Siemens

Smart Generation and Smart Transmission & Distribution

Enabling Generation & Renewables

HVDC and FACTS are among the power grid’s primary “actuators.” These power electronics-based systems enable the power flow’s control. Although their main purpose includes capacity increase and bulk power transmission, we will explain why they are important tools for preventing blackouts.

Phasor Measurement Units and the Grid

With large numbers of PMUs and the ability to compare shapes from alternating current readings everywhere on the grid, we will discuss how automated systems will be able to revolutionize power system management by responding to actual conditions in a rapid, dynamic fashion to reduce blackouts.

Smart Grid Integration

Develop a Smart Grid transition strategy, roadmap and staged-deployment plan specific to your needs, including Smart Grid readiness assessment as well as options for a well-structured transformation program with a benefits-oriented planning and clearly defined priorities. We will focus on reliable, efficient, and practical innovation and implementation in each segment and provide specific expertise in generation, transmission, distribution and market.

Meter Data Management Systems

Smart meters alone do not a Smart Grid make. Meter data management is a key component for realizing additional functionalities such as using metering data for outage management. See how meter data management systems (MDMS) can use metering data and feed this information to other systems, such as a DMS or OMS, to improve the visibility of the grid.

Automation in the Grid

Substation automation and protection is the backbone for a secure transmission grid operation. Learn how advanced distribution automation concepts promote automatic self-configuration features that reduce outage times to a minimum, also referred to as “self healing grids,” and the use of distributed energy resources to create self contained cells called “micro grids.”

Energy-Centric Process Transformation: Bridging Operational Technology to Information Technology to create business value

This session will review the direction of the operational and enterprise technology convergence that enables new levels of process automation/system integration which provides enhanced business capability and value. Today's market, impacted by climate change, regulatory and policy influence creates a paradigm shift requiring energy companies to become more flexible and efficient. This shift begins with challenging centralized generation models and enabling the market with renewable decentralized energy or even mobile generation in the form of electric cars. The change in generation impacts transmission and distribution grids as they are faced with a higher level of customer participation and interaction caused by bi-directional energy flows or conservation initiatives.

To facilitate the shift, generation companies will further optimize their fleets, transmission and distribution companies will invoke new capabilities of strategic asset management while retailers will accelerate development of customer service capabilities. To realize these capabilities in the Smart Grid context, operations technology underpinned by IT and new processes will form the foundation of an energy market having more data, information and knowledge to support near real time decisions from generators through end consumers.

Smart Consumption

Buildings of the Future

This session will provide a look to the future, with an overview of Smart Grid activities in the U.S.; the technologies that are making realization of its benefits achievable; a look at the Building of the Future and how applications such as energy storage, energy trading, passive climate and other emerging concepts will create new opportunities for commercial and institutional buildings and their owners and operators to benefit from the sustainability movement underway."

Preparing a Building for Smart Grid

Customers want better energy transparency and management. This session will describe how to establish an energy efficient infrastructure that leverages a building automation system to take advantage of Smart Grid. Specifically, attendees will learn how to prepare for demand response event signals dynamic energy pricing signals coming in from the utilities, and develop an action plan to capitalize on the incentives and avoid peak charges. Also discussed will be the dynamics of energy control and the need to balance demand with supply."

Smart Grid – The Vital Role of Industry

The “Clean Energy Economy” is driving economic recovery in the U.S. and around the world. Key components are using less energy, tapping into renewables, and above all, reinventing today’s power grid to handle a revolutionary new two-way conversation between supply and demand. As the largest consumer of power, industry’s role is vital. This session will discuss the value that control system integrators can deliver through assessments, process re-design, and business case analyses for industrial customers taking their first steps to join the Smart Grid.