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RO - Resource Optimization
the tool for long- and medium term planning
ROM - Resource Opportunity Management
the tool for managing the physical risk
HTC - Hydro Thermal Coordination
the tool for short term scheduling
STWPF – Short Term Wind Power Forecast
STLF – Short Term Load Forecast
Different input parameters (variant sets) or even different Expansion Planning is supported by use of RO studying
data models are supported by use of complete separate different expansion (and shutdown) scenarios under the
copies of the data base (cases). One variant may repre- effects of economical growth, specific development pro-
sent either one specific data set (one case) or a bundle of jects and the development of the fuel, emission rights and
data sets (scenarios), where one or more parameters are energy markets.
varied to perform volatility analysis, Monte Carlo Simula-
As a result the user obtains the lack of supply and/or the
tion or Stochastic Optimization.
traded volumes on the load areas together with the week-
The user can generate a new variant by copying an exist- ly, monthly and yearly costs to run the system. By com-
ing one or by loading it from a file that was previously parison of the different expansion scenarios the planner
exported from database. Such operations are easily ac- finds the optimal configuration of the new plants, the ex-
complished with a few mouse clicks. Variants may be pansion schedule and the sites where to put them.
visible for all users or specific for the user who created it.
Planning horizons of up to 30 years into the future allow
Calculations may be started for a list of variants. jROS analyzing these scenarios in jROS. The built-in model
creates then a queue performing the calculations sequen- editor enables the user to easily add new plants or to
tially or in parallel depending on the available system modify existing ones. Assigning the plants to a load area
environment (CPUs and solver licenses). and defining the maximum power exchange between the
load areas allow considering the transmission grid (and its
expansion) in a simplified form. Optionally cogeneration
Workspaces may be studied, assigning the plants to a supply zone for
heat or desalinated water and modeling the limitations
due to pipelines and pumping stations by a limitation of
Several variants can be combined to a workspace. Limit- transfer between the zones.
ing the user permission on those workspaces allows for The plant itself may be modeled in full details or with a
separating the system completely, e.g. for serving differ- simple data model for rough decisions, which are refined
ent departments or even companies by one system. later-on to plan the exact configuration. All kind of plants
Since the concept of Workspaces is not available in are available for expansion planning, i.e. simple cycle
SCADA-systems, they are considered separate clients, thermal plants, combined cycle thermal plants, thermal
assigned to a dedicated Workspace. Within this Work- cogeneration plants, run-of-river plants and pumped stor-
space (like in any Workspace) there is only one Variant age plants.
that contains the process related data, commonly named Import and export functions (from and to Excel) for de-
"Online Variant”. This is the only variant that is connected mand and price data allow setting up scenarios very
to SCADA in the jROS-system. quickly. A simplified optimization algorithm based on
Each Workspace contains an Archive (common for all weekly load duration curves allows solving even big sce-
applications). Each variant of each application (within one narios in a short time.
workspace) has access to the data of this Archive.
Maintenance Scheduling
Audit Trail
Maintenance Scheduling is fully integrated into the tool
All manual changes are logged automatically and are RO. It uses the same data model as Resource Optimiza-
visible in the Variant Logs display. All changes are stored tion and is therefore able to consider the entire planning
for each variant separately. Following information is in- process of medium term planning.
cluded in Variant Logs display: It is optimizing the maintenance periods of thermal or
Date and time of the change hydro units within a certain predefined time period under
Type and name of the object the consideration of all hydro and thermal restrictions and
Which user made the change maximization of profit / minimization of costs.
Old value / new value (for short-term applications Usually, the time horizon of Maintenance Scheduling is
only) one to several years split into daily or weekly intervals
Activation of an application-engine because of the consistency with the maintenance time
Activation of an interface frame.
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Fuel procurement and fuel
stock-keeping need to
consider all possible sce-
narios of future market
price development.
