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June 21, 2010, Nuremberg, Germany and New
York, USA - The Energy Sector, Power Distribution Division of Siemens
Aktiengesellschaft (Siemens) together with SCS Info Tech, LLC (SCS), a New
York based company today announced the acquisition by Siemens of QuickStab®
-- a fast and field-proven software that has been successfully used by
utilities in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States to perform
real-time and offline stability assessment and monitoring.
"Operating the power system without
knowing its stability limit is risky, especially because this limit is
continuously shifting as system conditions change", said Mr. Gerd
Pollhammer, General Manager, Energy Automation Solutions. "A grid
operator's ability to quickly and accurately estimate the distance from
any operating point to a state where voltages may collapse and units may
lose synchronism is the first step towards preventing blackouts -- and
that's exactly what Siemens can now offer by providing the innovative,
user-friendly, yet technologically advanced
QuickStab seamlessly
integrated with Spectrum PowerTM and as an offline application as well". (read
more about this announcement...)
January 12, 2010, San Jose, Costa Rica
-- The System Operator in Costa Rica, also known as Centro
Nacional de Control de Energía (CENCE), an operational unit of
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE),
together with Energy Consulting International (ECI) Inc. today announced
the successful implementation of ECI’s QuickStab® Advanced
(QuickStab). The program will be used to monitor the power
system’s security margin and identify operating conditions with
unacceptable stability reserves.
“ICE’s power grid plays a role of paramount importance in the operation of
the Central American interconnected electric system”, said Mr.
Salvador López Alfaro,
General Director of CENCE. “In its capacity of System and Market Operator,
CENCE is taking all the necessary steps to ensure that timely decisions
aimed at maintaining and enhancing the operating reliability are
adequately implemented” (read
more...).
November 5, 2009, Bucharest, Romania --
Energy Consulting International, Inc. (ECI) together with the National
Power Control Operational Unit (DEN) of the Romanian National Power Grid
Company S.A. (TRANSELECTRICA) announced the successful upgrade of the
currently existing real-time and offline
QuickStab®
to the new version 3.82.34 of
QuickStab®
Advanced. At DEN,
QuickStab®
has been used in real-time dispatching since
2004, when it was seamlessly integrated by AREVA T&D with the SCADA/EMS.
TRANSELECTRICA's operational experience with
QuickStab
was documented in IEEE papers and CIGRE
reports, and in books published by Springer Verlag and John Wiley & Sons.
"The era of real-time stability monitoring began in Romania with the
real-time implementation of
QuickStab
at DEN", said ECI's CEO Savu C. Savulescu.
"The new and innovative features available now in
QuickStab
Advanced, such as MaxLoad analysis and
look-ahead dynamic contingency evaluation will provide DEN additional
knowledge towards minimizing risk and maximizing the use of the
transmission network". (read
more...)
May 12, 2009, New
York, New York -- Energy Consulting International, Inc. (ECI), a New
York based private corporation, today released the version 3.81.33 of its
suite of software tools for power system stability monitoring and
analysis. Packaged under the trade name QuickStab® Advanced,
this upgrade incorporates new features and capabilities that further
enhance the fast, field-proven and user-friendly QuickStab.
This upgrade: supports a broad range of look-ahead voltage stability
studies where the load can be increased/decreased on user-selected buses
or system areas whereas the generation is rescheduled in accordance with
user-specified patterns; performs steady-state stability profiling of load
buses; and comes with significantly enhanced usability features.
(read
more...).
Paris, France and New
York, USA (March 5, 2009) - AREVA Transmission & Distribution (AREVA)
together with Energy Consulting International, Inc. (ECI), a New York
based private corporation, today announced the implementation of the
real-time version of QuickStab® on the AREVA's e-terra™ SCADA/EMS of
AzerEnerji from Azerbaijan. "We are delighted that AREVA has added one
more customer to the growing family of utilities that rely on QuickStab
to perform real-time stability calculations on e-terra™" said Savu C.
Savulescu, CEO of ECI. "Using QuickStab to detect system conditions that
may lead to blackouts will provide the system operators and operating
reliability engineers from AzerEnerji the knowledge needed to minimize
risk while maximizing the use of the transmission network of Azerbaijan".
"AREVA has pioneered the technologically challenging real-time tracking of
the risk of blackout", said Mr. Marc Lamey, Vice President of AREVA.
"We've always been at the forefront of the SCADA/EMS industry in providing
advanced solutions to ensure grid reliability. With QuickStab seamlessly
integrated into AREVA's extensive array of applications, we are offering
the most complete suite of network analysis tools available today" (read
more...).
July 21, 2008,
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- The Independent System Operator in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known in Bosnian language as NOS BiH (NOS),
together with the Power Distribution Division of Siemens Energy (Siemens)
and Energy Consulting International (ECI) Inc., a New York based private
corporation, announced on May 21, 2008 the successful installation, site
acceptance testing and commissioning for production grade operation of
QuickStab® seamlessly integrated with the new Spectrum
SCADA/EMS platform delivered by Siemens AG Austria.
"Operating a transmission grid without knowing the exact stability margin
is risky, especially because this limit is continuously shifting as system
conditions change", said Mr. Peter Fesser, Director Global Sales at
Siemens in Nuremberg, Germany. "A grid operator's ability to clearly and
accurately estimate the distance from a given operating point to the state
of maximum loadability is a tremendous advantage. And that's exactly what
Spectrum can now offer as a result of the integration of the innovative,
easy-to-operate QuickStab grid analysis tool". (read
more...)
August 17, 2007, New
York, New York
-- The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), the utility responsible for
transmission and distribution in Long Island, New York together with
Energy Consulting International (ECI) Inc., a New York based engineering
firm specializing in the development of innovative, new electric power
analysis technologies, today announced the implementation of ECI’s
QuickStab® Professional (QuickStab). The program
will be used to monitor in real-time the system security margin and to
identify operating conditions with unacceptable stability reserves.
“LIPA is fully committed to provide high quality service to
its customers”, said Mr. Janos Hajagos, Area Planning Manager, “and has
consistently taken the necessary steps to maintain and enhance the
operating reliability of the grid. The implementation of
QuickStab in the Control Room in addition to the already extensive
array of tools available to our system operators is another step forward
in our continuing effort to stay at the forefront of the information and
control technology”
(read
more...)
QuickStab
is available immediately to utilities, consultants and universities. To
request additional information or to make arrangements for a presentation,
please contact Mr. Joerg Berghaeuser, Director Global Sales, Energy
Automation Solutions, by e-mail
joerg.berghaeuser@siemens.com,
phone + 49 911 433-8174 or in writing to Siemens AG Energy Sector ED EA
SOL GS, Humboldtstr. 59, 90459 Nuremberg, Germany.
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