© July 2008 Telvent DMS

DMS, AMI and the Smart Grid

1. Smart Grid Drivers and Concepts

2. DMS, AMI, and Business Value

3. DMS in Smart Grid – DG implementation

4. Usage of AMI in DMS

5. Integration: Key to Smart Grid Success

Smart Grid Solution

Key Smart Grid Market Drivers
Regulatory
Industry

Aging Infra-
Emerging
Structure/ Economic
Technology
Workforce

Demand The
Growing
Isolated
Growth/ Smart Demand
Systems
Dist Gen Grid

Efficiency
Climate
and
Industry
Change
Reliability
Efficiency
Technology
and
Advances
Reliability
 Key Smart Grid Technology
Drivers Advanced power electronics:
Network Management: Flexible Alternating Current
OMS, SCADA, GIS Systems (FACTS devices)

Smart Metering:
AMR, AMI, remote measurement, New materials:
remote control, remote Semiconductor-based power
indication Smart Grids electronics, nano-science

Customer Information System:

Technology High Temperature
Superconductors:
Billing, pricing and reporting,
connection to ERP
Drivers HTS generators, transformers,
and cables

Demand Side Management Distributed energy resources:

Direct load control, household Distributed energy generation
load management, industrial and combined heat and power
load management systems

Network Optimization: Electricity storage & VPP:

EMS, DMS, Network Planning, Virtual generation, electric vehicles,
Asset Management hybrid-, mini-, micro power plants
 Principal Characteristics of the Smart Grid

1. Optimizes performance and resource using

2. Better insight in distribution network
3. Education of staff/what if analysis
4. Operates efficiently/decreasing
costs/postponement of investment
5. Self-healing and adaptive
6. Provides high quality power
7. Resists disturbances, natural and man-made
8. Interactive with consumers and markets
 The Challenge
ƒ To transform the current utility grid into one
that distributes electricity more efficiently and
securely, while meeting the demands of a
changing society in a sustainable way
ƒ Through logical, systematic steps
ƒ Taking advantage of the best resources available
ƒ Recognizing that time is not on our side
 Smart Metering
•AMI
Smart Operations •Meter Ops.
Data
Mgmt
Mgmt.
•Meter Ops.
Data
Mgmt.
Mgmt
•SCADA
•DMS Integration
and
•OMS Business
Process
•GIS Smart Networks
•RTUs/ITUs
•IEDs
•Field Sensors
•Integration
The Smart Grid
Solution
 AMI/DMS/OMS core of system distribution
management
ƒ Complete insight into MV and LV state
ƒ Radical improvement of distribution state estimation
results
ƒ More precise determination of energy losses and
commercial losses
ƒ Energy balance calculation
ƒ Improving Fault management
ƒ Shorter outage time and removing violations in
network (voltage, current)
ƒ Improving power system quality and customer
satisfaction
ƒ Providing load management and emergency load
shedding
 Short circuit and impact of DG to circuit breakers
ƒ Increasing short circuit current on fault location

ƒ DC caused by DG has time constant greater then usual

for circuit breaker (45 ms according IEC 56 – this value
can be overreached; consequence is unsafe operation
of circuit breaker).

ƒ Short circuit current does not decrease along the feeder

with DGs
Increasing short circuit current on fault location
Impact of DG to circuit breaker

<45
>45 ms
Correct value!!!
Problem!!!
Decreasing/increasing short circuit
current along the feeder with DGs
Settings of relay protection and tuning of selectivity with
multiple DGs

ƒ Selectivity problem

ƒ More complex relay protection settings

ƒ More complex relay solutions are required –

like directional relays
 II=749
749 A

Problem:
Unnecessary relay tripping
I=8679 A

Solution ???
 DGs operation in loop

ƒ Selectivity problem

ƒ Solution cannot be achieved by existing protection

ƒ Sometimes additional separate line for DGs is required

Selectivity problem in loop with DGs

Problem:
Unnecessary relay tripping

Solution ???
Integration - Key to Smart Grid Success:
AMI integration (requirements)
ƒ Have information of individual consumers (id, rated power, actual power, in
service) in DMS
ƒ Have the ability to import individual consumers information (id, rated
power, actual power, in service) from an external system (typically CIS)
ƒ Have the ability to build the Load curve associated to a bus bar (LV or MV)
based on the customers connected to the bus bar and their individual data
imported from an external system (typically CIS)
ƒ Have the ability to periodically update the customers associated to each
load curve and their rated power (typically AMI/MDM)
ƒ Have the ability to adjust the load curves based on the values that are
received from AMI or retrieved from an MDM
ƒ Have the ability to update the actual value of power associated to a load
curve based on the values received from AMI
ƒ Have the ability to improve fault management based on real-time
information received from SCADA, OMS and AMI
Detect outages in non “visible” parts of the network
(Fault Location)

ƒ The system should detect outages in the network based on the

difference of power in the current state and the previous state. This may
happen when the system is tuned and the confidence in the
measurements and estimation is high.
ƒ As part of this detection, when a realtime measurement change on
the head of a feeder is greater than what is expected according to the
aggregate load profile (considering a predefined treshold), that feeder
should be highlighted as suspicious to have an outage.
ƒ When the system receives a list of customers affected coming from an
external system (OMS/AMI) it should estimate the part of the network
without energy based on the realtime meassured current, the load
profiles and the customers confirmed to be affected.
Usage of Automatic Metering
Infrastructure (AMI) in DMS
Five roles:

• Update of consumer load profiles

• Value of consumer load peak

• Addition measurement in network depth

• Improving fault management

• Load management (selective turn off some consumption – A/C, water

heater, …)
UPDATE OF CONSUMER LOAD
PROFILES:
Each typical consumer type is described by appropriate load
profiles in relative units

I, cosφ -I
- cos φ
1

0 12 24
 UPDATING LOAD
PROFILES I old
I Inew
Iupdated

0 12 24

Iupdated=(1-
=(1-α)I
)Iold+
+αIInew

Update is provided by AMI placed on LV side of

MV/LV transformers.

