‌Version

Date

Author

Notes

0.1

31/05/2022

SA Power Networks

Initial Draft

0.2

16/06/2022

SA Power Networks

Draft for consultation

1.0

27/07/2022

SA Power Networks

Final

1.1

28/09/2022

SA Power Networks

Consolidated following feedback

1.2

17/01/2023

SA Power Networks

Refined ramp rate validation

‌Document name

Document description

DER

Distributed Energy Resource

CSIP-AUS

Common Smart Inverter Profile – Australia v1.1

This document is a companion document to the Common Smart Inverter Profile (CSIP) designed to outline minimal changes to support Australian use cases.

IEEE 2030.5:2018

The standard communication protocol used to communicate

between Server and Client

PV

Photovoltaic

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

TP

Technology Provider

XML

Extensible Markup Language

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

UTF

Unicode Transformation Format

REST

Representational State Transfer

‌Document name

Document description

Utility Server

Server entity as described in CSIP-AUS

2030.5 Client

Communications software client to receive commands and send

measurements

Direct Client

Defined as Client in CSIP-AUS, where the 2030.5 client is hosted

for the individual DER and connects directly to the Utility Server

Gateway

On site hardware providing communications and control

functionality to DER on site acting as a Direct Client

Aggregator

Cloud system representing multiple downstream DER as defined

in CSIP-AUS, acts as the Client for these DER

Site-Level Measurement

Net reading of all generation and load at the grid connection

point