This document discusses the role of information technology in energy management. It describes how IT applications like energy management systems, distribution automation systems, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems can help ensure the availability of quality power and high operational efficiency. The document also outlines factors to consider when implementing IT solutions, such as adopting open standards, consistent data infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. It provides an example of an online simulation called POWERWEB that is used to test power exchange auction markets.

1. ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
ENERGY MANAGEMENT

2. PRESENTED BY:
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Dharmesh Vishwakarma (36)
Pranav Mhatre (15)

3. Introduction
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Restructuring of power sector has changed the
perception of the power utility companies.
Information Technology (IT) is crucial for
efficient operation and management of power
utilities
The IT applications, however, have been isolated
and sporadic so far.

4. Specific Information Systems For Power Sector
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Energy Management Systems (EMS)
Distribution Automation (DA) Systems
Planning and Energy Accounting Systems
Metering and Billing Systems
Training Systems
Maintenance Management Systems (MMS)
Management Information Systems (MIS)
Power Plant Control Systems
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
Systems (SCADA)

5. Main Objective
The main objective of all the IT solutions are
♦ Ensure availability of quality power
♦ Ensure high operational efficiency
♦ Maintain ecological balance.

6. Factors To Be Considered For IT
Implementation
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Adoption of open architecture and adaptive
communication network based on proven standards and
specifications.
Consistent infrastructure for data collaboration,
communication and interoperability.
Authentication and role-based access to the network.
Robust and scalable architecture to support large
volume of transactions.
Platform-independent application components for easy
migration to new platforms.
Disaster Recovery and Continuity Planning.

7. IT In Energy Management
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The basic aspect of a power system is to
maintain the availability of power
The sustained availability of energy actually
depends on proper maintenance management of
the system
Needs monitoring in plant level and distribution
level

8. POWERWEB
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POWERWEB is an Internet-based simulation
environment for experimentally testing various
power exchange auction markets using human
decision makers.
It is interactive, distributed and web-based
It is designed to host simulations of a
competitive “day-ahead” energy market in the
context of a restructured electric power sector

9. Home Page

10. Registration
The first time you visit POWERWEB you will need to
register for a username and password which you will use
to identify yourself each time you access POWERWEB4 .
Click on the Registration link in the navigation bar on the
left side of the home page and follow the link to register.
This will take you to the form .You may choose whatever
you like for a username and password. When you have
registered successfully, please write down your
username and password and keep them in a safe place.
You will need them each time you visit POWERWEB. The
information you enter is only to give us (PSERC) an idea
of who is using POWERWEB.

11. Registration

12. Creating a Session
• After registering, select the Login link and enter
your username and password. You will be
presented with a list of sessions as shown in next
Slide. At the top will be listed any existing
sessions that you are eligible to log in to 5 . The
list at the bottom will contain templates from
which you can create a new session.

13. Create Session

14. Submitting an Offer
In each trading period, you will see the Offer Submission
page . The total system demand and total system generating
capacity are shown in the table at the top of the page. In this
experiment, the total demand in each trading period will be
200 MW, slightly more than half the total generating capacity.
In the second table, you will see the capacity and cost of
each block of power available from your generator. All
capacities and costs will remain constant throughout the
experiment. Next to the cost for each block is a field for you
to enter your offer price. Your offer price is the minimum
price at which you are willing to sell the block.

15. Submitting Offer

16. POWERWEB Architecture
POWERWEB employs a distributed architecture on
several different levels. First, it is a client server
architecture, in that all user interaction with POWERWEB
is via a web client (a browser, or applet running within a
browser) communicating with the POWERWEB server.
Second, the POWERWEB server also has a distributed
architecture consisting of several independent
processes, such as the web server, the database server,
and the computational server, each of which can be
running on different computers.

17. Architecture

18. SAVE POWER, SAVE LIFE