A future application environment for BC Hydro´s EMS

Author

Vaahedi, Ebrahim ; Chang, Allen Y. ; Mokhtari, Sasan ; Muller, Nelson ; Irisarri, Giullermo

Author_Institution

B.C.Hydro, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Volume

16

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

14

Abstract

The paper reports on the results of a tailored collaboration project sponsored by BC Hydro and EPRI to review the state-of-the-art in EMS architectures addressing the necessary attributes of a modern EMS with respect to scalability, database and user interface openness, flexibility and conformance to industry standards, as well as to provide a migration path for the existing BC Hydro´s EMS. This review was intended to assist BC Hydro in identifying functionality and standard requirements of future EMS procurements and a migration path for a future BC Hydro application program environment. The proposed migration path was prototyped to verify its prudence and applicability in providing an open architecture environment for EMS applications. The BC Hydro On-Line Voltage Stability Analysis (OLVSA) application developed by BC Hydro and Powertech Labs was chosen and integrated into the prototype

Keywords

database management systems; energy management systems; power system analysis computing; power system stability; user interfaces; BC Hydro; BC Hydro On-Line Voltage Stability Analysis; EMS; EPRI; Powertech Labs; XEMS; common information model; data exchange; database; energy management systems; flexibility; industry standards conformance; migration path; scalability; state-of-the-art; tailored collaboration project; user interface openness; Distributed databases; Energy management; Hardware; Medical services; Procurement; Prototypes; Relational databases; Scalability; Transaction databases; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/59.910775

Filename

910775