Control Center
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A world full of energy needs efficient network management
Whether in bustling cities or developing regions, prosperity and progress in our modern society are inconceivable without energy. Energy is the driving force and lifeline of our civilization – in households as much as in industry, transportation or healthcare.
One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is to supply the required energy efficiently, economically, and with minimal impact on the environment – a challenge that involves the entire chain of energy logistics from generation to transportation and distribution.
These efforts will be affected by four major factors in the coming decades: worldwide growth in energy demand, increasing urbanization, dwindling fossil energy resources, and the effects of climate change.
What needs to be done? And not just today, but in the future?
Power network operators around the globe are investing knowledge and capital to meet these new challenges. Success will depend on a number of factors, including optimized utilization of existing resources and networks, further expansion of infrastructures, and integration of decentralized and regenerative energy production with renewables.
Energy automation plays an important role in this increasingly complex landscape. It facilitates improved energy management, more flexible responses to changing demands, and increased efficiency throughout the networks – all of which ensures a high level of energy reliability at reduced cost.
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Spectrum Power
Power Control System for the energy systems of the future
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- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
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In any electric power system, the network control system is indispensable for secure, economical and reliable operation.
With Spectrum Power™, we offer you a future-oriented solution for centralized and decentralized energy management. It gives you the tools to increase the availability of your network, to respond faster and more effectively to malfunctions, and to reduce the risk of system disturbances and outages.
Spectrum Power is integrated into a powerful, end-to-end range of products and solutions which allows you to swiftly adapt your electric power system to new conditions – both today and tomorrow. Our technical and innovative concepts ensure that your network control system will continue to meet your requirements well into the future.
Spectrum Power – for the right decision in every situation
Spectrum Power gives operators a fast, reliable overview of their network, so they can swiftly know and assess its status. This fast assessment is an excellent basis for avoiding wrong decisions – and the costs that could result.
Intelligent user guidance also contributes to reliable, efficient operation. With its modern user interface and simple, consistent operational concepts, the network control system supports operational processes as well as correct actions in critical situations.
Assured access to information – anytime and anywhere
A Web-based architecture with mobile online access to all data supports decentralized operation of Spectrum Power – whether it’s for mobile system administration, fast restoration of power, or to support active participation in energy trading.
Your maintenance people receive any alarm messages simply via phone call or SMS. So you can respond from any location – from outside the plant, from workstations outside the control center or, if you’re on call, even from your home.
Reducing maintenance and operating costs – increasing network availability
Reducing maintenance and operating costs is an important way to ensure economical operation of your network. Spectrum Power contributes extensively to such cost reductions – through improved assessment of your network’s status and optimized utilization of your resources.
Maintenance management makes it possible to perform planned maintenance with perfect timing. The correction of disturbances and outages is supported by applications for fast fault localization and isolation. And the automation of switching sequences helps you restore power as quickly as possible.
You can use a simulation mode to examine planned actions and their effect on the network, without affecting real-time operations.
Security for your investments too
The data in your network control system is important and must be preserved, regardless of how technologies and platforms may develop in the future. That’s why the Spectrum Power product family relies on internationally valid standards – from data modeling compliant with IEC 61970 (CIM) to communications standards such as IEC 60870-5-101, -104, DNP, ICCP or OPC. So you’ll be ready for the future.
Thanks to open interfaces such as these, all your existing data can be simply migrated to Spectrum Power as needed. You benefit from the capabilities of new, powerful technologies – while we protect your existing investments.
For all tasks, requirements and goals
As the name implies, “Spectrum Power” covers all aspects of power management. From a range of solutions based on proven and innovative components, we confi gure your network control system as a tailored solution. Basic components for SCADA, communications, and data modeling are provided for controlling and monitoring your networks. Plus we provide additional applications to optimize your network and generation management – for everything from analytical functions for your distribution or transportation network to forecasting and optimization applications, as well as scheduling applications for generation companies.
How much performance is needed?
In addition to its functional adaptation, Spectrum Power can also be tailored to your requirements when it comes to hardware. If you’re starting out today with an all-in-one system you can expand it anytime stepwise – all the way to a redundant multi-server system.
Redundant configurations deliver the highest level of reliability for you and your customers, ensuring dependable network management around the clock.
Spectrum Power offers you a comprehensive range of functions for requirements in energy generation, network operations management and communications, including:
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).
- Data input and data modeling:
- Data modeling compliant with IEC 61970 using the Common Information Model (CIM)
- Powerful graphics editor
- Parallel multi-station engineering with job management und undo functions
- Powerful online data activation - Extensive communications options with communcation protocols
- Maintenance and outage management:
- Fault report handling
- Planning and monitoring
- Fault correction - Functions for managing transmission networks:
- State estimation
- Load flow calculation or short circuit calculation
- Contingency Analysis - Functions for managing distribution networks:
- Fault isolation and restoration of power
- Load flow calculation
- Short circuit calculation
- Expert system - Functions for energy data management
- Schedule management
- Forecasting
- Archiving
- Reporting - Functions for demand side management
- Load management for electricity and gas
- Water supply management - Functions for electric power producers
- Automatic generation control with load frequency control
- Scheduling applications
With Spectrum Power you benefit from our experience, which is based on the installation of more than 1,800 network control systems worldwide. That’s an impressive number – and so is the wide range of requirements these systems meet.
