The OMNETRIC Group joined Accenture Utilities at DistribuTECH 2016 in Orlando to give demonstrations to attendees on our next generation outage management solutions.

1. OMNETRIC next generation
outage management

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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
Weather outage costs the
US economy between
approx. $15-$30 bn per year
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 between 1992 to
2010, were due to weather-
related events
Source: Council of European Energy Regulators
ASBL. (2008). 4th Benchmarking Report on the
Quality of Electricity Supply.
Brussels: CEER.
The SAIDI average outage
duration is approx. 240 mins
in the US per customer
served

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Context
• Costs and impacts from major events
• Gaps in current emergency planning,
preparedness, and restoration operations
processes
• Investment lifecycle and operational limitations
of current operational systems
• Balancing customer engagement and
satisfaction with operational priorities
• Stakeholder and community expectation
management
• OMS implementations peaked in the late
1980’s and 1990’s. About 15% of those were
custom built software on Mainframes
• OMS comes into action after an outage has
occurred
• Only “knows” what it is told by a CIS/IVR or
SCADA
• OMS is unaware of external events due to
weather (lightning strikes, wind shears etc.)
• Designed to be a reactive system. Does not
monitor a utility’s network
• Estimated Restore Time (ETR) is computed
based on limited operational data
Background Common outage challenges

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Planning /
Preparedness
Outage
Intelligence
Limitations of current OMS and MWM systems
1. Pre-storm
2. Storm
3. Clean-up
•Storm Path
•Damage & Outage
Forecasting
•Forecasting &
planning
•Pre-staging & call-
out
•Mutual Aid
Outage
Prediction
•Trouble calls
•Fault Location
Assessment
•Damage
assessment
•Work scheduling
• ETR
Restoration
•Crew and Work
Mgmt.
•Service
Restoration
Post-event
management
•Clean-up
•Wind-down
•Performance
Assessment
Most outage management systems are more suited to managing normal operations than
the workflow of major events

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OMNETRIC Next Generation Outage Management
Restoration
Optimization
Outage
Intelligence
Outage
Prediction
Outage
Analytics
Customer Experience and
Stakeholder Management

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DEMO

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OMNETRIC Next Generation Outage Management
conceptual architecture
• Standards based integration platform
• Common data, application integration layers
• Leverage utility’s existing core operational
technologies
• Augment with enhanced capabilities from
multiple vendors / point solutions
Planning and
operations
analytics
3rd party
apps and
online
services
Outage
intelligence
Customer
communication
Outage Data
Initiative
Diverse data
source – AMI,
weather,
social media
Existing
Operations
Systems
Integration Layer
Common Data & Application

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The value of OMNETRIC Next Generation Outage
Management
• More resilient grid
• Happier customers
• More efficient operations
• Satisfied regulators
• Healthier bottom line

9.  Engineering and energy
technology
 Smart grid applications
 Grid control
 Systems integration and
services capabilities
 Proven delivery
methodologies
 Industry-specific
technologies, assets
and processes
Thank you!
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