Substation Automation for Transmission Utilities

Easily improve the safety and efficiency of your relay protection testing, compared to traditional testing methods.

Join us to learn how Hitachi Energy has embraced the challenge and opportunity to realized CGS, a case that could become more and more common in the years to come.

The operations center is the central command and control operation of a distribution utility; its ultimate objective is to improve the effectiveness of the organization as whole. Today, analytics are being applied to drive both asset and grid performance.

Do these questions sound familiar? Which technologies are best for your grid? What’s the best way to incorporate these technologies? How do you ensure that you’re getting the most from the technologies that you do introduce?

Starting from the field, the focus is to increase asset visibility and grid reliability. By adding automation on the device layer, utilities improve efficiency and convert the information from analog to digital format. This step is fundamental in providing asset data for more advanced applications, like analytics in higher layers. The applications found at this level can be as diverse as deployment of an AMI and simple monitoring and control of the primary equipment, to more complex actions such as like integration and monitoring of DERs.

The path to becoming truly digital follows a maturity curve with predictable stages of progression. By combining our deep industry knowledge with our expansive breadth of utility-focused solutions, Hitachi Energy has developed a multi-layered approach to digitalization that results in vastly improved operations and significantly increased organizational and customer benefits for distribution utilities.

FITNESS has been a landmark project for Hitachi Energy and this webinar is a real opportunity for us to learn and understand how we might be able to replicate this in support of our customers across Europe in their successful Digital Substation deployment.

Industry-driven wired and wireless communications are critical to optimizing power consumption and intelligent grids in the evolving digital environment.

Increasing adoption of renewable power generation, coupled with the addition of new types of electrical-energy consumption, is drastically changing the grid infrastructure . Whether centralized or distributed, reliance on variable-generation renewable sources and widespread electrification of different sectors (such as transport) is challenging traditional grid management paradigms.

Image-based inspections embedded into the workflow can protect assets, reduce downtime, and assess risks.

HVDC for sustainable energy systems

Power grids are drastically changing with the increasing adoption of variable-generation renewable sources, be it centralized or distributed. Moreover, the electrical load is also changing, with the penetration of electrical vehicles and electrification of other sectors. And it is not only the characteristics of the new generation and loads that changes, but also their number and location in the grid. All of these changes make the power and energy management of the evolving grids much more challenging.

Most distribution utilities are regulated and incentivized to deliver secure, safe and reliable power to the consumers, while an associated control center ensures the reliable, safe, and efficient operation of the interconnected electrical power system. The distribution utility remotely monitors and controls distribution networks and loads from a control center; it also communicates with field crews and interacts with customers.

This technical webinar will focus on why your organization can benefit from Hitachi Energy’ RTU500 series.

Power quality is a major concern for anyone involved in the generation, transmission, and distribution of power, as well as for many industrial and commercial consumers.

The growing number and variety of applications utilized by digital distribution utilities has resulted in multiple parallel networks serving a single application each. Over time, the cost and complexity of managing and expanding such an infrastructure increases substantially. In order to meet the requirements of different applications, a hybrid digital communications architecture is needed—one that effectively leverages a range of different technologies.

We look forward to meet with you at Wind Europe Electric City, 2021. At Hitachi Energy we are aiming at advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible and secure.