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Spectrum PowerCC Generation Management
Features
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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Benefits
Spectrum PowerCC GM helps generation companies to prosper in the energy market environment by ensuring:
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.
Functions
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.
Energy Trading will be supported by fast decision tools like Market Profiles and Trade Optimizer. The Trade Optimizing Scheduler visually compares current market prices with internal production costs, as seen in 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.
System Configuration, Technical Data, Case Studies, Contact
System Configuration
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
Load Forecast
Price Forecast
Hydrothermal Coordination
Thermal Unit Commitment
Hydro Scheduling
Transaction Management
Trade Optimizing Scheduler
Market Profiles
Energy Trading, Risk & 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
Automatic Generation Control
Economic Dispatch
Ancillary Services Monitor
Archive
Storage of planned schedules, actual schedules, quotations, application save cases, SCADA data, etc.
Energy Accounting
Basic Components
Engineering system
Interfaces (SQL-Access, ODBC)
Software Development Kit (SDK)
Technical Data
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:
Spectrum PowerCC GM deploys as many off-the-shelf products as possible. This enables Siemens to concentrate future development on domain-specific issues while complying with as many standards as technically possible: further enhancing your revenue.
Case Studies
Successful customers all over the world rely on Spectrum PowerCC GM, such as:
EW Obwalden, Switzerland |
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EDP, Portugal |
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STEAG Saar Energie AG, Germany |
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Power IT, Finland |
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Fuji Matsumoto Factory, Japan |
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Alliance RTO (ASP), USA |
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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.
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
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.
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