Whether for traditional utility companies, industrial companies or independent network operators, network control systems from Siemens fulfill extremely diverse requirements in different areas of power generation, transmission and distribution.
The scope and complexity of our solutions are determined entirely by your requirements. The range of solutions extends from the smallest all-in-one solution to large distributed systems with many workstations and thousands of remote access devices and field devices. This flexibility is based on a comprehensive range of consistent products and solutions that can be tailored to your individual requirements.
Global presence – local expertise
A multitude of factors must be taken into account to design your network control system correctly. Our presence in about 90 different countries ensures that we know and understand your specific requirements. And you can rely not only on our expertise but on our services, which assure the reliable operation of your network around the clock.
Innovation – for advanced development of network control systems.
Today the general requirements for electrical power systems are changing at a much faster pace than even a few years ago, and your infrastructure must keep pace with these developments. Here we support you through continual further development in all fields of energy automation. Within our global network of knowledge, we’re working today on the technologies and solutions you’ll need tomorrow.
Of course, innovation must always go hand in hand with protecting your existing investments – and we ensure that it does through the rigorous application of international standards and technology trends.
Competitive throughout the entire life cycle
Your goal in investing in a network control system is to increase your long-term competitiveness. That’s why Siemens offers you a reliable partnership throughout the entire life cycle of your system. It covers everything from professional consulting for projects of any size to configuration, installation and commissioning of the solution and its individual components. Of course we’ll also train your personal – either onsite or in our educational center.
Our worldwide service – including remote diagnosis and remote access – efficiently ensures high systems availability. And of course you can also rely on us for upgrading, expanding and replacing your power control system.
Improving company-wide information flows – with a service-oriented architecture
Thanks to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Spectrum Power is able to use other IT systems in your power system – and those systems in turn can access the services of the network control system. Standardized process, interface and messaging specifications based on the IEC 61968 and IEC 61970 standards support trouble-free data exchange between the systems.
These services include:
- data services with capabilities such as identifying the affected resources in the event of a fault
- function logic services with the capability of starting certain energy management functionalities – such as computational programs for load flow calculation
- business logic services; these coordinate the business logic functions in the different systems in relation to energy management – such as malfunction management in the network control system with the operator-owned customer information system.
These examples demonstrate how Spectrum Power integrates itself into your company’s heterogeneous IT systems landscapes and into your operational processes – so you can optimize both the power supply and communications with your customers.
With open standards you get excellent flexibility and simple handling for data migration, IT integration or system expansions. What’s more, powerful import/ export interfaces support you in connecting with GIS systems.
With Spectrum Power you benefit from our experience, which is based on the installation of more than 1,800 network control systems worldwide. That’s an impressive number – and so is the wide range of requirements these systems meet
An integral solution for Carinthia
Facts about the project:
Reliable and flexible system management – with 14 redundant servers, 18 UI workstations, 5 MMI servers with 30 X terminals and two large display projections.
With the SINAUT Spectrum 4.5.1 network control system, the Austrian distribution network operator KELAG Netz GmbH has successfully upgraded to a centralized, openended system for system and fault management. This marks the first successful implementation of an incremental data transfer from the GIS and automatic generation of a schematic plan.
The challenge:
KELAG Netz GmbH operates the bulk of the regional distribution network in the Austrian province of Carinthia. Like other network operators in this deregulated market, KELAG Netz GmbH faces the dual challenge of firstly preserving its competitiveness with reduced equipment and resources, and secondly guaranteeing a functioning power supply with a high standard of quality.
Under these circumstances, the network operator therefore opted to install centralized system management and centralized fault management for the high-voltage and medium-voltage supply networks. Since the hardware and software components previously used for its network control system had already been discontinued or were no longer available, it was a good opportunity to upgrade the system to the current version of SINAUT Spectrum 4.5.1 with up-to-date 3rd party products.
Our solution:
Siemens implemented a redundant network control system that meets all the requirements for today and the future. The SINAUT Spectrum 4.5.1 solution runs under Solaris 10 and Oracle 9i and communicates with 200 telecontrol stations using the IEC 60870-5-101 and -104 protocols.
System management and fault management were implemented centrally as required. In addition to the standard SCADA functions, a further highlight is that for the first time, technical data and geographical information are transferred incrementally from the GIS, thereby enabling a schematic plan for system management to be generated automatically.
The system also offers a wealth of additional functionalities for reliable, costefficient and flexible system management, including outage management system and load flow calculations (EMS/DMS) as well as load forecasting.
The project was completed in the winter of 2007 virtually on schedule, not least because of perfect teamwork between the two partners. With this modernization measure, KELAG Netz GmbH has increased its productivity. Downtimes are minimized and the proportion of “energy not delivered” is reduced. And naturally, the end customer also profits from the higher supply reliability.
