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| SCADA can be a very valuable tool for system operations, customer service, engineering, and planning. Many utilities have made the investment and seen great benefits from SCADA. Those utilities have a real-time view of the electric system status and can optimize settings, avoid some equipment or system failures, know of some problems with voltage or other issues before a complaint, better deploy crews to the problem and with the right equipment or know how, reconfigure some of the electric system remotely to fix problems or outages, and have an excellent history database to help plan for future investments. All this can save substantial dollars and improve results for customers. It also helps demonstrate that the utility has realtime knowledge of what is happening on its high voltage electric system, which is increasingly important.
While many utilities are seeing substantial benefits from SCADA, a larger share have not seen SCADA deliver all that they wanted to see. Power System Engineering, Inc. (PSE) believes SCADA can be a key asset for all utilities if there is an extra push to leverage the investment and reinvest in an effective way for solid results. To help our clients “take SCADA to the next level”, PSE is offering a SCADA checkup.
A SCADA checkup will assess your SCADA system platform, architecture, functionality, and suppliers (e.g., SCADA master, sub equipment, communications) by:
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- Providing “best practice” information on what SCADA might do for a utility in your situation.
- Identifying where the potential benefits are from SCADA for your utility.
- Preparing alternatives and recommendations about how the desired benefits from SCADA can be achieved.
- Walking your team through alternatives and prioritize as a joint team exercise.
- Developing an implementation plan to achieve the objectives in an effective manner.
- Providing an executive level explanation of the plan for your senior management and/or board.
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| | PSE is uniquely positioned for this project because we have team members that have worked on SCADA projects for numerous utilities across the country over many years, involving numerous different suppliers of SCADA masters, communications systems, and equipment that supports SCADA for substations and feeders. This modest effort of a “checkup” can be the trigger that makes a major investment like SCADA and key assets such as your electric system and even crews, achieve more. |
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