Automation
- Multi-console with multi-screen monitoring
- Graphical monitoring via ETAP one-line diagram
- Visual monitoring via Man-Machine Interface (MMI)
- Alarm warnings with graphical interface
- Alert of equipment out-of-range violations
- Monitoring of electrical & non-electrical parameters
- Pseudo measurements (override measured data)
- OPC interface layer
- User-access levels
- Continuous real-time monitoring
- On-demand data retrieval
- Data reconciliation & consistency check
- Bad data detection & correction
- Alarm management & processing
- Energy cost monitoring & accounting
- Real-time load forecasting & trending
- Automatic steady-state optimization control
- Auto control overload, over/undervoltage, etc.
- Auto control LTCs, circuit breakers, relays, etc.
- Chain of logic controls & action validations
- Generation averaging (load sharing)
- Minimize MW & Mvar losses
- Minimize power factor penalties
- Intelligent inhibitive & permissive controls
- Maximize voltage security index
- Energy cost assessment
- Supervisory & advisory control
- User-friendly logics & macros
- Control system simulator
- Peak shaving
- Optimize spin reserve
- Intelligent generation control
- Fuel cost optimization
- Economic dynamic dispatch
- Eliminate unnecessary load shedding
- Reduction of downtime for critical loads
- Reduction of spinning reserve requirements
- Reliable load preservation system
- Fast response to disturbances
- Operator alerts for marginal operating conditions
- Display required minimum MW & selected loads
- Trigger & time dependent load shedding
- User-definable control logics & macros
- User-definable system triggers
- Operator-friendly interface
- Display operating & recommended spin reserve
- VFD load reduction control
- System islanding logic
- Display monitored data on the one-line diagram
- Predict system response after load shed
- Log & view load shedding actions & recommendations
- Unlimited load shedding schedules
- User-defined load priority & groups
- Option to simulate & test ILS recommendations
- Generation constraints to maintain adequate online reserves
- Transmission line congestion limits to prevent overloads
- Incremental heat rate characteristics for each generation unit
- Detailed nonlinear cost function modeling
- User-friendly switching plan builder
- Point & click selection of switching device from the one-line diagrams
- Graphical display of selected switching devices
- Multi-level switching request approval
- Assignment of user-definable & interlock logic per each switching device
- Checking of selected switching plans against forbidden or potentially hazardous actions
- Unlimited switching plans each with an unlimited number of switching actions
- Switching order reports include switching mode, start / stop time, & nature of work
- Simulate & evaluate switching plans in all states prior to execution