Planned outage management

Managing switching operations requires peak coordination performance between the required measure, third party companies, staff, customers, government and regulatory authorities, and the actual technical reality.

Relevant efficiency gains and simultaneous security gains can only be achieved by comprehensive digitization.

Benefit from dynamic processes, improving security at the same time

From its start to its finish, the planned outage process involves numerous departments. The integration of the switching measures into the context of the overall task and into the network management makes this solution efficient and field-worthy.

Request

Different requirements - One response

Request in the context of the overall task
Seamless verification in the control system
Automatic determination of the required deenergized area
Generation of step lists with required switching steps - in particular for service restoration
Integrated collision analysis based on area and load

Dispatching

Every switching is a job

Dispatching in the content of the overall task
Staff decisions independent of request process
Complete information for involved customers and requestor
Complete and seamless information transfer to the engineers

Execution

Digital instructions replace the verbal switching coordination

Digital information exchange between control center and engineers
Switching jobs with interactive step lists are sent to the engineers
Simple coordination of team switching operations by synchronous step lists
Can be performed autonomously after initial release by the control center
The control center must intervene only in case of unexpected network states
Ad hoc transfer for step list changes in the control system to PSIgridmobile
Significant additional information by active network diagram
Block instructions for offline operation

Execution of the switching operation in steps

The planning results including interactive step lists are available to the switching staff. The same step list is available to all field crews involved in the switching process so that all involved parties are fully informed at all times - even field crews which are far removed from each other yet must perform switching steps as a team.

The digital switching process also allows ad-hoc changes of the switching steps and the staff scheduling.

Screenshot with step list

Request: Release of a switching step by PSIcontrol (field is yellow):

Verification of location (for example by QR scan)
Interlock checks

Request negative: Field turns red

The engineer is told to contact the control center. The control center can also be alarmed automatically.

Request positive: Field turns green

The step is marked as "Instructed" in the control system. The engineer performs the switching operation and confirms the execution via PSIgridmobile.

Win-Win-Win – Overview of the benefits

Dispatcher

Simple coordination by holistic view of the jobs
Dispatching of field crews
Always updated about the progress of the switching operation

Control room

Improved work environment due to noise reduction by eliminating the majority of daily phone calls.
Real time acquisition of switching states
Focus on complex switching measures