Stadtwerke Herne AG has been reliably supplying its customers with energy for more than 120 years. A company steeped in tradition has become a modern energy service provider that is always looking for new ways to supply and generate energy - for its customers and for our environment. Spectrum Power™ 5 is an indispensable system component for safe and profitable grid operation and monitoring. With the system upgrade, the grid control system of Stadtwerke Herne AG is made fit for the future. In addition to covering current functional and IT security requirements, special attention is being paid to ensuring long-term service and patch capability as well as the expandability of the system with regard to future requirements.

Solution overview: 

• Spectrum Power™ 5  
• Upgrade project, order received February 2023 
• Start of operation: still in implementation 
• Fully virtualized, redundant and locally separated multi-computer system
• Multi-commodity operation for electricity, gas and district heating
• Eight operator stations with three and two monitors respectively
• Advanced control system grid
• Service contract for control system, communication infrastructure, IT security/patch management

Telecontrol protocol: 

• IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850 and TG800 

System scope: 

• Power station ~ 600 
• Gas transfer stations ~ 6  
• Total data points ~ 32,000  
• Remotely reported data points ~ 24,000 
• Total world images ~ 400

Function overview:

• Study mode/switching simulation
• Test mode for simple point-to-point testing
• Import and export interfaces for the engineering data model as xml and xls
• Electrical grid topology
• Temporary network element (TNE) 
• Switching sequence management/switching programs 
• Advanced Redispatch 2.0 with PSS@SINCAL (external interface)
• BDEW cascade (LAM)  
• EEG manager