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Energy Vertical Sample Prompts

Six prompts exercising the FCC energy persona pack across transmission planning, distributed energy resource (DER) integration, wholesale market participation, substation engineering, and compliance. All prompts reference the ENTSO-E CGMES 3.0 profiles and the IEC 61970/61968 Common Information Model.

Personas Used

Persona ID Full Name Category Role in Prompts
GRP Grid Reliability Planner energy Contingency analysis, planning studies
RIP Renewable Integration Planner energy Wind/solar interconnection, curtailment
DER Distributed Energy Resources Specialist energy IEEE 1547 compliance, aggregator modeling
EMP Energy Market Participant energy Bid/offer strategy, ancillary services
SSP Substation Specialist energy Protection, SCADA, IEC 61850
ECC Energy Compliance Coordinator energy NERC CIP, FERC Order 2222, CGMES validation

Prompt 1: Grid Interconnection Study

Audience: Professional Difficulty: advanced Personas: GRP, RIP, ECC

Context

A 240 MW solar + 100 MW/400 MWh storage project requests interconnection at a 230 kV substation.

Prompt

GRP leads; RIP and ECC collaborate.

Find: from the one-line diagram and the CIM XML extract, identify
the POI bus, adjacent transformers, existing N-1 and N-1-1 margins,
and any flowgate constraints within 50 miles.

Create: run a short-circuit study delta, a steady-state power-flow
delta at summer-peak and light-load, and a transient stability
screen for the three most stressed contingencies. Produce an
interconnection cost estimate in the ISO's standard cost buckets
(network upgrades, direct assignment, distribution upgrades).

Critique: ECC to verify that the study complies with the ISO's
most recent FERC-filed tariff, that CGMES EQ/SSH/TP/SV profiles
are internally consistent, and that DER aggregation thresholds
under FERC Order 2222 are honored.

Expected Output

  • Study memo with three delta analyses
  • Cost estimate table
  • Compliance sign-off checklist

Variations

  • Replace solar with an offshore wind POI and re-screen for LVRT

Prompt 2: DER Integration and IEEE 1547 Compliance

Audience: Professional Difficulty: intermediate Personas: DER, SSP

Prompt

A community-solar aggregator wants to interconnect 38 rooftop arrays
totaling 2.1 MW behind a single distribution feeder.

Find: verify each inverter against the IEEE 1547-2018 Category B
ride-through and Category III voltage regulation profiles.

Create: recommend a unified settings package for volt-var, volt-watt,
and frequency-watt functions, and propose a SCADA telemetry contract
to the DSO using IEC 61850 GOOSE and MMS.

Critique: SSP to challenge protection coordination assumptions under
reverse power flow scenarios, especially during feeder reconfiguration.

Expected Output

  • Settings workbook
  • Telemetry contract
  • Protection critique memo

Prompt 3: CGMES Profile Authoring

Audience: Professional Difficulty: advanced Personas: GRP, ECC

Prompt

Produce a minimum-viable CGMES 3.0 model (EQ, SSH, TP, SV, DL, GL
profiles) for a three-bus, two-generator test system. Validate
against the ENTSO-E QoCDC rules; list any soft-rule violations and
explain how to remediate them. Finish with a checklist that makes
this model ready for cross-border merging with a neighbor TSO.

Expected Output

  • Six CGMES XML stubs
  • QoCDC report
  • Merge-ready checklist

Prompt 4: Day-Ahead Market Bid Preparation

Audience: Professional Difficulty: intermediate Personas: EMP, RIP

Prompt

EMP with RIP support.

Find: assemble the bid inputs - 24-hour forecast generation from a
150 MW wind fleet, day-ahead locational price forecast, and ancillary
service capability (regulation up/down, spinning reserve).

Create: construct an hourly bid curve for the ISO's day-ahead market,
separating energy from ancillary products and respecting must-offer
obligations. Include a self-schedule fallback for negative-price hours.

Critique: identify the three market scenarios under which this bid
set produces regret outcomes and propose offer modifiers that hedge
against them.

Expected Output

  • Hourly bid curves
  • Scenario regret analysis

Prompt 5: N-1 Contingency Analysis

Audience: Professional Difficulty: intermediate Personas: GRP, SSP

Prompt

Run an N-1 contingency screening over the provided 500 kV backbone
for the summer-peak case. Report every contingency that produces a
thermal overload >= 100% or a voltage violation outside [0.95, 1.05] pu.
Rank by severity index. SSP to propose three remedial action schemes
(RAS) that restore feasibility without new builds.

Expected Output

  • Ranked violation table
  • Three RAS proposals

Prompt 6: Compliance Audit of a CIM Export

Audience: Professional Difficulty: intermediate Personas: ECC

Prompt

Audit the attached CIM/XML export against NERC MOD-032, IEC 61970-452
profile requirements, and the ISO's model-change process. Produce
findings in three severity tiers (blocking, major, minor) with
recommended fixes and an estimated remediation effort in engineer-days.

Expected Output

  • Tiered findings report
  • Remediation plan

See Also

  • docs/personas/ energy pack
  • IEC 61970 and CGMES conformity assessment guidance
  • Guidebook Chapter 16 (Vertical Extensions)