Advanced Distribution Planning & Asset Management

Harnessing operational data for actionable performance information

A major challenge in “consumer to grid” distribution operations is how to process vast amounts of data quickly to assess grid conditions at any given moment. KEMA is helping utility managers address the complex technical, capital, and workforce challenges in planning, designing, maintaining and operating T&D assets.

 

KEMA is actively engaged in helping utilities enhance distribution system performance with an eye on the future. Power system managers are faced with ever increasing loads, aging infrastructure, and system planning needs with constant pressure on complying with stringent reliability standards and tight capital improvement budgets. Adding to these concerns is the need to address interconnection and monitoring issues with a growing array of diverse distributed and renewable generation.

 

Enhancing distribution planning and operations, realizing utility benefits

Building from our knowledge, experience and analytic resources in power system planning and management, KEMA has developed a management model for distribution planning and operations that consolidates data into a concise dashboard of key performance metrics.

 

Designed for utility executives, planners and operators, our model provides a quick view of system performance – at any moment in time, past or present – and the ability to drill down into more detailed analysis. The dashboard integrates utility data from existing software platforms for distribution planning and operations and displays Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in an intuitive, at-a-glance format—furthering utility managers’ ability to evaluate and enhance the adequacy, security and reliability of their power systems.

 

Benefits for the utility include:

• optimized power system due to better understanding of loading levels

• reliability improvement due to more informedutilization of stressed assets

• effective planning and operation from near real-time system flows and load information

• support for rate case filings by showing assets are being fully utilized.