Utility to benefit from more reliable, automated
network visibility and faster, safer outage and interruption
management
AUSTIN,
Texas, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion
Energy Virginia is implementing Oracle Utilities Outage Management
System and new advanced distribution management (ADMS)
capabilities in Oracle Utilities Network Management System
to help improve its network visibility, reliability, and
outage management response. The expanded platform will also help
the utility better manage increased data from distributed energy
resources (DERs) and meet its regulatory requirements.
Dominion Energy Virginia provides electricity to 2.7
million homes and businesses. The utility has used
Oracle Utilities Network Management System (NMS) for over a
decade to plan and execute key switching activities across its
network. By upgrading the solution and adding Oracle's Fault
Location Isolation and Service Restoration (FLISR) application for
automated, self-healing support, Dominion Energy will be able to
automatically sectionalize outage impact, enable reduction in
service interruptions and help increase its service
reliability.
Additionally, the browser-based Oracle Utilities Flex Operations
will help Dominion Energy securely extend outage management and
dispatch capabilities beyond the control room. As such, they will
be able to activate remote users to quickly respond to storms and
other major outage events faster and direct restoration efforts
from anywhere. Oracle's Power Flow application will provide
advanced distribution management by monitoring the real-time status
of their networks.
"Delivering the highest levels of service reliability to our
customers and meeting priority KPIs such as reducing service
interruption minutes requires the advanced grid technologies found
in Oracle's FLISR, FlexOps, and Power Flow applications," said
Jason Holland, director of operation
centers and emergency preparedness, Dominion Energy. "Our long
experience with Oracle Utilities NMS and workshop assessments of
their power applications convinced us that Oracle could uniquely
deliver what we need. As we look ahead to the second phase of our
project, their proven OMS capabilities and scalable architecture
will give us a modern management path to faster restoration on a
single platform."
Oracle Utilities Outage Management System (OMS) will be
deployed during the first half of 2024 to replace Dominion Energy's
existing system. With it, the utility will be able to integrate IT
and business operations and easily add new components, while field
crews will benefit significantly from system familiarity and
interoperability with other Dominion Energy operating segments.
Additionally, Oracle NMS Operations Mobile Application
(OMA) will empower crews to receive and execute switching
steps and communicate key activities via mobile devices with
real-time changes reflected in the command centers, enabling faster
responses in emergency situations to quickly assess and mitigate
network damages.
Evolving to meet complex grid needs
Oracle's Advanced
Distribution Management System (ADMS) is designed to help
utilities meet today's needs and prepare for future needs by
monitoring, managing, and effectively optimizing the grid from
distribution to customer. In addition to implementing the FLISR,
FlexOperations, and Power Flow applications, Dominion Energy will
benefit from Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect (LEC), an
OT-centric middleware platform that supports all major SCADA
protocols (e.g., ICCP, OPC, and DNP3). The solution provides
essential, technology-agnostic integration with utilities' existing
SCADA systems and can support future scaling options.
"Our longtime collaboration with Dominion Energy Virginia is the
perfect example of how we constantly evolve our ADMS technologies
to help utilities more confidently meet their most pressing DER,
customer service, regulatory, and other business challenges," said
Brad Harkavy, vice president, Oracle
Energy and Water. "With NMS, Dominion Energy can add intelligent
advanced applications to meet regulatory requirements today, not in
5-10 years. Additionally, with one efficient, scalable platform for
OMS, they will gain efficiencies that transcend business
operations. Field crews will benefit from mobile applications that
expedite their restoration activities during potentially dangerous
emergency response situations and enable critical, real-time
command center visibility."
To see these technologies in action, visit us at DISTRIBUTECH
(Booth #1437) or schedule a meeting by emailing
energyandwater-events_us@oracle.com.
To learn more about Oracle Energy and Water solutions visit:
https://www.oracle.com/industries/utilities/network-management-system/
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