Mosaik — Scalable Smart Grid scenario specification

The development of control strategies for the Smart Grid, the future electricity grid, relies heavily on modeling and simulation for being able to evaluate and optimize these strategies in a cost efficient, secure and timely way. To generate sound simulation results, validated and established simulation models have to be used. If these models are not implemented using the same technology, the composition of simulation models is an interesting approach. We developed a composition framework called mosaik, which allows to specify, compose and simulate Smart Grid scenarios based on the reuse of such heterogeneous simulation models. In its current version, it is suitable for the analysis of Smart Grid issues that can be observed using discrete-time or discrete-event based models. In this paper we focus on the presentation of a scalable (in terms of simulated objects) scenario definition concept based on a formal simulator description presented in earlier publications.