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General Director of Rosseti Centre - the managing organization of Rosseti Centre and Volga Region Igor Makovskiy took part in a meeting of the working group of EnergyNet NTI, which discussed the results of the project “Digital Distribution Zone - Yantarenergo”.
The meeting, which took place via videoconferencing, was attended by the head of the working group of EnergyNet NTI Oleg Grinko, representatives of “T-System” LLC, NTI “Russian Venture Company”, “Tavrida Electric” LLC, RusHydro PJSC, JSC “Energomera”, JSC “Monitor Electric”, Higher School of Economics, JSC “Yantarenergo”.
As part of protecting the project “Digital Distribution Zone - Yantarenergo”, Igor Makovskiy made a presentation on the initiatives being implemented in the company.
He recalled that this is the first project of the EnergyNet National Technology Initiative, approved by the interagency working group under the Bureau of the Presidential Council for Economic Modernization of the Russian Federation.
Since 2016, it has been able to implement five of its stages: distributed automation has been completed, a comprehensive energy monitoring system has been equipped, the integrated automated process control system “OLIMP” has been implemented, using a grid model created in accordance with the CIM standards and having all the modern functions of DMS, OMS, EMS and others. In addition, a roadmap for changes in the regulatory framework has been developed, and as part of the final stage, guidelines and reports on the calculation of technical and economic indicators of the project.
“All the technologies and principles of the project have already been scaled not only in the Kaliningrad region, but also in the territory of other subsidiaries and affiliates of Rosseti’s Group of Companies. So, for example, the creation of Digital Distribution Zones in Lenenergo, the Moscow region, Siberia, and primarily in the territory of 20 regions of the service area of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region, is currently underway,” stressed General Director Igor Makovskiy.
As part of the project “Digital Distribution Zone”, Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region, by the middle of 2020, will create 30 Digital Distribution Zones, where more than 940 reclosers, about 1,300 disconnectors, and about 1,500 stand-alone short-circuit indicators will be installed. More than 2,300 6-10 kV bays will be reconstructed at 35-110 kV distribution points and substations, and 212 commercial metering stations, more than 5 thousand telemetry cabinets and 77 thousand commercial metering devices will be installed.
“The implementation of technology allows for organizational changes that increase the economic efficiency of the project, for example, by combining two Distribution Zones into a single one, as well as raising the function of dispatch control from the Distribution Zone level to the upper level,” emphasized General Director of Rosseti Centre - the managing organization of Rosseti Centre and Volga Region Igor Makovskiy.
Assessing the results of the implementation of the project “Digital Distribution Zone - Yantarenergo”, Oleg Grinko, the head of the working group of EnergyNet NTI, noted that the project allows us to see in practice what is happening and how the activities of the grid company are being transformed. “When you begin to structure and model in one space, while constantly remembering about the main task - ensuring socio-economic effects, you see you are collecting a key model of activity based on interest, benefits, responsibility and resource allocation between all participants in the system,” he emphasized.
Oleg Grinko also invited to take the next step, to discuss integrated design approaches and to join in the pilot work on the effect calculation method developed in the framework of the project “Digital Distribution Zone - Yantarenergo”:
“We are ready, together with ROSSETI, to make this technique a robotic element for calculating and optimizing business models, that is, to create an observable model of a comprehensive project that can calculate and predict economic effects. Based on the results of this project, serious work can be done to scale not only in a separate electric grid company, but also in the Russian Federation as a whole. Now, within the framework of EnergyNet, the next evolutionary step of Saki Digital Distribution Zone is being implemented. In it, we are focused on a solution that would be the best in the world in its class, and we plan to pilot the project in India, China, Latin America, South Africa.”
