Space-Time Energy Composite (STEC)

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Space-Time Energy Composite for the End-to-End Smart Grid delivers profitable demand response, energy reliability, and sustainability by simplifying management of smart assets and distributed resources and enabling optimal resource balancing.

Key Components:

• Alerting for Wide Area Management to improve system reliability by providing situational awareness of disturbances and enabling rapid response
• Demand Response Procedures for load curtailment requests, including load saving simulations
• Demand Response Management to evaluate DR contribution of assets, pricing strategies and SLA compliance
• Management of Distributed Energy Resources such as wind assets by monitoring operating parameters and wind forecast data
• Optimized Asset Selection for Load Drop Curtailment
• Grid Visualization with Analytics and Process Workflow to minimize business disruption, providing a visual tool to help determine the root cause of an event
• Condition Based Maintenance enabled by prioritizing and optimizing maintenance of wind turbines based on user-defined guidelines
• Automated Reporting for Compliance with regulatory guidelines

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Space-Time Crisis Composite (STCC)

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Space-Time Crisis Composite enables rapid response to current, evolving and pending emergencies by displaying the current impact of severe weather and other extreme events on grid stability and asset performance and enabling remedial action that can be initiated by users from the same screen.

Key Components:

• Alerting tracks weather (hurricane paths, lightning strikes, floods, cloud cover) and other potential natural calamities (wildfires, earthquake aftershocks), and man-made disasters using a space-time dashboard
• Predictive Path Analysis, enabled by what-if capability to simulate a range of trajectories for natural and man-made calamities and identify critical infrastructure assets in the path
• Impact Analytics calculate the human cost, financial liability, and regulatory issues associated with each calamity and asset
• Situational Awareness and Alerting is delivered on one screen with data from real-time data feeds, sensors, SCADA systems, GIS, WFM, EAM, and data historians, and other sources to geospatially display live situation, performance and asset data. Multi-view situation screens give simplified, 360° full context, multi-data layer views. Receive automated alerts based on thresholds and event correlation
• Guided Remedial Procedures enable display of online pop-up scripts to guide execution of remedial action schemes mandated by best practice or critical infrastructure regulations
• Root Cause Analysis, enabled by ability to play back events on-screen with full context, gives insight to preventive actions
• Asset Data Access to critical assets complete with real-time and historical data and analyses
• Space-Time Crisis Management Guidelines: Repository of configurable operating thresholds, exceptions, condition-based alerts and procedures

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Space-Time Service Composite (STSC)

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Space-Time Service Management enables optimization of field service performance and efficiency in the context of real-time environmental factors.

Key Components:

• Situational Awareness, including field workforce locations, inventory data, weather and traffic for improved scheduling and dispatch and improving Service Order completion and grid realibility
• Real-Time Data Integration, seamlessly, from multiple systems such as outage management, workforce management, inventory management, scheduling, sensor data, weather and traffic
• Service License Agreement and Schedule-Based Alerting linked to remedial action scripts and guided workflow
• Liability Calculation for missed SLAs linked to remedial action scripts and guided workflow
• Cost Based Calculation for workforce cost-based metrics such as contractor labor or over-time, to analyze lowest-cost scheduling
• Proximity Visualization of skilled, equipped, and available field personnel to outages and service centers
• Context-Sensitive Time and Distance Visualization including real-time traffic, weather, and inventory data feeds
• Real-Time Visualization of Outages and Disturbances using integration of SCADA, sensor, and customer data
• Workload Forecast Visualization for re-assignment of work order notifications, training, and long-term planning
• Automatic Permit Filing of county or federal work permits using context-sensitive help

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Space-Time Asset Composite (STAC)

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Space-Time Asset Management enables holistic geospatial asset intelligence for asset lifecycle management.

Key Components:

• Geospatially Visualizes Asset Condition with timely alerts and dashboards including key performance indicator (KPI) thresholds for asset performance management
• Condition-Based and Reliability-Based Maintenance, enabled by viewing asset condition, environmental, needs, and usage forecasts, warranty, instrumentation and procurement information in a single view
• Provides Geospatial understanding of Maintenance Activities and Asset Performance
• Visual Carbon Indexing, providing benchmarking for green investments as well as providing renewal assets carbon footprint
• Impact Analysis regarding asset performance, downtime, financial impact, inventory, customer service, and reliability information
• Instant Visual Ability to Assess Asset Condition and Maintenance Needs by integration with technical documentation, CAD drawings, warranty and other parts information
• Analyze and Visualize the Financial Performance of Assets under a variety of conditions including opportunity cost, emission cost and break-down cost
• Mitigated Liability Exposure by enabling timely replacement and repairs of hazardous and critical assets
• At-a-Glance Understanding of Variances by supplier and required versus available skill sets
• Intuitive Prioritization of Asset Management activities by visualization of financial information
• Improved Asset Management: greater asset reliability, uptime, and ability to be eco-friendly while cutting costs

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Space-Time Renewables Composite - Wind (STRC-W)

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Space-Time Renewables Management for Wind delivers the visual analytics and context-rich, situational information necessary to properly site, manage and maintain a wind farm. Satellite and asset-level views enable context-rich decision making and support online initiation of corrective action and environmental response.

Key Components

• Wind Prospecting enabled by visual identification of viable wind corridors, sites and predictable wind terrains using telemetry feeds from Met-towers and climate data providers such as NCDC / NOAA
• Terrain Friendliness assessment from ground hardness to accessibility, supply lines and land compliance enabled with geospatia, terrain, and weather factor information visualization
• Grid Accessibility assessment enabled with spatial visualization, assessing "electric distance" and "spatial distance" and helping predict transmission congestion problems ahead of investments
• Purchase Plan Compliance facilitated through simulation of contractual compliance for various generation capacities under alternative weather, humidity and other ambient conditions
• Operational Reliability improvements through the ability to monitor functioning of wind assets under various load and operating parameters. Use auto-alerts triggered by threshold violations to deliver timely maintenance
• Uncertainty Mitigation, enabled by utilizing wind forecast data and spatial anemometrics to mitigate wind intermittency and increase reliable throughput and scheduling
• Guided Remedial Procedures, displayed via online pop-up scripts to guide execution of remedial action schemes mandated by best practice or critical infrastructure regulations
• Root Cause Analysis, enabled by full-context play back of events on-screen, giving insight into preventive actions
• Asset Data Access including complete, real-time and historical data and analyses
• Space-Time Renewables Management Guidelines: a repository for storage of configurable operating thresholds, exceptions, condition-based alerts and procedures

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Space-Time Market Composite (STMC)

Space-Time Market Management delivers geospatial visualization and analytics to improve wholesale energy demand and supply balancing.

Key Components

• Generation and Transmission Visualization, ability to visually locate generation and transmission schedules submitted either “day ahead” or “real time”
• Identify Price Points that are most economical, and avoid grid congestion during peak demand
• Wholesale and Distribution price analytics by market forces
• Analytics of Congestion hot-spots
• Integrated Views of multiple markets – forward and real time

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