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Quality Assurance Commitment
ETAP is Verified and Validated (V&V) against field results, real system measurements, established programs, and hand calculations to ensure its technical accuracy.
Each release of ETAP undergoes a complete V&V process using thousands of test cases for each and every calculation module. ETAP Quality Assurance program is
specifically dedicated to meeting the requirements of:
ISO 9001:2000
10 CFR 50 Appendix B
10 CFR 21
ANSI/ASME N45.2
ASME NQA-1
ANSI/IEEE 730.1
CAN/CSA-Q396.1.2
ANSI N45.22
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Customize ETAP to fit your needs,
from small to large power systems
ETAP Enterprise Suite provides one solution to your power system
design, analysis, and operation needs. ETAP offers a comprehensive
suite of analysis modules that can be configured to suit your specific
needs. This modular approach allows you to purchase only the
modules you need.
Featured in this brochure
Dynamics
& Transients
Transient Stability
Generator Start-Up
Distribution
Unbalanced Load Flow
Optimal Power Flow
Transformer Tap Optimization
Switching Sequence Mgmt.
Reliability Assessment
Optimal Capacitor Placement
GIS Map
Transmission
Line
Line Constants
Line Ampacity
Sag & Tension
HV DC Transmission Link
Monitoring
& Simulation
Advanced Monitoring
Energy Accounting
Real-Time Simulation
Event Playback
Load Forecasting
STAR
Protective
Devices
Coordination & Selectivity
Sequence-of-Operation
Relay Test Set Interface
ARTTS
Relay Testing
& Simulation
Relay Test Set Equipment
ETAP Test Set Software
Energy
Management
System
Automatic Generation Control
Economic Dispatch
Supervisory Control
Interchange Scheduling
Reserve Management
Network
Analysis
Short-Circuit – ANSI
Short-Circuit – IEC
Arc Flash
Load Flow
Motor Acceleration
Ground Grid
Systems
Finite Element Method
IEEE 80 & 665 Methods
Intelligent
Load Shedding
Load Preservation
Load Restoration
Load Shedding Validation
Wind Turbine Generator
User-Defined Dynamic Model
Parameter Estimation
Cable Systems
Underground Thermal Analysis
Cable Pulling
Cable Ampacity
Cable Sizing
Power Quality
Harmonic Load Flow
Frequency Scan
Harmonic Filters
DC Systems
Load Flow
Short-Circuit
Control System Diagram
Battery Discharge
Battery Sizing
Panel Systems
Panels ANSI & IEC
Intelligent
Substation
Substation Automation
Switching Management
Load Management
Data
Exchange
DataX
MS Access & Excel
CAD Interface
e-DPP Interface
SmartPlant Interface
Base
Package
Cable Ampacity & Sizing
Transmission Line Constants
Report Manager
Project Management Wizards
Output Report Comparator
Multi-D Database
Libraries
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Power System
Enterprise Solution
ETAP is the most comprehensive analysis platform for the design,
simulation, operation, control, optimization, and automation of
generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial power systems.
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Real-Time
Power, Precision, Performance
Enterprise Power Management Solution
That Expands With Your Needs
Intelligent Power Management
System for Operators, Managers,
& Engineers
ETAP Real-Time extends the traditional data acquisition
systems to an intelligent and power management solution
for operators, dispatchers, engineers, and decision
makers. Its modular applications can be tailored to fit
the needs of each company, from small to large power
systems. Industrial facilities, transmission, and distribution
companies, generation owners, and vertically integrated
utilities can all benefit from the features and functionality of
ETAP Real-Time.
ETAP’s robust and proven analysis algorithms combined
with portable and flexible foundation provides a highly
available real-time system, comprehensive modeling
environment, operator-friendly user interface, and state-of
the-art energy management applications.
Power Monitoring
energy Management
Load shedding
substation automation
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ETAP Enterprise Solution for real-time power management systems is a fully integrated suite of software products that provides
intelligent power monitoring, energy management, system optimization and automation, and real-time prediction applications.
