SWE Netz GmbH is a company of the Stadtwerke Erfurt Group. It looks back on over 150 years of history in the gas and electricity supply of the city of Erfurt and is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and expansion of various networks and facilities required for the energy supply. It operates as a network operator within the meaning of paragraph 3, number 4 of the Energy Industry Act (EnWG).
Spectrum Power 5 offers SWE Netz GmbH the opportunity to master the growing technical and market-driven challenges with maximum agility and sustainability and to open up new business areas.

Solution brief:

• Spectrum Power 5 Version 5.80 
• Start of operation: 12/2022 
• Fully virtualized, redundant and locally distributed multi-computer system 
• Main and emergency control room, test system, study mode 
• Divisional operation for electricity, gas, district heating and EMS 
• 15 operator stations 
• Communication protocols IEC104, TASE2, OPC DA, SNMP 
• Service contract for control system, control system network, IT security/patch management 
• 8 substations 
• approx. 1,100 local medium-voltage substations 
• approx. 100,000 data points in total 
• approx. 70,000 telereported data points 
• Approx. 2,000 system images (electricity, gas, district heating and EMS)

Features: 

• SCADA basic functions 
• Topology in the electrical grid 
• Collective representations 
• Representation of higher-level topological states 
• Temporary mesh 
• Switching sequence management/switching programs 
• Timetable management 
• Cascade / load shutdown management according to the German Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industries (BDEW cascade)
• State estimation / load flow calculation 
• Fault localization (earth fault and short circuit search) 
• GIS – cable data import 
• Redispatch 2.0 Advanced 
• Connection to PSS®SINCAL