1. A Path breaking Technology for Network Maintenance and Optimization
LATEST TRENDS IN GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRICITY SECTOR
A Path breaking Technology for Network Maintenance and Optimization
Yousef Al-Jaidah
Manager, Electricity Network Planning
KAHRAMAA

2. Agenda Introduction – KAHRAMAA Electricity Network Affairs
Electricity Network Planning
Electricity Sector, Some Challenges
Raising to the Challenges
The Solution
GIS System Evolution
An Integrated Approach
Delivery Channels

3. KAHRAMAA
KAHRAMAA is the sole distributer of Electricity and Water in the State of Qatar.
In the Electricity sector KAHRAMAA operates with 230 Primary High Voltage Substations connected by a total of 1,880 km of Primary Overhead Transmission Lines and 2,530 km of underground HV cable network. The network is coupled with 12,150 Medium voltage substations (11 kV) and more than 11,600 kilometres of underground and overhead cable lines.
KAHRAMAA maintains a water infrastructure consisting of 6789 Km of Water pipeline networks with 28 Storage Reservoirs having total capacity of Million Gallons.

4. Electricity Network Affairs
Mission
Objectives
To provide Safe, Secure, Reliable & Adequate electricity supply to all type of customers in the state of Qatar, in conformance to international and regional standards and in a timely manner with the least possible cost.
1. Customer Satisfaction
Understand and meet customers’ needs and expectations
2. Supply Efficiency
High Quality Power supply
Dispatch IPP through a secure and reliable network
3. Quality
Meet the overall Electricity quality needs through least number of Power Interruptions & Eliminate Outages

5. Electricity Network Planning
Committed to Plan and Design Qatar’s Electrical Network development using efficient technologies, data and materials and strive to satisfy our customers.
Coordinate with other utility agencies to have a harmonious expansion of State’s assets and infrastructure.
Review and update Material Specifications. Ascertain the international standard materials are used in KM’s Network.

6. Electricity Sector, Some Challenges
How to
Improve Power System Reliability
Maintain Power Quality
Optimally Utilize the Power Delivery Assets
Reduce the equipment failures
Reduce the planned / unplanned outages in the system
Increase the awareness for energy Conservation - Tarsheed
Integrate Diesel Generator based micro grids into main network

7. Electricity Sector, Some Challenges
Fishbone Diagram is helpful in identifying potential factors causing an overall effect
Equipment Failure
Reduces System Reliability
Reduces Power Quality
Under utilization of Assets
Increases Network Cost
Un utilized Installed Capacity
Over utilization of Assets
Increase in Equipment Failures
Decrease in Power Quality
Outages
Reduces System Reliability
Reduction in utility income

8. Raising to the Challenge
Bigger challenges provide bigger opportunities
Meeting these challenges gives raise to better rewards
Rewards are in terms to Reliability, Quality, efficiency and economic benefits to consumers and to the utility
Qatar’s Electrical Network has
Primary Substations – 230
Secondary Substations – 12,159
Consumers – 295,000
and increasing

9. The Solution - An Enterprise GIS System
A GIS System that can handle
Comprehensive and accurate inventory of Electrical
Assets
Interconnectivity between the assets with Under
ground and Overhead lines
A Comprehensive Service Information that is integrated
to the GIS System and that can be retrieved from within
the GIS software
Traceable network from the Electrical feeder to the
connected customers along with all the electrical assets
in between
A system that can be integrated with any database with
ease.

10. The Solution - An Enterprise GIS System
An Electrical aware GIS system can
Make it easy to locate the Electrical Assets
Help create a comprehensive maintenance schedule for a given area / zone
Identify the customers effected for switching programs
Effectively managing high priority areas while preventive maintenance scheduling
Identifying the electrical feeders in an outage
Integrating customer messaging system for any electrical activity
Electricity Network
Cables
OHL
Transformer
Switch
Bus Bar
Circuit Breaker
Land Base
Topography
Parcels
GIS Databases

11. Enterprise GIS System in KAHRAMAA
KAHRAMAA has awarded a contract to implement an Enterprise GIS solution using ArcFM technology
ArcFM™ is a powerful extension of ESRI's ArcGIS® platform that provides a complete, enterprise utility solution specially for energy sector.
The ArcFM Solution allows utility businesses to make use of a single integrated environment to manage and map multiple assets, leveraging all the power of ArcGIS’s object-oriented system.

12. GIS System Evolution GIS GIS Mapping Decentralized databases
Some data still in paper
No Workflow automation
Moderate Quality Data
Enterprise GIS
Centralized & Comprehensive Database
Some workflow automation
High Quality Data
Productivity Improvements
Integrated Enterprise GIS
Engineering Design using GIS
Integrating Scada System with GIS
Integrating Load flow system with GIS
Interface with other enterprise systems
Functionalities
Procedures
Infrastructure
Applications
Databases
Users
Enterprise
GIS

13. Future of GIS System in KAHRAMAA Finance and Accounting
Network Planning
SCADA Systems
Asset Management
Outage Management
Customer Information
Integrated
Enterprise
GIS
Road Opening
and Building Permits
Finance and Accounting
Environmental
Impact Assessment
Engineering Design
Construction

14. GIS System Delivery Channels
Centralized GIS Database
Client / Server (Desktop)
Web Enabled (Internet)
Embedded (Integrated in other applications)
Mobile (Smart Phones, Tablet PCs)

15. Thank you For any further queries please contact Electricity GIS
Electricity Network Planning
Phone –