Çalik YEDAS is an electricity distribution company operating in northern Turkey serving over 3 million customers. It distributes electricity across five provinces covering 40,000 square kilometers and 4% of Turkey's population. The company has invested heavily in smart grid technologies like SAP, AMR, GIS, and SCADA/DMS systems to improve network monitoring and management. By 2015, Çalik YEDAS aims to fully integrate these systems to establish a strong smart grid with automated outage response and distributed energy integration capabilities. The company expects regulators and technology partners to support reasonable timelines for completing complex smart grid projects.

1. ÇALIK
YESILIRMAK ELECTRIC
DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (YEDAS)
İLKNUR YILMAZ
PLANNING INVESTMENT AND FACILITY COORDINATOR

2. OVERVİEW TO THE COMPANY
ÇALIK YEDAŞ is an affiliate company of Çalık Holding which has a variety
of sectors:
Textile,construction, telecommunication,finance media and mining.
21st distribution region in the mid Blacksea Region.
Operation area consists of five provinces in the region:
Samsun,Ordu, Çorum,Amasya,Sinop.
YEDAS is connected to the transmission grid at 34.5 kV voltage level
through 25 central stations (154/34.5 kV )
Totally 40.000 km2 service area ( %4 of Turkey)
 3.000.000 population in the region (%5,1 of Turkey)
 Totally 1.600.000 million customers in the region (%4.7 of Turkey)
% 84 is household customers, %11 is commercial customers
Totally 4.5 Twh energy consumption (%3 of Turkey)
 1700 MVA Installed Power (%4 of Turkey)
 Loss rate is %8.28 (as of the end of 2011)
 Totally Staff Number: 2026
YEDAS is the first electricity distribution company in Turkey which has
been rewarded of EFQM 3 star excellence certificate.

3. ÇALIK YEDASs’ PRIORITIES IN THE ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SECTOR
ÇALIK YEDASs’ nvestment budget is 100 MTL/year
Strentghten the existing network infrastructure
Increase the network capacity and operation flexibility
Prove the sustainability for the supply ,technical quality and customer satisfaction
Decrease the technical and commercial losses in the network
ÇALIK YEDAS IS AWARE OF ONLY STRENGTHENED NETWORK IS NOT ENOUGH FOR
THE SUCCESS OF NETWORK OPERATIONS.
SMART MANAGEMENT OF THE NETWORK WILL ADD A VALUE TO WHOLE
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
ÇALIK YEDASs TECHNOLOGICAL INVESTMENTS
 SAP has been activeted with all modules in May 2011
 SAP-ISU (Industrial Solutions For Utilites) has been completed in October ,2012
All customer numbers,meters, addresses and LV network connectivities has been
transferred into ISU system from the existing Abone.Net software
Currently, billing, customer/metering informations , customer connections, customer
complaints/requirements are managed and reported through these IT systems.
The cost of these systems is roughly 18 MTL.
 The mechanical meters has been replacing with the digital ones since 2011. (Total
611.000 meters)

4. ÇALIK YEDASs TECHNOLOGICAL INVESTMENTS
 AMR infrastructure has been founded in 2012.
 60.000 customer meters will have been included in AMR system by the end of
2015. ( Forecasted budget is 28 MTL)
 Whole HV and LV network has been modelled and analysised in digital
environment (Dig Silent) to determine 5 and 10 years network investment
requirements.
 SCADA/DMS Project started in September,2012 and it’s still going on.
Project Budget is 13 MTL for 2012 and 2013 ( 5 MTL has been spent in 2012)
Project is being executed by General Electric Digital Energy.
133 numbers of Central area substations ( 900 feeders) in 5 provinces will have been
controlled and monitored by the end of 2013.
DMS Modules which will be used in DMS System
 Outage Management
 Load Flow Analysis
 Network Management
 Fault Restoration and Isolation
SCADA/DMS System will be integrated with SAP/CRM/ISU /PM and GIS.

5. ÇALIK YEDASs TECHNOLOGICAL INVESTMENTS
 Whole customer addresses and LV connectivities has been included into GIS
system in 2012.
 Remaining HV connectivities and line characteristic parameters/lenghts will have
been included in GIS system by the end of 2013.
Total budget of GIS system is 12 MTL
ÇALIK YEDASs’ SMART GRID VISION BY THE END OF 2015
 Realize a strong integration between SAP/ISU/CRM ,GIS, AMR and SCADA/DMS
for the effective network and workforce management
 Include the all meters of important customers into AMR system
 Establish a strong asset management system using GIS
 Establish asset risk management system using GIS and SCADA/DMS
 Develop and adapt the existing technological systems considering the electrical
vehicles and distributed generation systems

6. EXPECTATIONS
EMRA
 Awarness of successful technological investments require enough time to realize
them ( Process analysises, system conceptive,etc.)
 Give reasonable time to DisCOs to complete the whole integrated distribution
management systems instead of applying penalties.
 Revise the investment budgets as DisCOs can realize their technological systems
accordingly international quality standards.
 Resolve the uncertainity on the technological investments which have been
realized prior to unbundling.
USTDA
 Establish a strong technology connection between DisCOs in US and Turkey
 Lead DisCOs in Turkey to make a proper IT requirement analysis and determine
priorities
 Lead DisCOs to transfer the proper technology at the right time.
TECHNİCAL SUPPORTERS
 Pay attention the proper technological requirements of DisCOs more than
commercial profits
 Make workshops with DisCOs and direct them to advise the best technological
solutions.

7. THANK YOU