Retele Electrice Romania is implementing a new automated advanced distribution management system (ADMS) and an efficient workforce management system (WFM), thus continuing the digitalisation of the electricity distribution network, the company announced in a press statement on Friday.
The project is valued at over RON 135 million, and services were purchased at a tender held on the public procurement platform.
"We are constantly modernizsng the electricity distribution network, with the aim of increasing its resilience and flexibility, so that the service offered responds as best as possible to the current and future needs of our customers. The implementation of new advanced monitoring, control and operational efficiency systems will allow a more efficient management of the grid and will ensure a reliable and safe distribution of electricity," said Mihai Peste, general manager of Retele Electrice Romania, quoted in the release.
According to him, the digitalisation on of the infrastructure contributes to a significant reduction in intervention times in case of power outages.
"Through these strategic investments, we aim to strengthen the quality of the distribution service and facilitate the transition to a sustainable energy system capable of integrating renewable energy sources more and more efficiently. The new systems will be fully integrated and automated and will replace the existing ones, thus facilitating the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms to transform the network into a resilient one and to ensure safe working conditions for our colleagues and partners," said the CEO.
The project will address an essential and complex component of the efficiency of electricity distribution, considerably improving the network parameters and the quality of service. That will lead to smaller intervention times in case of power outages, process digitalisation and an increase in the efficiency of specific activities, as well as improved users' access to the distribution service, higher quality of distributed energy and shorter outages both planned and unplanned.
The ADMS Integrated Platform, with the power grid analysis and modelling modules (DMS/EMS), will be financed by European funds under the Sustainable Development Program, and the SCADA components and the outage management system (OMS) natively integrated into the platform, as well as the operational efficiency system (WFM) will be financed from own funds.
The implementation of the integrated ADMS platform, through all its modules, replaces the current corresponding information systems. The IT solutions are fully integrated and will be automated, so that the electricity distribution network is more resilient and prepared for the challenges brought by climate change and new consumption needs. In addition, through the WFM operational efficiency system, operation and maintenance processes will be modernizsd.
Retele Electrice Romania operates networks of a total length of about 134,000 kilometres in three areas of the country: Muntenia Sud (including Bucharest), Banat and Dobrogea, covering a third of the local distribution market, and develops an investment programme to improve the quality of services, the safety and performance of the networks and the local implementation of the environmental standards of the PPC group. The electricity grids operated by Retele Electrice Romania have 289 transformer stations and over 25,000 transformer substations.
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