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 PowerCC Generation Management
- Features
- Technical Data
- Benefits
- System Configuration
- Functions
- Case Studies
Profit maximization
Spectrum PowerCC GM helps you enhance revenue by providing tools for tighter control of reserves, energy trading, and the minimization of production cost. Spectrum PowerCC GM helps generation companies prosper in the energy market environment by ensuring savings in all areas of operation. It creates one environment for office, trading floor, and control center activities. And, it offers the reliability and stability that customers have come to expect from Siemens - the number one power applications provider in the marketplace.
A multi-functional software system
Spectrum PowerCC GM is a fully integrated suite of generation management applications, helping to provide a powerful solution for day-to-day operational needs. Its functions help to keep response times fast and profit high. Its field-proven technology delivers solutions quickly and easily. Over the entire breadth of your company, Spectrum PowerCC GM allows you to handle a vast array of tasks in one working environment. This saves your business valuable time and money.
Resource utilization
The future success of generation companies depends on long-term forecasting and planning of generation resources. Proper scheduling of energy production and ancillary services, monitoring, controlling, and accounting for generation resources are also decisive factors in the market. Spectrum PowerCC GM enables you to do all of this and more.
Retain and grow your customer base
Your customers will be concerned with two significant factors: the price of electricity and the reliablility of supply. Spectrum PowerCC GM helps you monitor and control these factors to help you keep your existing customers and acquire new ones.
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Spectrum PowerCC GM - the innovative and state-of-the-art technologies software
Spectrum PowerCC GM makes it easy for you to stay up to date with current and evolving industry standards. With Spectrum PowerCC GM you can upgrade new technologies and leading-edge products that keep you competitive while minimizing costs for system administration and software maintenance.
State-of-the-art technologies used within Spectrum PowerCC GM include:
- Runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 and standard PC hardware
- Open interfaces including:
- COM / DCOM
- ActiveX Controls
- XML
- Archiving system on commercial RDBMS
- Industry standard interfaces SQL, ODBC
- Web-based User Interface
- IEC 60870-5 as well as many proprietary protocols
- IEC 60870-6 TASE.2 (ICCP)
- Object-oriented design of the system, user interface and user data model
- First full CIM compliant implementation of power system data model in the marketplace
- Use of the WinCC industry standard SCADA system (based upon Windows NT)
Spectrum PowerCC GM helps generation companies to prosper in the energy market environment by ensuring:
- complete solutions including energy production management and energy trading
- one environment for office, trading floor, and control center
- easy integration of Spectrum PowerCC GM into the IT environment of the company
- savings in all areas from installation to maintenance, upgrading, and training
- the safety and the stability of Siemens, the number one power applications provider in the market place
We are committed to providing solutions for the energy market that help you save money, optimize resources and take advantage of profitable business opportunities. Let us provide the field proven technology your company needs to prosper in the energy market.
Application and features
Spectrum PowerCC GM can be used in numerous applications, giving you control over multiple aspects of your day-to-day operations. Easily upgradeable, has add-on functionality.
Long Term Operational Planning
- Annual demand forecasting
- Maintenance scheduling
- Resource optimization
- Probabilistic production costing
- Generation reliability model
- Cost minimization or profit maximization mode
Load Forecast
- Short, medium and long-term load forecast
- Native load forecast
- Modeling of sensitivity of customer loads to market price
Price Forecast
- Short, medium and long term
- Market clearing price, forward price curve
Hydrothermal Coordination
- Hydro and thermal unit coordination to minimize cost while serving the load, and planned transactions
- Potential profit maximization when run in trade optimizing scheduler mode
Thermal Unit Commitment
- Optimal commitment and scheduling of generators to meet the load: forecasted native load and planned transactions
- Potential profit maximization when run in trade optimizing scheduler mode
Hydro Scheduling
- Optimal scheduling of hydro resources to meet load and satisfy various hydraulic constraints
- Potential profit maximization when run in trade optimizing schedule mode
Transaction Management
- Power scheduling
- Different types of products (energy, ancillary services)
- Online contract reference and verification
- Audit trails
- OASIS interface to schedule transmission access (in U.S. electricity markets)
- Electronic tagging (in U.S. electricity markets)
Trade Optimizing Scheduler
- Determination of energy and reserves to bid given a forecast market clearing price for each hour of the planning period
- Potential profit maximization for a generation company
- Applicable to thermal, hydraulic and hydrothermal generation systems
Market Profiles
- Preparation of a nomograph with quick references to prices and buy / sell decisions
- Sensitivity analysis with respect to changes in load and prices
Energy Trading, Risk & Portfolio Management
- Risk assessment
- Basis and volatility management
- Portfolio management
- Reports (e.g. Position, Mark-to-Market, Value-at-risk, credit / trader limits, portfolio stress) Functional Package provided by SunGard Data Systems Inc.
