The Challenge
Our client, a national ASX Listed Energy Provider retained Devbase for their domain experience in Electricity Transmission Operation Technologies to establish the Energy Management System requirements for a 300-500kV Network . These requirements would underpin the procurement process for an Advanced Energy Management System product to be configured for both SCADA, Simulation and Real time Modelling of the Transmission network
The Solution
Devbase stood up a team of specialists in disciplines of OT Project Management, Network Control Room Operation, Control Room Management, Power System Planning, Power System Protection and Control, Power System Harmonics, Power System Operations. The team would establish and execute a scope which saw the production of a suite of requirements documentation, which would underpin a functional specification used in procurement.
Our team of Transmission Network Operations experts reviewed the Clients existing documentation which was predominantly developed for Operation of Hydrocarbons Infrastructure. Where possible our team uplifted and adapted this material and subsequently developed out a host of functional requirements and aligned these to the Client’s own technical standards:
System Planning Document Package
- Power system off-line network analysis IT/OT requirements
- Power system off-line network analysis Requirements
- Network model for EMS requirements
- Volt/Var Management
- WAMPAC & Power Quality requirements
Network Operations Document Package
- Operations Manual Template
- OT Performance Criteria for power system operations
- Reporting Requirements for power system operations
- Power System Operations Nomenclature – Requirements
- Training Needs Analysis for Operations Centre and OT
- Power system operational Limit & Ratings – Requirements
- Planned Outage Management requirements
- HV isolation and Access Procedure requirements
Operational Technology Document Package
- EMS-IT Integration
- SCADA signals for Power System operations – Requirements
- HMI Display Requirements
- Operations Centre Alarm Requirements
- EMS External Connectivity requirements
- Operations Design Brief for Network Design and Construction
- Power System network model definition
- SCADA Test Lab requirements
EMS Tender Requirements Documents
- High level requirements for EMS/SCADA
- High level requirements for EMS - Historian architecture
- High level requirements EMS - Corporate application interface requirements
- EMS Specification for tender readiness (Support)
- EMS/OT procurement strategy (Support)
EMS Tender Technical Assurance
Our Principal Consultant was engaged by the Client’s owner team on the governance board for the project to provide technical assurance and support to the client IT and Procurement departments throughout the Tender process. This engagement led to a productive procurement process whereby technical challenges posed by the Vendors were responded to efficiently and clear articulation of risks were provided to the Client’s management team
Our Impact
Our client was equipped with materials which were well received by Vendors in the initial Expression of Interest and subsequent Commercial Tendering processes. Devbase were further sought to form membership of the Client’s tender evaluation team and subsequent implementation acknowledging our team experience in numerous EMS implementation projects across a number of utilities.
