Next Generation Outage Management Solutions presented by OMNETRIC Group at European Utility Week 2015 in Vienna

1. Next Generation
Outage Management Solution

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Power outages have significant impact
on economy.
Weather outage costs the US economy between
approx. $15-$30 bn per year
There will always be another event testing the grid
Source: President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, with assistance from the White House
Office of Science and Technology, 2013

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There will always be another event testing the grid
Source: Evan Mills, Extreme Grid Disruptions and Extreme Weather, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S. Disaster Reanalysis Workshop, May 3, 2012
+75% of reported disruptions in US
between 1992 to 2010, were due to
weather-related events

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There will always be another event testing the grid
Source: Council of European Energy Regulators (Ref: C14-EQS-62-03 12 February 2015 ) CEER Benchmarking Report 5.2 on the Continuity of Electricity Supply y.
Brussels: CEER.
The SAIDI average outage duration is in
Sweden 155 mins, in Norway 144 mins or
Austria 40 mins per customer served.

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How can utilities outperform outcomes of current technology
options?
Integration into core operational technologies
Proven core platform
3rd party apps & online services
Open data layer &
analytics apps
Active defense and security
Cloud-based or onsite analyticsDiverse data sources & social media

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• Forecasting analytics to predict storm
magnitude and impact
• Extending the “eyes” of the utility via two-
way customer communications including
multimedia integrated with OMS
• Updating corporate social media pages
automatically via integration to OMS
Next generation outage management concept

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Intellegent pre-outage analytics
CHALLENGES:
Key challenges in doing …
assimilating both weather together
with asset data in order to plan ahead
SOLUTION:
Our solution is to simulate the effects an
ice storm on distribution assets to forecast
damage and therefore customer outages
in order to achieve reduced restoration
times through better resource
preparations.

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Simulation Wind/Ice Loading and
Optimal Resource Pre-planning
Simulate wind loading and ice
accumulation that the storm will
bring
The probabilities of devices
opening along the network
Visualize the customer impacts,
which we’ll use to guide our
resource pre-planning.

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• Refine outage intelligence and Estimated
Times to Restoration with additional
geospatially-tagged data sources
• Proactively communicate with customers in
real-time to set expectations, reducing peaks in
call center activity
Data mined from social media can support core
utility goals
Grid control

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Events unfold in seconds
Selectively capture information and integrate into OMS

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Social Media mining (Twitter, SMS, Facebook etc.)
The role of social media
Customer communications can take place in parallel with the utility’s outage
management operations
Outage Management System
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