GRIDmaster Value Creation
Today each utility system produces a separate data stream collected, stored, and applied for a specific, limited application – a business, planning, or specific operations purpose. These data streams typically remain “siloed” – they aren’t yet merged in a way that creates advanced grid management, where planning and operational analytics fine-tune the grid’s physical and monetary performance. Only integrating and analyzing across the silos through AGM will allow utilities to:
• Accurately prioritize asset and load management
• Refine generation dispatch
• Meet multiple system contingencies and reliability objectives
• Fulfill regulatory mandates for energy efficiency, renewable energy portfolio integration, demand response and customer service
• Defend expenditures for grid modernization with advanced Cost/Benefit analyses
Change is underway – and accelerating! Smart Grid designers, engineers and developers are now applying the huge streams and caches of grid asset and operating data to achieve new levels of grid intelligence, responsiveness, visibility, reliability and economy.
GRIDiant collaborates through OEM and VAR arrangements with hardware, communications, and service providers to assist utilities in organizing, storing, integrating, displaying, and analyzing the multiple data streams. For the first time, utilities can be offered leveraged, model-based simulation and display, providing significantly accelerated returns on their Smart Grid investments through more cost-effective capital expenditures and grid operations & maintenance.
GRIDmaster Leverages New Value from Smart Grid Data Streams and Complements Existing Systems
“We find two aspects of GRIDmaster products amazing: First, the real-time speed with which GRIDfast solves extremely large, complex distribution grid analysis challenges, using only notebook-scale computers, with ranked solutions of high value to us. Second, the ease with which GRIDfast-driven modules can be applied for both decentralized, centralized, and hybrid integrated distribution system asset planning and management. We believe GRIDiant’s software tools have the capabilities we’ll need to perform real-time analyses, state estimation, controls, and other operations, as the industry progresses into that development stage of the Smart Grid.” — Chief Technologist for leading US Smart Grid Utility