α is typically 5-15%
 VALUE OF CONSUMER LOAD
PEAK

• Product of consumer load peak and profile gives value

of consumption

• This value defines distribution of load along feeder and it is

used in network state estimation

• Generally distribution of load along feeder can be done by:

ƒ rated power of MV/LV transformer
ƒ peak loads (better; AMI provides this value)
ƒ sold energy (the best; AMI provides this value)
ADDITIONAL MEASUREMENT I TNE NETWORK
DEPTH
If AMI provides measurement on LV side of MV/LV transformer
periodically (every e.g. 1 or 2 hours), this value can be recalculated and
added on MV side where it can be taken in the State Estimation
procedure; this will improve network state estimation quality
M V/LV
M V/LV

SCADA measurement
HV/M V
subst at ion
Virt ual SM I [P,Q])

M V/LV
lat eral M V/LV

SM I [P,Q])
LV busbar
 IMPROVING FAULT MANAGEMENT
Sudden drop of feeder load – may be caused by two ways:

• simply decreasing consumption without fault (significant

consumer is turned off)

• more often it means fault; this means that a part of feeder is

without energy

How can we check which of these two cases has happened?

Let us consider the situation on the following slide:

LOAD MANAGEMENT
Reduction of peak load practically without consumer disturbance

•Load management function gives schedule and number of consumers which should be turned off

•AMI can be infrastructure for accomplishment of load management

 The Power of Integration
Integrated
The Telvent Smart Grid Solution
9Enables optimal asset and load management
decisions in RealTime
9Improves customer service and reliability by
cross-cutting data access, accuracy, and
enhanced network security
9Combines AMI, SCADA, OMS, DMS, and
enterprise information in a seamless and secure
way to provide operations personnel and
executives with a more comprehensive view of
the network
Telvent Smart Grid Solutions Architecture
Decision Support
Enterprise
Executive
Analysis Dashboard

Data
Network ArcFM Warehouse
CIS ERP EAM
Planning GIS

Enterprise Integration Bus

Responder OSISoft OASyS Titanium

DMS FMS SSA
OMS Pi SCADA AMI Distributed
Digital IP Communications
Network

PUB/SUB - RealTime Integration Bus

Sub
Meters Feeder Devices
Mission Critical Devices
Integration between DMS software and GIS Miner&Miner
DMS software ArcFM
GIS software
Network Symbol DNO Model
Builder Editor Editor Manager
DMI-MS DMI-MS DMI-MS

M&M Network Adapter

CORBA GIS Web HTTP
GIS Adapter
Service M&M ArcFM
Model Permisions
Server SQLite GIS Adapter
ESRI ArcGIS
Client

MS Model
SQLite

DMI-MS ArcSDE
Model Transporter
Archiver & DynConf Maker

DMI Bi
DMI-Bin

DMS
Archive To RT
ORACLE DynD RTM DAConf
SQLite Binary XML System

Data for RT System

 Integration between DMS software and
OASys SCADA, Miner&Miner ArcFM and Responder
S t
System S t
System
DMS APP DMD Actualizer DMC
Monitor Manager
DMI DARB

CORBA ORB

ARM DA A&E User

DMS APP FH TMS Replicator
Server Server Server Server

DMS
Results RTM PSConf Local pts. DAConf Security
Binary XML SQLite XML SQLite
SQLite

RF ad. DARB
Responder DMS
Local pts. OASDMS
Web Persistent
Archiver Proxy
Service Store

DMS Network
Responder
Archive Adapter OASyS
M&M
ORACLE M&M
ENEL – Power Industry of Italy
™ Completed pilot project
Milano
™ 7 years cooperation
™ 50 mil. consumers

Installation of DMS
Software in all 28
control centres in
ITALY

Installations and Maintenance

supported by Telvent DMS
 ENEL – Case Study Integration
Distribution Management – Import process

STM CLIENT 1 STM CLIENT 2 DMS CLIENTS

CUSTOMER
STM SYSTEM
Topological Electrical CONSUMPTION
data AUI DATA BASE
data DATA
importing DMS SYSTEM
importing
DMS GME
IMPORTER data
APPLICATION TO Customer data importing
STM SERVER DMS SERVER CREATE LOAD MV Customer data
CURVES LV Customer data
GIS
IMPORTER BACKGROUND
IMPORTER
AUI SIGRAF
DB SIGRAF DATA
DB
BACKGROUND MAPS Topographical data importing
Background data importing
 ENEL – Case Study Integration

Distribution Management – Operation process

STM CLIENT DMS CLIENTS

Dynamic data

DMS function results

DMS
STM SERVER
SERVER Dynamic data exchange

DMS results data exporting

 Conclusions
ƒ DMS and Smart Grid integrations are necessary for:
¾ Estimation and calculation of C/B from investments
into the Smart Grids
¾ Network design with settings of Smart Grid
facilities (equipment number and location)
¾ Settings and coordination of Smart Grid
facilities (how to set them in order to achieve the
best and expected effect)
¾ Redesign of distribution network with Smart Grid
facilities (change of topology, relay protection etc)
ƒ DMS is a decision making online tool on top of
Smart Grid.