0 supports the following services from OASIS EI Version 1.0 standard or subset thereof. Extensions to these services are included to meet the DR stakeholder and market requirements:

These OpenADR 2.0 services in this specification provide information that is pertinent to DR, pricing, and DER communication requirements. These services make no assumption on specific DR electric load control strategies within the resource or market-specific contractual or business agreements between electricity service providers and their customers.

OpenADR uses an application-level data model, which is independent of transport mechanisms. For the purposes of interoperability, OpenADR 2.0 provides basic transport mechanisms and their relevant interaction patterns (e.g., PUSH information vs. PULL information) to address different stakeholder needs.

OpenADR 2.0 specifies the necessary level of security that is essential to meet the U.S. Cyber Security requirements for such purposes as data confidentiality, integrity, authentication and message-level security. Such security requirements are essential for non- repudiation and to mitigate any resulting Cyber Security risks.

OpenADR 2.0 provides a clear set of mandatory and optional attributes within each of the services to meet the broader interoperability, testing and certification requirements, while creating feature-sets with different product profiles to address today’s market needs as well as future requirements that are closely aligned to meet OpenADR goals and national interoperability requirements for Smart Grid standards.

The different product certification levels for OpenADR include OpenADR 2.0a, OpenADR 2.0b, and OpenADR 2.0b “Energy Reporting only” VENs (depicted in Figure 1). VTN certification for 2.0a will end with publication of this document, and existing implementations of 2.0a VTNs must upgrade to the OpenADR2.0b standard. For this reason, Figure 1 has no column for 2.0a VTN. 2.0b VTNs must support 2.0a VENs (and therefore comply with the OpenADR2.0a standard). VENs can be certified using the 2.0a, the 2.0b, and a 2.0b “Energy reporting only” profile. An OpenADR 2.0c or new market-specific profiles may be specified in the future. This profile specification describes OpenADR 2.0b. For the final 2.0a features, please refer to the respective specification, which is available on the OpenADR Alliance’s website – http://www.openadr.org/.