Deal Entry
- Common deal entry for financial and physical aspects
- Deal entry audit
Automatic Generation Control
- Regulation of the real power output of the generating units and maintenance of the desired net delivery of the generation company
- Consideration of current delivery schedules (from Transaction Management)
Economic Dispatch
- Optimal generation allocation among the committed units to minimize production cost
- Proper consideration of reserve requirements
Ancillary Services Monitor
- Periodical calculation and monitoring of reserves, alarming of insufficiencies
- Support for reliable energy delivery
Archive
- Storage of planned schedules, actual schedules, quotations, application save cases, SCADA data, etc.
- Long term archives
- RDBMS based
- Ad hoc SQL queries
Energy Accounting
- Data averaging and minimum / maximum determination
- Support of hourly, daily, weekly, monthly reporting
- Contract-based calculations
- Accounting of ancillary services fees charged
- Accounting of transmission fees paid
Basic Components
Engineering system
- Input and update of engineering data
- Single source for all engineering data
- Retention of engineering data through software upgrade
- Object-oriented editor for field data model creation / maintenance
- Fully web-enabled user interface
- Common Information Model (CIM) object model with extensions to support full GenCo functionality
- Possibility to import engineering data from external sources (e.g. another database or an ASCII import file)
Interfaces (SQL-Access, ODBC)
- Easy integration with ODBC / OLE DB-based tools (such as Microsoft Excel)
- SQL interface to historical information
- Limited SQL interface for accessing data directly from the domain model (e.g. engineering data, real-time data or data calculated by applications)
Software Development Kit (SDK)
- Capability for functionality extensions in cost-effective manner and with minimum impact on the rest of the system
- Use of well-defined, versioned interfaces (API's)
Spectrum PowerCC GM provides generation companies with long-term forecasting and planning of generation resources, proper scheduling of energy production and ancillary services, monitoring, controlling, and energy accounting. The business process comprises preparation, negotiation, operation and accounting, as shown at the figure below.
The planning tasks are supported by accurate short, medium and long term forecast tools. Hydrothermal coordination and thermal unit commitment provide optimal scheduling of forecasted demand over the available generators. A suite of power applications, comprising AGC, Reserve Monitor and Economic Dispatch, run the available generators in realtime and with as few load changes as possible.
Spectrum PowerCC GM includes a powerful and responsive SCADA system to acquire and interact with turbines, field devices and generators. The preferred transmission protocol of data acquisition is the IEC 60870-5-101/104 protocol, however many more are available. Real time data may also be acquired from other control centers via a realtime ICCP link (IEC 60870-6). The operator views, monitors and controls the network, power plants and substations via a clear graphical overview and detailed diagrams. Dynamic topological coloring helps the operator to safely control field devices and transmit setpoints to generating units.
A subset or all data will be stored in the Historical Information System HIS for energy accounting purposes. HIS provides for statistical calculations (min, max, average, integral) over multiple time periods and provides for contract based calculations. Ancillary services fees are accounted as well as the paid transmission fees.
The powerful Information Model Manager (IMM) is the engineering tool used to import, edit and maintain data. Diagrams are created by the IMM Graphics Designer (figure on the right). The graphics designer provides a primitive graphics database, templates of all standard devices, 32 overlay panes, links from presentation object to real-time objects and the familiar MS look & feel. Network topology will be automatically derived from the graphic design. The 'smart copy' function allows adding of devices, feeders and complete substations in seconds.
Successful customers all over the world rely on Spectrum PowerCC GM,
such as:
- EW Obwalden, Switzerland
- EDP, Portugal
- STEAG Saar Energie AG, Germany
- Power IT, Finland
- Fuji Matsumoto Factory, Japan
- Alliance RTO (ASP), USA
- California Independent System Operator (California ISO), USA
About CAISO:
The California ISO is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation charged with managing the flow of electricity along California's open-market wholesale power grid. The mission of the California ISO is to safeguard the reliable delivery of electricity, and ensure equal access to a 25,000 circuit miles of 'electron highway'. As the impartial operator of the wholesale power grid in the state, the California ISO conducts a small portion of the bulk power markets. These markets are used to allocate space on the transmission lines, maintain operating reserves and match supply with demand in real time.
Siemens was selected by California ISO to provide an Energy Market Management System and Services for the Day-Ahead Integrated Forward Market and Real-Time Market Operations. The California ISO decision to implement the Siemens solution is a result of a thorough evaluation of the Energy Market Management (EMM) technology and Siemens' capability to provide a superior solution for the implementation of California ISO Market Design 2002 project.
At the core of the Siemens' software solution selected by the California ISO are the Mixed Integer Programming based Security Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) and the Security Constrained Dynamic Dispatch (SCDD) Components. Included is also the Siemens' compliant Information Model Manager to build and maintain the California ISO Transmission Network Model in support of market operations. Siemens' EMM optimally solves the centralized energy and ancillary services market claering with simultaneous transmission congestion management.
The contracted solution is unique in its modular design and open architecture, fully implemented on industry standart Oracle RDBMS, using secure Web user interfaces and contained within an enterprise application integration framework based on industry standart XML enabled message bus middleware. This advanced software architecture ensures the long-term protection of the California ISO investment in software systems, and will provide for maximum flexibility in adapting to potential future market design changes.