Control Center and Energy Management Solutions
General Information
- Description
The forces driving energy market liberalization and privatization are changing the world of energy supply. Consequently, the business focus of the energy supply has shifted from supply reliability and cost minimization to competitiveness and optimization of earnings, which have become today's dominant factors and will remain so well in the future.
Today, energy supply companies are facing major challenges including competition, customer retention and satisfaction, and shareholder value. They must react quickly and flexibly to new requirements and changing market conditions. But they can only meet these challenges by reengineering and optimizing their existing business processes.
Siemens is the leading supplier for energy management and automation solutions in regulated and deregulated markets for:
- Single energy suppliers
- Multiple energy suppliers
- Municipalities
- Generation companies, transmission providers, system operators, and distribution providers in deregulated energy markets
- New participants in the business such as energy traders, balance managers, risk assessors and energy suppliers
- Operators of traction power systems for railways
- Industrial power consumers
Our understanding of your business processes - based on the experience gained from an installed base of more than 1800 control systems - enables us to ensure and consolidate your success. Meeting your needs is our business; we offer a comprehensive range of innovative, integrated and modular solutions, advanced technology, fast delivery and open systems. Our spectrum of solutions encompasses a wide spectrum of needs.
Our Portfolio (12)
Spectrum Power TG SCADA / EMS
- Description
- Functions
- Features
- Your Benefits
Spectrum Power TG SCADA – real-time performance for the modern utility network
- A richly featured system
- Scalable from a single-substation/RTU system to the largest generator in the US…to the largest distribution SCADA system in the US…to the largest control centres in the world
- Delivers high performance and reliability
- Hierarchical systems allow you to link an infinite number of systems
- Optional advanced applications
- Provision of source code reduces application development costs and vendor dependency
- Platform independent: available on Microsoft Windows®, Tru64 Unix®, and Red Hat Linux®
- Compatible with most popular office software and readily integrated in the enterprise
Data Warehouse
The Spectrum Power TG SCADA system includes a component to store data from the real-time database of your Spectrum Power TG energy management system to an offline data store. The offline data store is a common OLE and ODBC compliant relational database. This feature allows users to evaluate and report data with popular office software such as Microsoft Excel or Access, and easily distribute data throughout the enterprise.
Support applications
Add supporting applications to further extend the capability of your Spectrum Power TG SCADA system:
- TG API – The application program interface allows you to connect new software to the Spectrum Power TG system without affecting other applications.
- Control Center Gateway – The Spectrum Power TG control center gateway provides an ICCP communication interface.
Spectrum Power TG SCADA / EMS
Spectrum Power TG is the most reliable, scalable, flexible, highly available, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system on the market for electric, gas, and water utilities and railways. Optional modular components add powerful energy management applications for generation, transmission, and distribution.
The Spectrum Power TG system is designed to accommodate a broad range of utility networks. It is completely platform-neutral; available on Microsoft Windows®, Tru64 Unix®, and Red Hat Linux®.
Security enhancements help utilities comply with NERC’s Urgent Action 1200 Cyber Security requirements.
Our network system delivers the performance you expect from a system designed and optimized for utility network management.
Benefits with Spectrum Power TG
Spectrum Power TG is an industry proven energy management system (EMS) designed and optimized specifically for utility power systems to deliver unsurpassed performance and reliability.
Our product platform architecture is infinitely scalable. Our systems encompass the entire range of depth and complexity—from a single substation to 3000+ RTUs on a single DMS to the largest generator in the US—all running on the same source code. Our system allows you to grow without compromising your investment.
We offer a full set of baseline standalone or integrated solutions (SCADA, RTU, communication, etc.) and sophisticated application bundles such as network optimization, distribution automation, generation control, forecasting and scheduling, and interchange transaction processing. The broad range of field-proven solutions is available for networks in electricity, gas, water, district heating, railways, traffic control, and other similar processes. They may be used both as standalone and horizontally integrated on the same platform.
Features
- High performance real-time database
- Flexible user tools
- A complement of standard options to extend your system functionality
- Open design with an available API to readily integrate 3rd party applications
- Database management, data archiving, and reporting using popular business software
Flexibility
Powerful user tools make it easy to tailor your Spectrum Power TG EMS to your unique requirements.
- Source Database Builder – Define and manage the real-time database with common relational database tools.
- Interactive Picture Editor – Create custom world coordinate displays using what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing.
- TG ScriptCalc – Develop unique applications (modeled on the Microsoft Visual Basic with extensions for interacting with the real-time database and other system components).
Options
The Spectrum Power TG SCADA system provides a rich complement of features to effectively monitor and control your power network. A variety of optional applications is available to extend the functionality of your Spectrum Power TG system. These seamlessly integrated options provide tools that will enhance productivity and the value of your investment in a Spectrum Power TG network management system.
The Spectrum solution
We know it takes more than a great product to make a great solution. Spectrum Power TG is supported with the services to make it a great solution.
- Our migration and integration service can preserve your investment in an existing network database and assure your Spectrum Power TG system is ready to work for you right out of the box.
- Our comprehensive training services ensure your staff gets the most from your Spectrum Power system.
- With our software maintenance service you get prompt technical support through our service staff and periodic software upgrades for one low annual fee.