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News and Information for Users of Network Manager Worldwide Volume 4, number 2, 2005
ABB Powers NY ISO ABB wins Tunisias Gas
www.abb.com/networkmanagement
Electricity Market Dispatching Network
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
recently opened its new electricity market using an IT system Control worth over $6
provided by ABB. The new market, known as SMD2,
was designed to implement the features of the FERC
million
Standard Market Design. The IT infrastructure utilizes
solutions from ABBs Network Manager and Market Manager ABB has won a $6 million order from Société Tunisienne de
product lines. lElectricité et du Gaz (STEG) for the supply of the network
management SCADA system. The project includes a national
In the past, the NYISO Market Systems operated with control center to be built on a green field lot in Tunis, the
different solution engines creating potential inefficiencies. capital, and six regional control centers spread out all over the
The new market systems are based on a single advanced ABB country. All control centers will be equipped with ABBs
design that will improve price convergence and enhance network manager SCADA and RTU 560s.
market stability. In addition to the market systems, the new
ABB Network Manager SCADA/EMS system will provide
the NYISO electricity grid operators with greatly enhanced
control of the States power grid.
Our long-standing dispatching solutions served their
purpose; they allowed us to make the transition from the old
world of vertically integrated utilities to the era of competitive
energy markets, said William J. Museler, NYISO President
and CEO. Todays markets, however, are more complicated
than ever and require more sophisticated hardware and
(From left to right: Standing: Maroun Zakhour, Habib Messai, Norbert
software. SMD2 solves todays issues and those we may Heuck. Sitting: Georg Praehauser, Ditmar Heinz, Othman Ben Arfa)
face in the future.
In a span of only two years, ABB deployed the systems to The contract was signed by STEG CEO, Mr. Othman Ben
include hardware redundancy at both the primary and Arfa, and ABBs Ditmar Heinz and Georg Praehauser. The
emergency sites. The new systems have been in stable signature of the contract took place on Jan 31st at STEGs
operation since the switchover, and so far everyone is very headquarters.
pleased with their performance. It is expected by many that
the increased efficiencies will ultimately result in millions of Mr. Ben Arfa congratulated ABB for winning this first gas
dollars of savings to New York power consumers. SCADA system to be installed in the territory and expressed
his confidence in ABB to successfully complete this strategic
project in two years.The new SCADA system will allow STEG
to increase the efficiency of its gas transmission network and
to manage its ties to Libya and Algeria.
Network Manager News, Page 2 2nd Quarter 2005
New GIS/Distribution Management System for San
Antonio, Texas utility
ABB, the leading power and automation group, and ESRI, trends and patterns of outages in real time. Operators can
the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) then dispatch a single crew to deal with a specific
software, have been selected to implement a new outage problem rather than sending multiple crews to a general
management system (OMS) and GIS for San Antonio area to locate and fix a given fault.
based City Public Service (CPS).
That should mean shorter outages, fewer hours spent in
ABB, the prime contractor, and ESRI are joined on the the field, and more power restoring efficiency, notes
project by Miner & Miner (design software) and Rolta CPS James. Customer service representatives will also
International (data conversion services). The project will have access to more
replace CPS legacy systems with state-of-the-art tools information, allowing
that are also integrated with customer service and crew them to provide more
management processes. specific and timely
information to
The outage management capabilities along with available customers.
distribution management applications and a tight
integration with GIS contributed to our decision to go with Initial stages of the
ABB and ESRI, says Fred James, Vice President of proposed systems are
Operations at CPS. We believe the open, standards-based scheduled to go online
GIS technology will give us a platform to build from. early in 2006. Full
Also, the commitment from ABBs management team was system implementation
very important, in particular ABBs and ESRIs ability to is expected early in 2007. Were very excited to be
integrate the new capabilities with our existing systems working with ESRI on this project, says Karl Elfstadius,
including SAP. Group Vice President and head of ABBs Network
Management business unit. This marks the beginning of
ABBs outage management system will allow CPS to what we anticipate will be a highly productive
spatially locate outages and outage sources and identify partnership.
