Next Generation SCADA

Next Generation SCADA for the Energy Transition time

Whether you are a vertically integrated electric power utility, a transmission grid operator, or a distribution grid operator, you are facing new challenges in your daily grid management tasks.

The energy transition is making the old paradigm fading away; lots of generations on the distribution side, demand following generation, intermittent of new energy resources, and lately, introduction of energy storage at a large scale, deployed utilities themselves or by consumers.

All these changes, happening at a fast pace, bring the issue of grid management up in the ranking of challenges utilities need to cope with to keep up with the energy transition requirements.

A next generation SCADA solution for electric power utilities, shall make such a transition smoother, engaging operators in issues matters the most.

Artificial intelligence should be engaged from SCADA level in grid management. Making most of the routine actions, reliably doable by system, instead of operators, bringing new level of data visualization and presentation, and making system data engineering more accurate, much faster and less time consuming,  specially in distribution grids with large number of substitutions, and recently huge number of DERs.

In summary new challenges for smart grid, grid edge integrated next generation SCADA in utility indsutry are:

1- Dealing with huge number of conventional and smart grid devices, from generation to consumption sides of the business

2- Dealing with a grid of grid, a system of systems, and a solution of integrated solutions

3- Dealing with more and more complicated security requirements

4- Dealing with several interfaces and more and more necessary integration across voltage levels in the entire grids, from EHV down to LV

5- Dealing with intermittent nature of new components of the grid.

6- Assisting handling new non-wire solutions