A system for cataloguing smart power and energy devices, comprising: a memory that stores computer-executable components; a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the computer-executable components, the computer-executable components comprising: a discovery component configured to discover smart power and energy devices deployed on a network and retrieve, for each device of the smart power and energy devices, device information comprising an identity of the device and identities of data tags available on the device; a classification component configured to, for each device of the smart power and energy devices, identify a type of the device, generate a device profile for the device, and classify the device profile according to the type of the device to yield categorized power or energy data; a power analytics component configured to perform sequence-of-events analysis on the categorized power data to identify a root cause of a fault in power distribution, the power analytics component being configured to trace the root cause of the power distribution fault by analyzing historical device status information for selected devices of the smart power and energy devices as well as time-series voltage or current values measured by the respective selected devices; and a client interface component configured to generate an interface display that renders selected sets of the categorized power or energy data in accordance with search input submitted via the interface display, wherein the client interface component is further configured to render a map of a plant facility that includes a graphical indication of a location of the root cause together with a message explaining a likely cause of the fault. a memory that stores computer-executable components; a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the computer-executable components, the computer-executable components comprising: a discovery component configured to discover smart power and energy devices deployed on a network and retrieve, for each device of the smart power and energy devices, device information comprising an identity of the device and identities of data tags available on the device; a classification component configured to, for each device of the smart power and energy devices, identify a type of the device, generate a device profile for the device, and classify the device profile according to the type of the device to yield categorized power or energy data; a power analytics component configured to perform sequence-of-events analysis on the categorized power data to identify a root cause of a fault in power distribution, the power analytics component being configured to trace the root cause of the power distribution fault by analyzing historical device status information for selected devices of the smart power and energy devices as well as time-series voltage or current values measured by the respective selected devices; and a client interface component configured to generate an interface display that renders selected sets of the categorized power or energy data in accordance with search input submitted via the interface display, wherein the client interface component is further configured to render a map of a plant facility that includes a graphical indication of a location of the root cause together with a message explaining a likely cause of the fault. a discovery component configured to discover smart power and energy devices deployed on a network and retrieve, for each device of the smart power and energy devices, device information comprising an identity of the device and identities of data tags available on the device; a classification component configured to, for each device of the smart power and energy devices, identify a type of the device, generate a device profile for the device, and classify the device profile according to the type of the device to yield categorized power or energy data; a power analytics component configured to perform sequence-of-events analysis on the categorized power data to identify a root cause of a fault in power distribution, the power analytics component being configured to trace the root cause of the power distribution fault by analyzing historical device status information for selected devices of the smart power and energy devices as well as time-series voltage or current values measured by the respective selected devices; and a client interface component configured to generate an interface display that renders selected sets of the categorized power or energy data in accordance with search input submitted via the interface display, wherein the client interface component is further configured to render a map of a plant facility that includes a graphical indication of a location of the root cause together with a message explaining a likely cause of the fault.