Next Generation SCADA Systems

“The global power sector SCADA market was worth $2.48 Billion in 2023 and is forecast to reach $4.98 Billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.2% during the forecast period 2024-2032.” (Source: Zion Market Research)

Driving this growth is a combination of increasing global power demand, integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, implementation of advanced metering infrastructure, emergence of microgrids, growing adoption of cloud-based SCADA systems and analytics solutions, and rising deployments of smart grid technologies in general.

How is your group leveraging the opportunities that next generation SCADA systems present, and how will you overcome the implementation complexities that go hand in hand with new technology integration on this scale?

At SGT25 we have dedicated a whole technical track to utility implementations of advanced SCADA systems. In the course of these two days you will gain leading edge insights into the successes, setbacks and future roadmaps of Europe’s pioneering utilities, presenting you with the benefit of foresight and providing you with the opportunity to plan for success.

Just some of the topics that will be addressed during the SCADA track include:

✅ DER Landscape – quantifying the impact of DER integration on control centre processes such as forecasting accuracy, supply and demand balancing, and grid stability and frequency regulation

 ✅ Real-time Monitoring & Control – managing the influx of high volumes of AMI, IoT, and sensor data from across the grid to maximise situational awareness and effectively support operators

 ✅ Offshore Wind – managing the impact of voltage fluctuations, frequency instability, and harmonic distortion on the real-time monitoring and control of offshore windfarms integrated into the grid

 ✅ DERMS – implementing DERMS to manage the growing number of distributed energy resources connecting to the grid in the transition to a more decentralized energy system

 ✅ SCADA/EMS – identifying the next generation features and functionalities required to ensure advanced situational awareness of a wider geographic area as the transmission grid increases in complexity

 ✅ SCADA/DMS – determining the requirements of next generation systems to support real-time monitoring and control of a more dynamic distribution grid as the need for grid edge intelligence increases

 ✅ WAMS – applying wide area monitoring and control through the collection and processing of high-speed, time-synchronized measurements of voltage, current, and frequency across wide areas of the power grid

 ✅ OMS – integrating advanced outage management functionality with smart meter data to fully automate outage responses and improve response times

 ✅ CIM Integration – applying the Common Information Model to a range of power grid use-cases and boosting workforce engagement through an effective educational programme that drives speedy adoption

 ✅ Visualisation – integrating next generation visualization tools into legacy operational system infrastructure to enable intuitive interfaces and customisable dashboards drawing on multiple data sources for a holistic view of the grid

 ✅ HMI – leveraging AI&ML driven tools to fully automate real-time operations, minimise operator intervention, and fast track the migration to the self-healing grid

 ✅ Cloud – leveraging high-performance low-cost flexible cloud solutions to drive the cyber-secure monitoring and control of the rapidly evolving DER driven grid

 ✅ Alarm Philosophy – adopting dynamic alarm management strategies to better review alarms, optimize settings, enhance functions, significantly reducing alarm floods, and improve operator response times

 ✅ Fault Isolation & Service Restoration – leveraging travelling wave-based protection to drive high speed high accuracy fault location in renewables heavy grids

 ✅ Process Automation – identifying the control centre processes that must be prioritised for automation by building a solid foundation for decision support systems

 ✅ Solar Farms – implementing advanced control algorithms and strategies to balance solar generation intermittency and maintain overall system stability

That’s not all! SGT25 provides a comprehensive programme of utility discussions and case-studies, bringing senior management together with technical teams, and utility product specifiers together with the supplier ecosystem. Turning vision into strategic reality, and strategy into flawless delivery in the race to guarantee Europe’s future energy security.