ABB provides educational seminar on electricity
deregulation
The seminar was conducted by ABBs Peter Maltbaek at
ABB recently hosted a full-day training seminar on the Casablanca offices of O.N.E., and was attended by more
deregulation and competitiveness of the energy industry than 30 people. An introduction to the history of utility
for the Moroccan Energy Ministry and O.N.E., the deregulation in different parts of the world and factors
Moroccan Electric Utility Company. Morocco, and the (including economic and legal) in driving competitive
three neighboring countries of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, electricity markets were discussed. A comprehensive
are all transitioning from a vertically-integrated monopoly presentation of applied technologies required by different
supply of electric power to a deregulated, competitive market models was followed by a discussion of ABBs
environment along the lines of the reforms adopted by implementation experience as the technology provider to
many European countries. This coincides with the the worlds largest deregulated entities. These include the
development of an expanded, fully synchronous AC California and New York ISOs, KPX in Korea, the
intertie with Spain, which will connect these North African Philippines WESM, the Ontario IMO, and the first such
countries to the European Grid and the European entity in China at ECPG in Shanghai.
electricity markets. It is also expected that an open and
functional energy market will attract foreign investment in The presentations were very well received, and it is expected
independent power plants to supply the rapidly expanding that ABB will be asked to repeat the session in Tunisia and
economies of these countries. Libya in the coming months.
Network Manager News, Page 3 2nd Quarter 2005
Exelon Power Team GMS Upcoming Events:
NM2004 Upgrade... On Ö Network Manager Users Group
Meeting
schedule Alberta, Canada
On March 24, 2005, Exelon Power Team and ABB June 5-8, 2005
completed the Factory Acceptance Test of the Network Contact: allen.skopp@us.abb.com
Manager 2004 upgrade system with no Software Problem
Reports (SPRs). This four-month effort included the Ö Network Manager DMS Users
migration of the existing RANGER ERCOT QSE system Group Meeting
(version 10.4), to the Network Manager 2004 Baseline Orlando, Florida
system, with the addition of the PGM (West) generation June 26-29
controls interfaces for the additional plants formerly in the Contact: trish.palys@us.abb.com
ComEd area. Exelon is pleased with the rapid problem
free acceptance test and is anticipating a smooth field
installation and cut over by May 15, 2005. WESM MMS Commission-
Exelon Power Team will also be adding the Resource ing Ongoing in the
Scheduling Sub-system which will includes a Marginal
Cost Calculation (MCC) function. Phillippines
The Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) Market
Exelon Power Team Management System (MMS) from ABB arrived at the WESM
serves as the power premises in Pasig and commissioning was completed on
marketing division December 20. THe system was installed at a primary site in
Manila and also at a backup site. Site Acceptance Tests (SATs)
for the Exelon Corporation. Exelon Power Team is an
are currently underway and nearing completion.
ERCOT QSE, and as of May 2002, responsible for
operating and managing a NERC control area in the SERC Site acceptance Tests are intended to ensure that the system
market. In order to do this, Power Team contracted with conforms to the Philippine WESM rules and that it matches the
ABB Inc. for the purchase of a Network Manager SCADA/ contracted specifications. We do not anticipate any major
GMS. The new system will include all functionality and problems during the SATs, as much of it is a repeat of the testing
interfaces to meet the requirements for base power that was conducted during the Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs)
schedules, ancillary services and QSE calculations such as prior to the MMS being shipped here. The critical area is in the
SCE and ramp rate along with other obligation for a QSE actual integration with other existing systems said Mario
Pangilinan, the WESM MMS Team Leader. Our team is
as defined in the ERCOT protocols. The Network Manager
currently working with TRANSCO to ensure that this integration
system will include SCADA, AGC, Reserve Monitoring, is accomplished and we are looking forward to a successful
Economic Dispatch, interface with plant RTUs, interface testing process. We will be working through the Christmas
with nMarket and nMarket database (including XML holidays to ensure that there will not be any delays, he added.
instruction from ERCOT) and an interface with a database
containing plant design limits. It is important that we do a thorough job to ensure that the
MMS is complete and functions as expected as it is the heart of
The project implementation was performed under a very our Market., said Lasse Holopainen, President of the Philippine
short schedule. Contract signing was in early April 2002 Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC). The SATs are the last
technical milestone prior to WESM trial operations.
with system delivery in mid-May of that same year.
The Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC),
constituted in November 2003, is a non-stock, non-profit private-
public partnership tasked to govern the Philippine Wholesale
Comments or suggestions? Electricity Spot Market (WESM).
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