Mainfranken Netze GmbH is the grid operator of Stadtwerke Würzburg AG for the electricity, gas, water and district heating grid in Würzburg. It plans, builds, maintains the grid and restores power supply in case of outages. Its goal is to provide high-performance, stable and secure supply grids. The grid control system Spectrum Power™ 5 makes a decisive contribution to optimal and profitable grid management. To ensure security of supply, the company consciously relies on a wide range of functions to support operating staff, on innovative solutions to meet legal and regulatory requirements, and on future technology to implement future requirements quickly and in a targeted manner.

Solution overview:

• Spectrum Power™ 5 version 5.60  
• Migration project, start of operation: 05.2021
• Fully virtualized, redundant and locally separated multi-computer system
• Main and emergency control system, test system, study mode 
• Multi-commodity operation for electricity, water, gas, district heating 
• Nine operator stations with four monitors, large screen wall
• Full service contract for control system, communication infrastructure, IT security/patch management.
  

Function overview: 

• Electrical and pipeline grid topology
• Temporary network elements (TNE)
• Switching sequence management/switching programs  
• Wireless alarming via e-mail and voice message  
• Shift handover protocol
• BNetzA evaluation/interference statistics
• Schedule management with import/export
• Connection to forecasting system Ifesca AIVA
• Load management electricity, gas (LME/LMG)
• BDEW cascade (LAM), EEG Manager
• Load flow calculation for distribution grid 
• Fault localization (FLOC)
• Earth fault/short-circuit search
• Advanced Redispatch 2.0 with PSS@SINCAL 
• Interface with GIS system Lovion
• Data warehouse interface