Greentech Lead Middle East: Alstom Grid announced that it
has been selected to run Smart Grid solutions for Kuwait town district.
Through its advanced e-terraplatform and
e-terradistribution solutions, Alstom will create a single system for managing
the medium and high voltage operations of the Kuwait Town District Control
Center.
Besides managing the operations of the grid, the system
access will be extended to maintenance departments to manage MEW
‘s assets, review their health index, and decide on appropriate maintenance
strategies. This new approach combines the previously separated operation and
maintenance processes, allowing the operators to have a better view of the
entire system for increased efficiency.
Using International Electrotechnical Commission’s Common
Information Model (CIM) 61970 and IEC 61968 standards over a Service Oriented
Architecture, Alstom combines the data and events from a variety of sources
into integrated processes at the Enterprise Asset Management level.
“Alstom’s fully integrated solution will take us
into the smart grid design of our system, along the recommendations of the
Smart Grid Maturity Model. Alstom’s e-terra solution suite will improve our
grid’s reliability and efficiency, while providing advanced network security
functions for our grid operators and actionable asset information for our
maintenance staff,” said Ali AL WAZZAN AUS (Supervisory Control Centres
and Information System & Supervision) of Kuwait MEW .
“Alstom’s leadership in both traditional grid
management and smart grid operations will allow the District of Kuwait Town to
quickly adapt to future changes in the system, integrate smart devices and
applications, and renewable generation, while maintaining the same high
standard of efficiency and reliability of their grid,” said Karim
El-Naggar, vice president of Network Management Solutions for Alstom
Grid .