In addition to the supply of electricity, natural gas, district heating and drinking water, the business areas of Stadtwerke Schweinfurt GmbH also include the operation of Schweinfurt's city buses and the SILVANA sports and leisure pool. Today, the company is also focusing on the forward-looking topic of renewable energies. Spectrum Power™ 5 makes a decisive contribution to safe and effective grid operation and is an innovative system basis for coping with future requirements and tasks.

Solution overview:

• Spectrum Power™ 5 version 5.60 
• Upgrade project, start of operation: August 2022
• Fully virtualized, redundant multi-computer system distributed across three locations
• Test system and study context 
• Multi-commodity operation for electricity, gas, water and district heating
• Service contract for system service and IT security and patch management
• Telecontrol protocol IEC 60870-5-104 
• Network monitoring with SNMP and Checkmk to IEC 104 
• Medium-voltage network with approx. 500 local substations
• Drinking water network with waterworks, six elevated tanks and five pumping stations in three pressure zones
• Gas network with 25 gas pressure regulating stations (GDRA) and 15 gas pressure regulating stations (GDRMA) for industrial customers with approx. 28,000 remotely reported data points

SCADA functions: 

• Electrical grid topology 
• Switching sequence management 
• Wireless alarming via VoIP

Higher value functions:

• Schedule management 
• Load forecasting (electricity, gas and district heating)
• Generation forecast
• Load management electricity (LME)
• Load management gas (LMG)
• Load flow calculation and state estimation
• Short circuit and earth fault search
• GIS integration
• Advanced Redispatch 2.0 with PSS@SINCAL