Bahrain Electricity & Water Authority Signs $28.7M Contract with GE Digital for Grid Software Solutions
September 28 2021 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
- Company to deploy multiple solutions to monitor and control
electricity and water networks in the Kingdom of Bahrain
- End-to-end solution showcases state-of-the-art digitized
operation
GE Digital today announced that the Bahrain Electricity &
Water Authority (EWA) had signed a contract worth $28.7M for
software and services to modernize the Kingdom of Bahrain’s
electricity and water networks. A variety of GE Digital’s
industry-leading Grid Software will be installed in a
state-of-the-art control center that will digitize operations for
increased efficiency and operations redundancy.
This remarkable end-to-end software solution spans the breadth
of operations from transmission to distribution across the
company’s essential electricity and water services. Its
implementation will be integral to the country’s economic vision
and strategy for the future.
“We at the Electricity & Water Authority are keen to provide
electricity and water services at the highest level of quality and
reliability to ensure sustainable development in the Kingdom of
Bahrain, and to become a leading model for providing electricity
and water services,” said H.E. Shaikh Nawaf Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa,
Chief Executive Officer of the Bahrain Electricity & Water
Authority. “This project will facilitate our goals to optimize
asset and network utilization and minimize outages in the networks
for reliability of supply.”
“EWA’s solution is unique in the region and the industry and we
are proud to be a part of it,” said Talal Eskandar, Vice President
for GE Digital’s commercial operations in the Middle East region.
“As the authority serves 430,000 electricity and 310,000 water
customers, digital solutions will assist in optimizing their
customer service and asset management goals.”
Grid Software to be utilized in this solution include:
- Distribution Management: GE Digital’s industry-leading
Advanced Distribution Management Solutions (ADMS) provide for the
safe and secure management of the electric grid. The software
provides EWA with next-generation control and optimization
capabilities that will help them with outage restoration and
overall performance of the grid.
- Transmission Management: The Advanced Energy Management
System (AEMS) provides a better framework for the authority to
optimize the energy and electric transmission in a more innovative
way with improved efficiency by integrating multiple monitoring,
control, and analytics systems into a modular solution.
- Grid Resilience: AEMS Wide Area Management (WAMS) can
monitor and locate system oscillations in real-time reducing the
risk of unnecessary power disruptions and accelerate system
restoration in case of an outage.
- Water Transmission and Water Distribution Management:
The GE Digital team will be integrating EWA’s existing geospatial
asset management system with the distribution network to model and
manage the water operation.
“GE Digital is happy to work with the Bahrain Electricity &
Water Authority to help modernize their networks and increase
resiliency with our solution,” said Jim Walsh, General Manager of
GE Digital’s Grid Software business. “This is a good example of how
our customers are being called on to transform their businesses to
take advantage of digital capabilities that can help them to
achieve their goals of increased grid capacity and reduced
outages.”
More information about GE Digital’s Grid Software solutions can
be found here.
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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