Boosting
Sustainability and Resource Efficiency in the Water Sector
Control Center + DataAnalytics + Telemetry solution for Water & Wastewater infrastructures
Boosting
Sustainability and Resource Efficiency in the Water Sector
Control Center + DataAnalytics + Telemetry solution for Water & Wastewater infrastructures
Water
EPAL (Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres, S.A.) + Águas do Vale do Tejo
Lisbon Portugal
Customer
Largest, most
advance Water & Wastewater utility in Portugal
Serves 34% portuguese population
(3,5
million)
Covers 33% mainland Portugal (87
municipalities)
Situation
No unified Control Center + Telemetry solution to centrally manage main Water & Wastewater infrastructures in an optimum integrated way considering own Renewable plants
Diversity of installed base
(equipment and protocols) and disaggregated
information led to low operation efficiency and increased costs, due to
challenges to analyze and compare operational data in real time
Objectives
Digitalize Water + Energy
data, create dashboards and Data Analytics (from
main infrastructures / Renewable plants / Substations), allowing Benchmarking
Optimize operational
management,
maximizing use of Renewables
(reduces Greenhouse Gases emissions)
Energy
neutrality
(by maximizing use of own Renewable energy production)
Increase Sustainability
(monitor and reduce Greenhouse Gases emissions)
189 Power quality meters (SENTRON) + 645 Energy meters (SICAM)
188 cabinets with HMI Touchpanels (SIMATIC) + Power supplies (SITOP) + UPS
Project Planning, Engineering, Installation, Commissioning, Training
"This is a very important project in terms of resilience, macroeconomics and national competitiveness, because it prevents that the country (Portugal) is subject to the whims of the global energy markets which, in turn, are subject to political issues and wars in various regions. These are factors that, naturally, Portugal cannot control and, consequently, suffers the consequences.""...we did this to maximize resilience – so many things can happen, such as floods, fires, and other events. This way, our grid is completely protected and insulated from extreme phenomena/events. As well as to minimize all environmental impacts associated with a surface grid. In short, more euros, more safety, less CO2."
EPAL's CEO, José Sardinha (Ing.)
Consolidation of all data on Water processes and Energy consumption in one unifed digital platform, covering the whole infrastructure including renewable plants and substations
Digitalization of overall water and energy data into common smart analytics dashboards to improve and optimize operations
Optimization of operational management, maximizing use of Renewables (reduces Greenhouse Gases emissions)
Energy neutrality (by maximizing use of own Renewable energy production)
Increase Sustainability (monitor and reduce Greenhouse Gases emissions)
