Eichsfelder Energie- und Wasserversorgungs GmbH (EEW for short) supplies around 43 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year to some 7,000 households and businesses throughout the Eichsfeld region. In addition, EEW supplies the Eichsfeld with regional water of excellent quality including the necessary drinking water treatment. EEW is the operating service provider for the drinking water and wastewater association Obere Hahle as well as for the municipality of Gleichen.

Solution overview: 

• Spectrum Power™ 5 Version 5.80
• New project in implementation: 02.2023
• System hosting in the AWS Frankfurt data center in a Virtual Private Siemens Cloud
• Sector operation for electricity, water, and district heating
• Redundant, geographically separated multi-computer system
• System access via AWS Workspaces for maintenance and office/service workstations with two-factor authentication
• Hosting service contract for functional provision, IT security, update, and patch management service
• Remote control protocol IEC 60870-5-104
• Data points in the system: approx. 15,000
• Remotely reported: approx. 12,000
• Commands: approx. 200
• Electricity substations: approx. 400
• Water stations: approx. 100

SCADA functions: 

• Topology in the electrical network and for pipeline-bound media
• Temporary network elements
• Switch sequence management
• Switching programs
• Automatic reporting functions
• Remote alerting via e-mail and/or phone

Higher level functions: 

• Leakage monitoring in the pipeline network

Optional in planning:

• SIEM (Security Information and Event Management System)
• Redispatch 2.0