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Advanced Energy Management System (AEMS)

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Advanced Energy Management System: Your solution to master renewable and digital transformation

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Digital transformation and rise of renewables

As utilities digitize their operations, their network assets need to be reliably mobilized to ensure energy transmission from multiple sources is maximized. High renewable energy penetration, intermittency and low inertia generate an increased level of threats. All of which requires a full understanding of real-time and future network status to enable a rapid response as changes occur.

 

GE’s Advanced EMS integrates the power of EMS, Renewables and WAMS  to enable operators to better operate, optimize and analyze while minimizing risk and increasing flexibility.

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Benefits of Advanced Energy Management System

Up to 100k switching operations per year

Up to 100% more VAR dispatch controls

Up to 20x faster to integrate external network model

Up to 100% renewable energy resource penetration

Up to 25% increase in transmission line capacity with DLR and WAMS

Up to 30-minute detection ahead of potential black out

AEMS Solutions

The Common Information Model (CIM) component of Network Digital Twin

CIM - Collaborative Network Model

Network Modeling Manager (NMM)

CIM is a leap forward in traditional modeling of electric networks.

 

This new application helps to manage time-based models across multiple enterprise-wide business domains (Operations, Planning, Protection) and with neighboring utilities. It provides a complete business process automation for importing, aggregating, validating, and exporting models in different formats, including CIM-16/CGMES. The models are validated for wide areas from a network security or market perspective, for the short and mid-term, and for multiple points in time.

 

Network Model Manager benefits:

 

  • Model merge and validation capabilities
  • Comprehensive Network Analysis Study for Wide Area and Look Ahead on single or merged models
  • Elimination of duplicate modeling efforts
  • Improves quality and accuracy of the model, thus reducing likelihood of errors
  • Automation of manual processes and reduced response time to complete studies

Managing conventional and renewable generation

Automatic Generation Control - Energy Management

Generation Control

These core generation applications of an energy management system operate in regulated or non-regulated markets. The applications are renewable-ready to manage a wind farm, PV injection, and storage (batteries):

 

  • Automatic Generation Control
  • Impact of DER including Storage
  • Real Time and Study Modes
  • Renewable / DER Smart Dispatch and Curtailment
  • Transaction Scheduling

 

Generation Control and Optimization benefits:

 

  • Integrate renewable and HVDC
  • Fast control
  • Optimal dispatch in cost or market environment
  • Preserve investment, thanks to extension points for special customer schemes

The power systems applications of reference

Advanced energy management system (AEMS)

Network Security and Optimization

At the Heart of the Advanced EMS solution, Network Security and Optimization ensures the network will not collapse while optimizing the operations. Key applications includes:

 

  • Contingency Analysis
  • Contingency Planning
  • Corrective Controls
  • Dynamic Line Rating
  • Load Flow Calculation
  • Loss Minimization
  • Operator Guide
  • Optimal Power Flow
  • Quick Network Analysis
  • Schemes (RAS)
  • Security Constraint Dispatch
  • Security Enhancement
  • Short-Circuit Analysis
  • Small Signal Stability
  • Special Protection Schemes and Remedial Action
  • State Estimation
  • Topology Estimator
  • Topology Processor
  • Transient Stability
  • Voltage Stability
  • Voltage/VAR Dispatch
  • Volt-Var Control (VVC)

 

Network Security and Optimization Benefits:

 

  • More power flow transfer through the network
  • Increase security with identification of true limits
  • Improve reliability
  • Preserve investment, thanks to extension points for special customer schemes

Renewable generation assessment and forecast to evaluate and correct powerflow impact

Renewable energy monitoring system

Renewable

GE Forecasting models and monitors renewable and distributed energy resources, forecasting energy production for look-ahead analysis.

 

AEMS Real-Time Multipoint Analysis (look-ahead) forecasts potential risks and AEMS Security Enhancements provides recommendations for remedial actions to operators, to optimize generation dispatch and control, and for overall improvement in grid security.

 

Renewable Energy solution benefits:

 

  • Reduces RE curtailment
  • Minimizes spinning and non-spinning reserve
  • Lowers reaction time via EMS automation layers
  • Improves forecast, thanks to multiple forecast tool blending
  • Provides operator awareness of RE generation in distribution network

From Reactive + Responsive Restoration to Prescriptive and Autonomous Restoration

Power system restoration software

Real-Time Shutdown & Restoration Manager (RTSMR)

  • Efficient assessment of a power system event
  • Restoration plan less manually driven
  • Avoid unintentional situations (de-energization, new island, non-sustainable frequency, excessive pick-up load, critical violations, etc.)
  • Create clear operator awareness of the situation and restoration steps

 

Real-Time System Restoration Manager benefits:

 

  • Faster restoration of power after islanding or blackout.
  • A what-if assessment, thanks to digitization of existing restoration plans and trial using DTS.
  • Auto-generation of new restoration plans matching available assets.
  • NERC compliance > DTS auto-validation of plans.