Trade Optimizing Scheduling is one way of using HTC Generator Scheduling determines the optimum generation
determining key figures for the short-term bilateral trading schedules for all available units of the system. It combines
decisions and for the bidding on the spot markets. the activities of finding the optimum unit commitment,
hydro scheduling and hydro thermal coordination with the
The results of this function are the volumes to be bid on
final load dispatch considering of all relevant technical
the spot markets or the marginal costs of production. Free
and system constraints.
capacities and profiles of marginal prices may be obtained
by a stepwise variation of demand, which is especially The results are commitment and generation schedules,
suited for the intraday business. Detailed results as for cogeneration production, contribution to regulation ser-
Generation Scheduler are available for deeper analysis. vices, and reserves. From that the operating costs, fuel
consumptions, water discharges, reservoir levels and
Trade Optimizing Scheduling supports this task by sched-
flows through channels are derived according to the exact
uling the generation units for the next few days up to one
non-linear dependencies and verified against the limits.
month divided in hourly time grid. A detailed data model
considers non-linear efficiencies, start-up costs minimum Generator Scheduling supports this task by scheduling
run and stop times, etc., together with the limitations from the generation units for the next few days up to two weeks
fuel supply and the hydrological constraints. The deci- divided in hourly, half-hourly or quarter-hourly time grid.
sions from Resource Optimization are considered wher- The regulation and reserve requirements are considered
ever they are relevant. This is done by using their results in full details. Optionally, the requirements from cogenera-
as target values at the end of the short-term planning tion production and their supply zones, storage capacities
horizon e.g. for reservoir levels and accumulated fuel and limited transport capabilities are included in the
consumption. The regulation and reserve requirements as scheduling process.
primary and secondary regulation, spinning reserve, are
Generator Scheduling employs the same algorithm and
considered as they influence the trading opportunities.
data model as the Trade Optimizing Scheduler. The objec-
tive function is minimization of production costs under
given electrical demands. The results are presented in
analyst displays in full details and may be summarized in
user-defined summary displays in tabular or graphical
form.
Wind generation is hard to
predict and implies volatile
market prices on the ener-
gy exchanges.
The Short Term Wind Power Forecast (STWPF) is a pre- The Short Term Load Forecast (STLF) calculates the
diction tool for transmission and generation companies to power system load for the future hours and days. This
forecast the power produced by wind farms. STWPF is power system load is the quantity for planning sufficient
based on “Sipreólico”, a Matlab based kernel from Red generation, spinning reserve and standby reserve. Load is
Electrica de España. This short-term wind power predic- the sum of all individual demands. Each demand or usage
tion tool uses statistical and combined forecasting meth- pattern is random from the point of view of the computer
ods. STWPF requires historical weather data, forecasted system. Due to the unpredictability and the diversity of the
weather data, real time power and weather measurements individual demands, load cannot be calculated exactly by
so it can produce a forecast. STWPF can combine its own extrapolating the estimated individual demand usage
forecast with external ones (e.g. provided from agents on patterns. But the totality of the individual loads results in a
the market). distinct consumption pattern which is predicted with meth-
ods of different complexity:
The STWPF Inputs are:
Manually created load values
Meteorological forecasts: STWPF receives files
with wind forecasts (wind speeds and wind direc- Daytype specific consumption profiles
tions) in a distributed set of geographical coordi-
Search for historic weather patterns.
nates (longitude, latitude and altitude) and close
to the location of the wind farms. Correlating load values with weather values.
Real time measurements (RTM): these values
are received every 15/20/30 or 60 minutes (de-
pending on the time grid) and give the power References
production of each wind farm. These data are
coming from a SCADA system.
A team of experts takes care of Spectrum PowerTM jROS
Total wind power estimations: these data are re- development, project execution, customer service and
ceived every hour and give an estimation of the maintenance for the last 20 years.
last 24 hours of total wind power produced by the TM
whole system. Spectrum Power jROS is in operation at more than 50
sites, including, but not limited to, GdF-Suez (Belgium),
Total external wind power forecasts (optional): Verbund (Austria), ADWEC (Abu Dhabi), ENEL (Italy),
these files are received every hour and give a E.ON (Germany), DB (Germany), PLN (Indonesia).
forecast of the total wind power produced by the
system. These files can come from en external
forecasing tool or from weather forecast agents
on the market.
Siemens AG
Infrastructure & Cities Sector
Smart Grid Division
Humboldtstr. 59
90459 Nuremberg, Germany
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