PowerManager: Comprehensive Outage Management Software
PowerManager allows companies to manage their entire real-time (forced), planned, and maintenance outage process. Automated notification and workflow between plants, ISO and dispatch/Central desk automates, manages, and streamlines all the workflow, tasks, and notifications to ensure efficiency and compliance . Our system integrates with every ISO/RTO in the US and Canada and one system can also be used for multiple ISO/RTO.
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Outage Management System (OMS): PowerManager
PowerManager reduces manual work by 60% by automating work flows, outages, limits,logs, and parameters. The system automates limit and ISO-required parameter calculation and submissions and also integrates with internal systems such as bid/offer systems and provides them with the most updated limits base on outages.
PowerManager combines all plant outage events, dispatch instructions, event logs, unit capabilities, limits/ambient conditions, and reporting into one unified, simplified solution.
PowerManager improves outage response and communication and transparency between groups. The results in improved outage response, reduction in errors, and improved compliance .
PowerManager's Role in GADS Outage Reporting
GADS Outage reporting is a critical aspect of outage management. According to NERC’s Generating Availability Data System (GADS), power generation companies must report outage data for statistical analysis and reliability assessment.
Power Manager assists your GADS Outage Process by streamlining GADS reporting with the ability to create preliminary GADS events from Real-time events submitted to the ISO.
The Power of Now: Real-Time Outage Management
Effective Real-Time Outage Management is pivotal to minimizing the impact of an outage. With PowerManager, the system automatically recognizes when an outage or AVR/PSS event is occurring through PI/SCADA integration and automatically creates an accurate ticket with all the of the key ISO information for operators to review and submit with only one click. The system can also be configured to auto-submit tickets without user approval.
After tickets are created, related workflows are kicked off to ensure operators perform and log any manual processes such as calling the ISO. Any automated tasks are also performed as part of the workflow.
PowerManager also continually calculates updated current limits and forecasts future limits based on outages as well as ambients conditions.
Benefits of Outage Management Software
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits of Outage Management Software
- Outage Management: PowerManager's Outage Management System allows you to request and create real-time/future plant outage events, forecast limits, and submit outage information to various ISOs, thereby maximizing operational efficiency.
- Dispatch Instruction: Ensure seamless communication of dispatch instruction between plants and dispatchers. PowerManager ensures seamless communication of dispatch instruction between plants and dispatchers. It also forecasts real-time instructions using compliance or economic base points, shows the financial return on suggested instructions, and notifies of performance deviation from the suggested instruction.
- Log Book Management: Efficiently administer operational logs (Dispatcher/Supervisor/Shift Logs) and log phone call conversations.
- Unit Capabilities: PowerManager empowers plant operators to review capabilities and request modifications with one source application. It also validates capabilities against the operating conditions of the plant.
- Plant Startup: Forecasts start-up schedules for day-ahead bidding and modify start-up schedules in the event of change in operating conditions.
- Reporting: PowerManager generates various fixed daily plant reports and provides ad-hoc reporting capabilities.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION ABOUT OUTAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (OMS)
An OMS identifies and isolates outages using a predictive algorithm, then directs repair crews to the locations, and restores power in an efficient manner.
Real-time OMS improves power distribution by swiftly identifying and isolating outages, enabling faster power restoration, and reducing the duration of service interruptions.
OMS improves customer service by reducing outage times, providing accurate outage information, and enabling efficient communication about outage status and restoration times.
The data model in OMS represents the utility’s electrical distribution network. It is crucial for accurate outage prediction and management.
The OMS communication system notifies customers about outages, updates them on restoration progress, and communicates estimated restoration times, enhancing customer service during outages.
