e-terraassetmanager

Overview: In today’s competitive energy environment, the optimization of portfolio assets to maximize operating
and trading profits is of utmost importance. Proper management of information relating to capabilities, constraints,
availability, asset costs, fuels, weather, emissions and markets is required. This data must be presented so business
users have the ability to make timely decisions when addressing market conditions. ALSTOM’s T&D Energy
Automation & Information Business’* e-terraassetmanager™ provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for the
collection, timely update and presentation of vital asset information. E-terraassetmanager utilizes a robust solution
engine that can quickly solve new business problems by optimizing user-defined objective functions and
constraints. This tool quickly and effectively evaluates various business strategies, giving the competitive edge to
the market participant.
· Supports the physical trading E-terraassetmanager Functions Data Management and Presentation:
desk with up-to-the-minute asset
capability and operating cost in-
E-terraassetmanager provides a · Unified information management
complete set of functionalities for and access to multiple data
formation; managing commercial generation, sources
· Supports portfolio trading with and load assets. The main
resource costing and optimiza- components of this product include: · Data organization by markets/
tion; portfolio
Information Management
· Provides a single conduit of in- The Information Management module · Web-enabled displays
formation from real-time opera- collects, manages, and presents data.
tions, standing data, historical · Data archival
Data sources:
data, and energy markets; · Reporting
· Utilizes a unified and flexible · Plant instrumentation
data presentation and manage-
Portfolio Management
ment scheme to allow easy ac- · Plant operation system The Portfolio Management module is
a highly flexible analytical tool that
cess to data by users; · Fuel management system allows for formulating and solving
· Manages and optimizes resource complex optimization problems
schedules; · Emission tracking
including cost- and price-based
· Provides more accurate results · Standing data including ratings strategies. The solution engine
through detailed modeling of gen- and performance characteristics utilizes a commercial package, which
eration, load, energy transactions, provides a high-level modeling
transmission system bottlenecks,
· Market feeds language for problem formulation.
and operating conditions; · Trading system including forward Cost-based:
· Simulates various market condi- and option trades
tions and business strategies and · Unit commitment/transaction
Real-time updates: evaluation including fuel
forecasts market prices;
constraints, emission constraints,
· Supported by complementary · Notifications of asset operating
crew constraints, transmission
functions in the products: conditions through pagers,
constraints, up and down time
alarms, and pop up messages
· e-erramarketmanager constraints, ramp rates,
· e-terradealmaker · Asset-specific market notifications generation ‘must run’ and
banking statuses, and ‘take-or-
· e-terrageneration pay’ contracts, and dispatchable
loads
· Cost-based dispatch to evaluate
pre-defined commitment
schedules and to analyze various
load curtailment and trading
strategies
· Cost-based production costing to
determine cost of production with
fixed commitment and dispatch
schedules; production costing may
be performed both in the before-
the-fact and after-the-fact modes
Price-based:
All functions performed in the cost-
based scenarios can also be
performed using bid or market
clearing prices. In addition, price-
based portfolio management can be
performed for:
· Asset and trade evaluation for
wholesale transactions
· Day ahead market scheduling,
bidding, and resource planning
· Hour ahead bidding, and
schedule adjustment
· Asset positioning, and
procurement analysis
Market Simulation
The Market Simulation module
supports forecasting and simulation
tools for:
· Load and ancillary service
forecasting
· System and locational price
forecasting
· Bidding strategy and competitor
behavior modeling
ALSTOM T&D Energy Automation & Information
11120 NE 33rd Place · Bellevue, WA USA 98004 · +1 425 822 6800
E-terraassetmanager
Technical Architecture
User Interface
· Choice of Web-enabled and
desktop applications
· Java Swing technology
· JSP
Database
· ORACLE
· JDBC/ODBC compliant
Operating system
· NT, Windows 2000
· Unix
Integration Capability
· CORBA-based ORB integration
(Visibroker 4.x)
· Standard API
· Distributed Event Notification
Architecture (DENA)
· File, database, and messaging-
based integration capability
www.tde.alstom.com
*ALSTOM EAI Corporation is certified by
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.® to the
International Organization for
Standardization ISO 9000 Series Standards
for Quality.
The Energy Automation & Information site
in Massy, France has obtained an ISO 9001
certification for its activities: “Engineering
and integration of management and
telecommunication system for electrical
networks.”
ISO 9001: 1994
A3991
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Corporation. All rights reserved.
The information in this document is subject to
change without notice.
ESCA and HABITAT are registered trademarks.
The e-terra family of products and services are
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EAI Corporation.
Other product and company names in these
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