New Zealand’s Counties Energy Partners with GE Digital for its Digital Utility Transformation
November 22 2021 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
- Combining GE Digital’s Advanced Distribution Management System
(ADMS) with Smallworld Electric Office enables better energy
outcomes for their customers and the environment
- Advanced technologies provide a foundational step forward on
Counties Energy’s transformational journey to an innovation-led low
carbon future
GE Digital today announced that Counties Energy, an electricity
distribution network provider, will implement GE Digital’s Advanced
Distribution Management System (ADMS) as part of its Digital
Utility transformation program. The ADMS solution in combination
with the utility’s existing implementation of GE Digital’s
Smallworld Electric Office, a network-based Geographic Information
System (GIS), will drive greater reliability, resiliency and
flexibility for its network assets through richer multi-source
data. The combination of the two platforms will enable smarter,
sustainable, and innovative energy services and solutions that
deliver better customer experiences, operational efficiencies, and
the ability to manage growth intelligently, ultimately shaping a
future-proofed energy platform.
Servicing one of the fastest-growing areas of New Zealand,
Counties Energy is 100% consumer-owned and focused on transforming
its network for the low carbon future. “We are committed to
creating intergenerational value for our customers by enabling a
reliable electricity network and diverse energy choices and
offerings,” said Moonis Vegdani, Group General Manager Technology
and Digital for Counties Energy.
“Driven by the ambition to deliver an exemplary customer
experience, the use of today’s digital capabilities will enhance
the efficiency of our day-to-day operations and our long-term
investments. We aim to build new digital technologies to transform
our existing service delivery, keeping the organisation ahead of
the digital curve and delivering good service to our community,”
Mr. Vegdani continued.
“Counties Energy is well underway on this important journey with
its extensive low voltage visibility through the smart meter
network. This ADMS transformation programme with GE Digital as a
partner, is a key foundational step towards the next phase of our
journey.”
GE Digital’s ADMS solution for Counties Energy combines SCADA,
Distribution Management System (DMS), and Outage Management System
(OMS) capabilities. By implementing this solution, the utility will
have a single platform to safely interact with its network, control
work, and share information in real-time. In addition, by
integrating ADMS and Electric Office, Counties Energy will be able
to provide operators with an accurate connected single view of the
end-to-end network of assets with a fully digital as-built process
flowing from the field to Smallworld Electric Office and on to the
ADMS. The company also plans to create a rich picture of its
network by utilizing its smart meter coverage to increase the
accuracy of the traditional SCADA high and medium voltage view.
Counties Energy intends to leverage the improved knowledge about
their physical assets in new and expansive ways. The company can
leverage advanced analytics to simulate weather impacts and improve
storm preparedness and outage response or understand how the
network will behave under different load and future Distribution
Energy Resources (DER) growth scenarios.
GE Digital’s Smallworld Electric Office software is a scalable
solution with data quality and integrity enforced to support a
fully connected, phase aware, network model. Electric Office models
and manages location and connectivity of electric transmission and
distribution (T&D) network assets from generation through
consumption and distributed energy resources to provide insights
down to the low voltage network.
“Counties Energy is applying innovative technology to further
network reliability for their customers and increase resiliency and
flexibility for network assets” said Jim Walsh, General Manager for
GE Digital’s Grid Software business. “With these new capabilities,
they will enable greater visibility across the network and manage
the growth of distributed energy resources so they can lower the
carbon footprint needed for energy distribution.”
More information about GE Digital’s Grid Software solutions can
be found here.
About Counties Energy
Counties Energy is an electricity distribution network provider
that runs from coast to coast across the southern Auckland and
northern Waikato regions. The company is 100 percent owned by the
Counties Energy Trust who holds the shares on behalf of electricity
consumers. The region is one of the fastest growing areas in New
Zealand, with the company upscaling the business to meet demand,
invest in core business and new technology, from EV charging to
smart grid infrastructure. For more information visit
www.countiesenergy.co.nz.
About GE Digital
GE Digital transforms how our customers solve their toughest
challenges by putting industrial data to work. Our mission is to
bring simplicity, speed, and scale to digital transformation
activities, with industrial software that delivers breakthrough
business outcomes. GE Digital’s product portfolio – including grid
optimization and analytics, asset and operations performance
management, and manufacturing operations and automation – helps
industrial companies in the utility, power generation, oil &
gas, aviation, and manufacturing sectors change the way industry
works. For more information, visit www.ge.com/digital.
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