1. Murat Uludogan Applications Support Manager
Managing the Power Grid Using Maps, Real-time Data
Using ESRI and OSISoft technology and real-time data to visualize and manage the Power Grid
Murat Uludogan Applications Support Manager

2. What value was achieved
Organization of data to the operation staff
Empowered operations staff to control their environment
IT focuses on making data available
Better decisions in less time
#2 empowered operations staff – ensured data is available/organized so users can turn it into information
#4 better decisions – mixed data sources (EIA gas data / EMS / weather) creates insight not previously available

3. Decision Drivers
ESRI and OSIsoft are the “best in class” in their core technologies
Leverage Peak Investment in OSIsoft PI
Staff Knowledge and Comfort
Relationship
Infrastructure
Data driven solution

4. Solution Highlights
Easy display creation and modification with Operations Dashboard
Whiteboard philosophy (can build anything – not limited)
Eye toward secure external tablet and mobile use
Quickly reconfigure based on input from users
6 months from vendor selection of ESRI to available in the control room as a “Pilot” solution

5. Peak Visualization Platform Development
Purpose
Increase Situational Awareness
Geographic Visualization (using Precise GIS mapping)
Real Time Weather and Fire Data
Fast Power System Analysis / Comprehension of System Conditions
Integrated with West-wide System Model – Model-Based Platform
Content Available
Substations
Alarms
Gas Facilities
PI Coresight
Environmental Factors
SOL / IROL Information
Transmission Lines
Phase shifters
After supporting real time applications for 16 years I can say there is a lot more data out there ever before, It comes from more sources than ever before and more hands on it ever before. To able to use this data to increase situational awareness we need to turn the data to actionable information. And this can be automated. One of the more effective way to do this is a visual tool.
We also need to bring Fire and Weather data with their geographic context to the Control Room since this information could be very critical to maintain the reliability on the grid.
Also bring all available important real time data from different systems to One Display.
Weather feeds – Fire (perimeter & point), Earthquake, Wind, Temperature, Precipitation, Weather Advisories Environmental Factors – weather, base-maps PI Coresight – Integration of PI displays / graphs / tables

6. Peak Visualization Platform (PVP)
PVP is the visualization solution we are building to help our Reliability Coordinators manage the Grid more effectively.
Grid Reliability. Increasing the amount and quality of information available while at the same time reducing the amount of time it takes an Reliability Coordinator (Operation Engineer) to comprehend actionable information.
Presenting the information with its geographic context can greatly speed that comprehension.
The information shown on PVP comes from variety of core systems, Energy, Modeling, Outage, and several other systems in the control room. PVP pulls it together so that an operator can have situational awareness and understand where things is going and better support to make good decisions. We are able to show Area details, substations, IROL information, Path, lines and different type of generations, outages.

7. Grid Reliability
Reducing the amount of time it takes an RC to comprehend actionable information.
RC needs more information about fire that threads transmission lines\Sub Stations\Generators.
To get the information, RC calls TOPs to try and determine location and direction of fire growth and what additional facilities are about to be impacted
It takes up to 1 hour for this information to get back to the RC
No current method for analytic tools to geographically map
This is something we do not like to see but unfortunately happens a lot especially during summer seasons.

8. Real-time Fire Visualization
Fire location, size and spatial geometry boundaries updating every 5 minutes from USGS along side of transmission assets

9. Real-time Disaster Report
Weather information
PVP is also brings a lot of weather information to the map. Tornado\Earthquakes\Floods\Hurricanes and other warnings related to weather.
Hurricanes, Lightning Strikes -> Weather.com
All other data comes from -> USGS.COM
Also we can all temperature information and show on the map. Especially important information during hot summers.
On a cloudy day we can expect less solar energy output.

10. PMU LINE FLOW
PMU data. We can create backup displays for EMS in case ICCP is down.

11. Model Preparation & Data Driven Map Creation
Performed every five weeks
Physical network topology: ETS (EMS vendor Tool)
SCADA: In-house databases and scripts
ICCP: In-house databases and scripts
RTCA Contingencies: Home-grown CSV file and scripts
Alarms: EMS vendor UI and scripts
RAS: In-house databases and scripts
Outages: 3rd party proprietary software
Peak RC spends significant resources to maintain models (meta-data)

12. 13,000 Displays!!!
Labor intensive overhead to maintain all these individual displays
Build the default dashboard once. Then configurable on-the-fly by the user.

13. What value was achieved
Habitat EMS runtime databases
Outage Management System
Other
Systems
Weather\Fire
#2 empowered operations staff – ensured data is available/organized so users can turn it into information
#4 better decisions – mixed data sources (EIA gas data / EMS / weather) creates insight not previously available

14. Questions? Murat Uludogan Applications Support Manager