Distribution Management System: Digital grid enabler

With advanced monitoring, analysis, control, optimization, planning, and training functions, a Distribution Management System adds the smarts to your grid.What other potential does the digital technology unlock for distribution networks operators?

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Advanced power applications: DMS

Utilities need advanced power applications to meet regulatory and market needs for greater reliability and fewer emissions. Improve reliability and resiliency of your grid, optimize network operations, increase energy efficiency and quality, and reduce total cost of ownership.

Why automated systems are key?

Digitization and automation at all levels is vital in connecting users to the grid and preparing for future demands. Automation will see the human resources requirements change forever - Steve Cox, Engineering and Technical Director. #WhatsYourBoldIdea?

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RELIABLE through the storm

Keeping electricity flowing for 1.5 million households through the most extreme storms is a bold idea. SA Power Networks depends on Schneider EcoStruxure™ Grid for RELIABLE monitoring and management of their vast network, helping to keep the people of South Australia safe through extreme weather conditions.

Distribution Management System (DMS)

Our Advanced Distribution Management System (EcoStruxure ADMS) – with advanced DMS analysis to optimize network operations, combined with a field-proven SCADA system for monitoring and control, EMS for transmission operations, and an embedded OMS for improved resiliency and reliability – provides utilities with a modular and flexible platform within a common user experience, data model, integration framework, and secure infrastructure. ADMS provides advanced monitoring, analysis, control, optimization, planning, and training functions allowing utility companies to provide more reliable, safe, and efficient power.

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Distribution Management System benefits

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Provides clear and consistent real-time, forecasted, and historical views of the distribution network.

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Allows system operators, dispatchers, field crews, planning engineers, reliability analysts, and managers to work as a team - accessing the same as-operated representation of network grid information.

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Common situational awareness provides efficient and reliable management of grid operations in the face of a diverse, rapidly changing environment.

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Enables greater network reliability, improved operational efficiency, reduced operations costs, increased safety, enhanced security, support for regulatory compliance, better asset utilization, and standards-based integration.

EcoStruxure™ ADMS

A comprehensive network management solution, EcoStruxure ADMS provides more reliable, safe, and efficient energy management. Optimize your grid with our industry-leading system.

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ADMS: The Foundation of Distribution System Operations

DSOs need to cope with high DER penetration. ADMS presents specialised software tools that will help them adapt to varying conditions in real time. Read the white paper or scan the QR code to listen to the audiobook and discover the most useful capabilities.

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Delivering value to electric utilities

SA Power Networks

SA Power Networks depends on EcoStruxure Grid for reliable monitoring and management of their vast network.

Enel

Enel has upgraded their grid with EcoStruxure Grid solutions to accelerate their clean energy provision.

SICAE France

French utility SICAE uses EcoStruxure ADMS to optimize the grid and efficiently manage distributed energy integration.

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What does EcoStruxure ADMS have up its sleeve when demand for energy peaks?

Safeguarding grid reliability

How EcoStruxure ADMS reinforces the network ahead of the storm, and how it helps the grid heal afterward.

EcoStruxure™ Grid unlocks new potential

EcoStruxure Grid benefits utilities through improved flexibility and resiliency, and unlocks new approaches for commercial, industrial, and corporate electricity consumers.

Resources

Creating a reliable and secure Advanced Distribution Management System opens in new window
Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) solutions integrate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technology with other information management to enable greater automated control for more efficient distribution. This paper discusses the security criteria for making SCADA systems secure and reliable.

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Whether distributed solar plays a large role on your grid now or is expected to in the future, it’s important to determine now how it will impact your electrical distribution system so you can ensure reliable planning, adequate generation and efficient dispatch.

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The goal for any utility that invests in smart grid technology is to attain higher efficiency and reliable performance. A smart grid platform implies the convergence of Operations Technology (OT) – the grid physical infrastructure assets and applications–and Information Technology (IT) – the human interface that enables rapid and informed decision making. This paper describes best practices for migrating to a scalable, adaptable, smart grid network.

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Solar is the most abundant renewable energy source available, but the ability to harness and distribute it alongside existing sources of energy is new territory for many utilities and ISOs. Accurate forecasting of this variable resource is critical for maintaining an efficient and reliable network. This paper will discuss how innovations such as advanced distribution management systems (ADMS) combined with weather forecasting can provide visibility and modeling tools to maximize the benefits of distributed generation.

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Traditional grid outage management systems suffer from two fundamental flaws: they lack an accurate, current representation of the grid network model and they typically do not integrate with the systems that monitor and control the actual grid. These shortcomings result in longer outages, higher costs, and in lower levels of customer service. This whitepaper outlines the evolution of utility outage management and describes how new Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) tools address these two gaps.

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