The new enhanced mobile operations will improve the connectivity between field crews and the control room by simplifying and digitizing the interaction.
SAN RAMON, California – GE Digital announced the availability of the latest release of its Advanced Distribution Management Solution (ADMS). It delivers reliability, productivity, and efficiency through a modular architecture, adaptive algorithms, and predictive analytics for autonomous and optimized distribution grid and renewables operations.
Advances in the software enable electricity distribution utilities to optimize their operations with increased flexibility and operational awareness. This means that field crews and operations are better connected to provide an effective and efficient response to power distribution situations, including getting power restored more quickly in case of an outage.
As the industry commits to decarbonization through renewable sources like wind, solar, electric vehicles, and energy storage, GE Digital’s ADMS, with Distributed Energy Resources (DER) orchestration, enables utilities to enhance grid resiliency and reliability.
It also includes a new set of tools to support Automated Deployment and Testing to streamline upgrades and deployments for faster time to value.
With this update enhanced DER awareness and orchestration for distribution grid operations, improving capabilities of connected resources by modelling, visualization, forecasting, monitoring, and controlling assets. The advanced applications are able to efficiently analyze and leverage renewable resources for grid operations.
The new ADMS enables operators to deliver a more effective and efficient response during the most severe weather. This release includes a leap forward in Outage Management applications, supporting utilities in decentralizing their outage response. A modern, intuitive user interface guides operators through the restoration process. It also empowers restoration specialists to work in concert across the utility with increased visibility for effective coordination of work throughout the organization and multiple locations.
“Every day, management of the grid becomes more challenging,” said Jim Walsh, GE Digital General Manager, Grid Software. “The growth of Renewables and DERs provides an opportunity for electric utilities to leverage these new resources to manage grid reliability and resiliency. The distribution network is becoming more dynamic and working-from-home has increased the reliability needs for the low-voltage and secondary grid. Our software supports the full spectrum of electric utilities – from small to large – with mission critical, storm-proven systems,” he concluded
The new enhanced mobile operations improve the connectivity between field crews and the control room by simplifying and digitizing the interaction. Field crews are provided with a real-time view of the grid, and switching orders allow switching to be recorded directly from the field. This streamlines grid management through secure field and control room collaboration delivering visibility and control to the field crew.
Source: GE