Gary Ockwell

Chief Technology Officer, Advanced Control Systems

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ACS demonstrated at 2017 Distributech in San Antonio integration between best of breed technologies from Europe and US with energy management system (EMS) from PSI Software AG, Germany and PRISM ADMS from ACS Atlanta - including industry first Transmission Outage Management Sys.

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Oct 30 powerful winds and rain took down trees and wires in Norwich Public Utilities. Over 30 different faults across Norwich’s system, which caused thousands of events and customer outages, were successfully handled in real-time by control center operators and ACS' PRISM system.

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ACS' largest US utility, with closed-loop #selfhealing network automation, has over 3000 switches w/ remote control for customer restoration

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ACS PRISM integrated EMS transmission apps SE/LF/CA integrated with transmission OMS has completed FAT and is being shipped to Texas (#STEC)

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Distributed #Smartgrid automation should be additive. #Smartgrid technologies should coordinate using same data & model. Otherwise not smart

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Large utilities should consider distributed automation rather than the old model of a centralized ADMS solution. see https://t.co/tNQDlDRkqc

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ACS offers a low cost #DERMS pilot to deploy field tested automation. Install, analyze, understand, plan next steps. https://t.co/wXMAzmk7kS

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Whereas Irma caused outages over 17 hours, for 78,963 customers in Georgia, ACS' #Centrix restored them in seconds https://t.co/xxtCz77Ab8

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ACS #Centrix protected 1.3 million meters from Georgia’s historic storm, Irma, by auto restoring 74 outages. 82 million meter minutes saved!

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ACS' Centrix self-healing technology at #GeorgiaPower restored 82 million customer minutes in one day, rather than suffer a long term outage

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Large energy storage units & DER require sophisticated management. ACS can increase injection capability 30% by optimizing feeder parameters

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Reliability Versus resiliency: Consumer load based #renewables increases reliability, Utility based #renewables increases network resiliency

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ACS distributed #DERMS feeder controlled #MicroGrids, offers the consumer energy reliability and offers the utility network resiliency.

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Combination of renewable PV with energy storage batteries will minimize control of traditional feeder devices and maximize feeder resiliency

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#PRISM or #Centrix #DERMS improves feeder #powerquality to the extent that #renewable injection can be maximized without Voltage violations.

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Feeder #Volt/#VAr is optimized by ACS #DERMS, through control of #photoVoltaic injection, even while capacitor switching is reduced by 20%

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ACS announces partnership with PSI Germany to bring world class transmission network security #EMS analysis operations to US utility market

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ACS has demonstrated considerable electrical operational savings using #Volt #VAr control. Savings show a quick return on the investment.

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An electrical island is an outage, yet with a power source. Outages caused by #Maria could be islands if DERs are controlled by #Centrix #in

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PRISM & Centrix #renewables enhances FDIR #selfhealing. #Selfhealing switching leads to Voltage problems, #Volt/#VAr corrects them. #in