Solutions

Smart Grid

Rules provide essential intelligence.

A smart grid uses information and communications technology to improve generation, delivery and consumption. Smart grids reduce cost, minimize environmental impact, improve service and reduce waste. But a smart grid takes more than smart meters and electronic monitoring - it needs smart, rules-based applications too.

Energy

  • Grid Operations
    • As more data is collected automatically from the transmission network, grid operators must automate their responses.
    • Handling alerts, re-routing distribution, dispatching repair crews and automating system restore tasks combines business rules with real-time data to improve transmission, not just monitor it.

  • Demand Management
    • Managing demand effectively involves complex rules about availability, generation capabilities and changing demand. Utilities implement business rules to automate generation dispatch, ensuring that generation aligns with demand.
    • Rules-driven solutions enable implementation of real-time availability-based pricing for major customers.
    • Matching demand with generation capacity reduces costs and greenhouse emissions while providing better customer service.

  • Monitor-based Commissioning
    • Large customers have large amounts of equipment installed, all with different power usage characteristics and different roles in the customer's operation. Managing all the rules that determine which pieces of equipment should be used when, which are critical and which optional, and which can substitute for each other is essential for true monitor-based commissioning.
    • Business rules management allows the rules for new equipment to be added quickly and easily and for constant refinement of the operating rules to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

  • Demand Response
    • Smart Meters allow variable rates and provide detailed usage information for customers and utilities.
    • Utilities can use business rules to define and easily update their pricing models while customers can be empowered to define their own operating constraints to manage their demand in the light of new pricing models.
    • Rules to minimize environmental impact, reduce costs and improve efficiency can be managed by utilities and their customers in a truly collaborative way.

    Additional Corticon Energy & Utilities Solutions: Asset Management, Customer Care

    Related Products:Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio, Corticon Business Rules Server, Corticon Dialogs

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