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A Path breaking Technology forA Path breaking Technology forNetwork Maintenance and OptimizationNetwork Maintenance and Optimization

Yousef Al-JaidahManager, Electricity Network PlanningKAHRAMAA

LATEST TRENDS IN GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRICITY SECTOR

Introduction – KAHRAMAA

Electricity Network Affairs

Electricity Network Planning

Electricity Sector, Some Challenges

Raising to the Challenges

The Solution

GIS System Evolution

An Integrated Approach

Delivery Channels

KAHRAMAA is the sole distributer of Electricity and Water in the State of Qatar.

• In the Electricity sector KAHRAMAA operates with 230 Primary High Voltage Substations connected by a total of 1,880 km of Primary Overhead Transmission Lines and 2,530 km of underground HV cable network. The network is coupled with 12,150 Medium voltage substations (11 kV) and more than 11,600 kilometres of underground and overhead cable lines.

• KAHRAMAA maintains a water infrastructure consisting of 6789 Km of Water pipeline networks with 28 Storage Reservoirs having total capacity of 641.5 Million Gallons.

Mission

Objectives

To provide Safe, Secure, Reliable & Adequate electricity supply to all type of customers in the state of Qatar, in conformance to international and regional standards and in a timely manner with the least possible cost.

• Committed to Plan and Design Qatar’s Electrical Network development using efficient technologies, data and materials and strive to satisfy our customers.

• Coordinate with other utility agencies to have a harmonious expansion of State’s assets and infrastructure.

• Review and update Material Specifications. Ascertain the international standard materials are used in KM’s Network.

How to

Improve Power System Reliability

Maintain Power Quality

Optimally Utilize the Power Delivery Assets

Reduce the equipment failures

Reduce the planned / unplanned outages in the system

Increase the awareness for energy Conservation - Tarsheed

Integrate Diesel Generator based micro grids into main network

Equipment Failure Reduces System ReliabilityReduces Power Quality

Under utilization of AssetsIncreases Network CostUn utilized Installed Capacity

Over utilization of AssetsIncrease in Equipment FailuresDecrease in Power Quality

OutagesReduces System ReliabilityReduction in utility income

Fishbone Diagram is helpful in identifying potential factors causing an overall effect

Qatar’s Electrical Network has

Primary Substations – 230 Secondary Substations – 12,159 Consumers – 295,000

and increasing

Bigger challenges provide bigger opportunities

Meeting these challenges gives raise to better rewards

Rewards are in terms to Reliability, Quality, efficiency and economic benefits to consumers and to the utility

Comprehensive and accurate inventory of Electrical Assets

Interconnectivity between the assets with Under ground and Overhead lines

A Comprehensive Service Information that is integrated to the GIS System and that can be retrieved from within the GIS software

Traceable network from the Electrical feeder to the connected customers along with all the electrical assets in between

A system that can be integrated with any database with ease.

A GIS System that can handleA GIS System that can handle

Electricity Network Cables OHL Transformer Switch Bus Bar Circuit BreakerLand Base Topography Parcels

GIS Databases

An Electrical aware GIS system canAn Electrical aware GIS system can

Make it easy to locate the Electrical Assets Help create a comprehensive maintenance schedule

for a given area / zone Identify the customers effected for switching

programs Effectively managing high priority areas while

preventive maintenance scheduling Identifying the electrical feeders in an outage Integrating customer messaging system for any

electrical activity

ArcFM™ is a powerful extension of ESRI's ArcGIS® platform that provides a complete, enterprise utility solution specially for energy sector.

The ArcFM Solution allows utility businesses to make use of a single integrated environment to manage and map multiple assets, leveraging all the power of ArcGIS’s object-oriented system.

KAHRAMAA has awarded a contract to implement an Enterprise GIS solution using ArcFM technology

Functionalities

Procedures

Infrastructure

Applications

Databases

Users

Enterprise

GIS

GIS

Mapping Decentralized databases Some data still in paper No Workflow automation Moderate Quality Data

Enterprise GIS

Centralized & Comprehensive Database Some workflow automation High Quality Data Productivity Improvements

Integrated Enterprise GIS

Engineering Design using GIS Integrating Scada System with GIS Integrating Load flow system with GIS Interface with other enterprise systems

EnvironmentalEnvironmentalImpact AssessmentImpact Assessment Engineering DesignEngineering Design

Asset ManagementAsset Management

Finance and AccountingFinance and Accounting

Customer InformationCustomer Information

IntegratedIntegratedEnterpriseEnterprise

GISGIS

ConstructionConstruction

Outage ManagementOutage Management

SCADA SystemsSCADA Systems

Road OpeningRoad Openingand Building Permitsand Building Permits

Network PlanningNetwork Planning

For any further queries please contact Electricity GIS

Electricity Network Planning

Phone - 44845689Email – electricitygis@km.com.qa

Thank you