Development of Network Information and Distribution Management Systems from the Aspect of Reporting Requirements
Kinnunen, Kai (2014)
2014
Sähkötekniikan koulutusohjelma
Tieto- ja sähkötekniikan tiedekunta - Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2014-11-05
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201410081498
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201410081498
Tiivistelmä
Finnish Distribution System Operators (DSO) are required to report detailed outage and network asset data from their distribution networks for Energy Authority annually as a part of economic regulation. According to the new Electricity Market Act, maximum outage duration in the town plan area is six hours and 36 hours in other area, caused by storm or snow load. Due to new law, DSOs are obligated to prepare distribution network development plans for authority every two years, starting from 2014. In the development plans, DSOs are required to describe the methods to fulfill the set distribution reliability requirements and report information of their existing and planned distribution network.
In addition to Energy Authority, also Finnish Energy Industries (Energiateollisuus ry, ET) obligates DSOs to report information from their distribution networks annually. Onwards 2015, outages are required to be reported metering pointspecifically.
Due to new and tightened requirements, DSOs used computer systems; Network Information Systems (NIS) and Distribution Management Systems (DMS) need development, enabling proper and accurate data gathering and reporting.
As an outcome of this thesis, several methods to ABB MicroSCADA Pro DMS600 Network Editor (DMS600 NE) and Workstation (DMS600 WS) were developed, enabling proper data reporting. Two additional tools for environmental analysis of the network assets were developed as a part of the thesis. Analysis functions of developed tools are based on Esri shapefiles and open data utilization. Most of the developed solutions and methods were implemented to the DMS600 software during the thesis but some of the solutions were left only in specification or theoretical level. Also few open questions of implementations still remain and future development is needed.
As a part of this thesis, several new reports for Energy Authority were created. DMS600 software uses Microsoft’s SQL Reporting Services-based reporting tool for DSOs’ reporting measures, providing necessary outage and asset reports by embedded SQL queries from DMS600’s databases.
In addition to Energy Authority, also Finnish Energy Industries (Energiateollisuus ry, ET) obligates DSOs to report information from their distribution networks annually. Onwards 2015, outages are required to be reported metering pointspecifically.
Due to new and tightened requirements, DSOs used computer systems; Network Information Systems (NIS) and Distribution Management Systems (DMS) need development, enabling proper and accurate data gathering and reporting.
As an outcome of this thesis, several methods to ABB MicroSCADA Pro DMS600 Network Editor (DMS600 NE) and Workstation (DMS600 WS) were developed, enabling proper data reporting. Two additional tools for environmental analysis of the network assets were developed as a part of the thesis. Analysis functions of developed tools are based on Esri shapefiles and open data utilization. Most of the developed solutions and methods were implemented to the DMS600 software during the thesis but some of the solutions were left only in specification or theoretical level. Also few open questions of implementations still remain and future development is needed.
As a part of this thesis, several new reports for Energy Authority were created. DMS600 software uses Microsoft’s SQL Reporting Services-based reporting tool for DSOs’ reporting measures, providing necessary outage and asset reports by embedded SQL queries from DMS600’s databases.