Automating voltage dispatch control

Voltage dispatch system

VAr Dispatch System (VDS)

  • Fast generation and demand variations requiring frequent voltage adjustment
  • Operator efficiency with hundreds of controls
  • Secure base case voltage range through the system
  • Maintain secure voltage post contingencies
  • Restoration to secure voltage after event

 

VDS benefits:

 

  • Minimize controls over time > save asset live time
  • Optimal cost activation of multiple available controls: shunts, transformer taps, SVC, and aggregated control schemes
  • Conformance monitoring

Training and study environment integrating WAMS for operators and engineers

Grid simulation software

Simulation

The Dispatch Training Simulator (DTS) is a perfect replication of a real power grid. It can be initialized from a real time and historian snapshot. The Dynamic Dispatch Training Simulator (Dynamic DTS) captures transient behavior of the power system following a disturbance or switching action. It provides sub-second simulated phasor data in the DTS environment. Dynamic DTS is a fundamental solution to enable the training of WAMS applications to facilitate operator adoption.

 

DTS and Dynamic DTS benefits:

 

  • OPEX cost savings: same technology as AEMS
  • Fast set up of simulation with real time and historian data snapshot
  • Trainee evaluation and grading
  • First EMS-WAMS simulator

 

GE AEMS is available with both options: DTS (standalone) and Dynamic DTS integrated with DTS.

Extracting value from industrial data

Smart grid analytics software

Analytics

AEMS provides a unified intelligent platform to manage data and provide operational intelligence from analytics.

 

Effective Inertia use case: renewable generation has led to a massive displacement of system inertia, requiring enhanced system visibility and understanding to deliver fast-acting response services.

 

Effective inertia measures the combined inertia-like effects of rotating machines, passive load responses, and active generator controls.

 

GE Effective Inertia metering is nonintrusive, with no injection of forced stimulation into the network. WAMS data and analytics measures effective inertia. Coupled with WAMS control, fast frequency response provide full set application. 

 

Analytics Effective Inertia benefits:

 

  • Increase network resilience
  • Prevent potential blackout
  • Reduce curtailment fees and penalties
  • Lower frequency response services cost
  • Reduce high cost spinning reserve

SCADA at the core of power systems monitoring and control

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SCADA

Power systems monitoring increasingly involves managing millions of data points. These data points come from a variety of sources, at different times, each with their own resolution and quality. GE AEMS SCADA is fully prepared to receive data using traditional protocols, and more recent ones such as IEC 61850 and IEEE C37.118 (PMUs). SCADA collects all this information in real time to:

 

  • Process in terms of validity, usability, and accuracy, and store data for future analysis.
  • Combine into a flexible, simple, or complex calculation.
  • Provide operators and other control systems with flags and alarms, which are valuable for action and control.
  • Feed advanced applications such as network security and generation dispatch.

 

SCADA benefits:

 

  • Rapidly gain access to information and insight into any anomalies
  • Fast and automated power system actions under control of authorized operators
  • Powerful and customizable calculations
  • Standard displays set and adapt to real-case scenarios
  • Historical replays for improvement and audits
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Intelligent Alarm Processor

In order to overcome the growing challenge with alarm floods overwhelming control room operators, GE AEMS now offers Intelligent Alarm Processor (IAP). IAP is a powerful application capable of:

 

  • Identifying root events causing alarms
  • Identifying related alarms and replace with more descriptive alarms
  • Suppressing nuisance alarms

 

IAP benefits:

 

  • Reduce operator workload
  • Improve understanding of system state

Make visible the invisible – A new vision of the network

Wide Area Management System (WAMS)

Wide Area Management System (WAMS)

AEMS now embeds WAMS as an integral component. Network security and efficiency is augmented as a result of data resolution provided by phasor data and associated analysis. Coupled with a model approach, hybrid EMS-WAMS can provide powerful insights for operators.

 

WAMS applications:

  • Islanding Monitoring & Management
  • Disturbance Monitoring & Management
  • Oscillation Monitoring (common and inter-area modes, and sub-synchronous)

 

WAMS benefits:

  • Increases reliability and resiliency
  • Maximizes transfer capacity
  • Delivers high renewable penetration
  • Accelerates disturbance analysis with more accurate data
Effective Inertia

Effective Inertia Monitoring & Forecasting

Renewable generation has led to a massive displacement of system inertia, requiring enhanced system visibility, and understanding to deliver fast-acting response services. Effective inertia measures the combined inertia-like effects of rotating machines, passive load responses, and active generator controls. GE Effective Inertia metering is nonintrusive, with no injection of forced stimulation into the network. WAMS data and analytics measures effective inertia. Coupled with WAMS control, fast frequency response provides full set application. 

 

Effective Inertia benefits:

 

  • Increase network resilience
  • Prevent potential blackout
  • Reduce curtailment fees and penalties
  • Lower frequency response services cost
  • Reduce high-cost spinning reserve

Digital Energy User Experience (UI/UX)

Digital Energy's UX/UI
Digital Energy's UX/UI
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Making users’ lives easier

GE Digital Energy's software now delivers an intuitive, predictive, and dynamic user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) to enhance overall situational awareness.

Proficy Historian Integration

Now GE AEMS is fully integrated to Proficy Historian Enterprise Data Historian. Check here to know more about this.

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