Generation companies doing business in today’s competitive markets need advanced applications to monitor and optimize their assets while respecting all the relevant operational and environmental constraints.
Network Manager Generation Management System (GMS) provides a rich set of advanced applications for generation operations, all field-proven under a wide variety of market rules and operating conditions.
Network Manager includes functionality for different types of generation resources, including Combined Cycle Plants, plus support for renewable generation assets such as Wind Farms and Solar Plants.
Network Manager performs Automatic Generation Control in full compliance with the latest reliability standards from NERC and UCTE. The Utility Data Warehouse or the PI Historian are used to store the required historical data.
The Network Manager GMS supports Genco operations across multiple control areas, in multiple electricity markets, and in different time zones.
The Network Manager SCADA/GMS provides the following major benefits:
- Immediate overview of the power generation, interchanges and reserves
- Optimal automatic generation control across multiple areas
- Full compliance with reliability standards from NERC and UCTE
- Maintaining reserves and committed transactions
- Calculation of fuel consumption, production costs and emissions
- Forecasting of loads and load patterns for multiple areas and sub-areas
- Generation scheduling based on load forecast and trading schedules
- Automated interfaces with OASIS and electronic tagging