POWERMANAGER

Plant Dispatch, Communication and Control System

PowerManager is a real-time command, control and communication system between the generation plants and central operations center. It manages all the plant-related outage events and activities, dispatch instructions, event logs, capabilities and reporting into one solution.

Benefits

• Consolidates outage, log, plant status and dispatch instruction events into a single plant management process.
• Proven, secure, enterprise-level system that can handle up to several hundred users.
• Centralized, web-based system allows users distributed over wide geographic locations to utilize one system for all their requirements, from data collection to analysis, and reporting.
• Supports the large quantity of data that flows through numerous processes during the short-term planning phase and real-time operations.
• Integrates the entire outage management process between the central office and the various ISO systems.
• Accommodates flexible processes by allowing users to define their own plant event parameters and process rules.
• Offers a flexible, customizable, configurable system that will fit into current processes and not the other way around.
• Consolidated plant status reporting and provides management a snapshot of plant information during any given time period.
• Only solution on the market which integrates all key processes between plants and commercial operations.  

Functionality

• Outage Management: Ability to request outage events, create real-time/future plant outage events, forecast limits and submission of outage information to various ISOs.
• Dispatch Instruction: Communication of dispatch instruction between plants and dispatchers; Forecast real-time instructions using compliance or economic base points; Indicator showing financial return on suggested instructions; Notification of performance deviation from the suggested instruction; Consolidated view of plant's real-time operating conditions.
• Log Book Management: Administration of operational logs (Dispatcher/Supervisor/Shift Logs); Logging of phone call conversations.
• Unit Capabilities: Allows plant operators to review capabilities and request modifications with one source application; Validation of capabilities against operating conditions of the plant.
• Plant Startup: Forecasts start-up schedules for day-ahead bidding; Modifies start-up schedules in the event of change in operating conditions.
• Reporting: Generates various fixed daily plant reports plus ad-hoc reporting capability.