Power Monitoring
Energy Management
Power System Monitoring & Simulation (PSMS) applications allow operators, engineers, and managers to make better and more
informed decisions in the critical aspects of their business.
Energy Management System (EMS) applications are designed to reduce energy consumption, increase electrical system
reliability, improve equipment utilization, predict system performance as well as optimize energy usage.
Advanced Monitoring
Advanced Monitoring provides intuitive, intelligent, and integrated real-time monitoring via a state-of-the-art interface.
Energy Accounting
Energy Accounting provides detailed energy consumption and cost analysis. Reports are generated based on energy
tariffs and electrical power market exchange information.
Real-Time Simulation
Real-Time Simulation is a powerful set of analytical modules that allows the prediction of system behavior in response
to operator actions and events using real-time and archived data.
Event Playback
Event Playback is especially useful for root cause and effect investigations, improvement of system operations,
exploration of alternative actions, and replay of What If scenarios.
Load Forecasting
Load Forecasting reliably predicts and trends system loading based on algorithms that adaptively correlate multiple
input variables such as weather conditions as part of an accurate load forecast.
Automatic Generation Control
Automatic Generation Control is a multi-area supervisory control that utilizes real-time data to regulate generation levels
in order to maintain system frequency and power exchanges with neighboring areas at scheduled values.
Economic Dispatch
Economic Dispatch allocates changing generation demand of a power system amongst controllable generator units to
achieve optimum area economy.
Supervisory Control
Supervisory Control performs steady-state real-time optimization allowing energy consumers to automate the operation
of their power system, reduce system losses, and reduce peak load consumption. Energy producers can improve
power exchange and maximize security.
Interchange Scheduling
Interchange Scheduling manages electrical transaction schedules and dispatches tradings that results from market
activities related to the buying and selling of energy.
Reserve Management
Reserve Management continuously monitors system operating capacity and dynamically calculates the system
generation versus load forecast balance to ensure protection against contingency losses.
Monitor
Monitor
Predict
Predict
Control
Control
Automate
Automate
Manage
Manage
Schedule
Schedule
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Load Shedding
Substation Automation
Intelligent Load Shedding (ILS) is the smartest and fastest proven method of its kind on the market. ILS provides optimal,
fast load shedding based on actual operating condition of the system including type and location of the disturbances. ILS
dynamically determines the best load shedding priority in a fraction of a second.
Intelligent Substation (iSub) is a state-of-the-art management application packaged as a focused product for substation
automation. iSub provides protection, control, automation, monitoring, and communication capabilities as a part of a
comprehensive substation solution.
Load Preservation
Load Preservation first calculates the minimum required power to be shed for each subsystem and accordingly selects
the optimal combination of loads that will satisfy the requirements.
Load Restoration
Load Restoration monitors system operating conditions after a load shedding event and restores loads while maintaining
system stability and reliability.
Load Shedding Validation
Load Shedding Validation evaluates and confirms load shedding decisions in real-time mode. ILS integrates with the
ETAP Transient Stability Analysis module to simulate and verify the load shedding requirements and recommendations
before system commissioning.
Substation Automation
Substation Automation utilizes intelligent analysis processes to dynamically manage the monitored data for substation
level and central system evaluation.
Switching Management
Switching Management allows the dispatcher to build, simulate, and verify a complete switching program using a fully
graphical user interface and execute the approved switching programs in one step while maintaining compliance with
safety and security procedures.
Load Management
Load Management evaluates and implements energy-reducing strategies such as peak load shifting, load start
inhibition, and shedding of non-critical loads to reduce energy cost.
The most intelligent load preservation
system available, hands down.
Speed
Speed
Power
Power
Performance
Performance
Automate & Optimize
Your Substation Operations
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Enterprise Solution
ETAP Power System Enterprise Solution can maximize the entire production process, reduce losses, and increase profits
through continuous monitoring, simulation, and optimization of the system.
Operations
The ability to seamlessly integrate process information with electrical system constraints is essential
to a reliable operation. Virtual testing of operator actions (predicting system response) prior to
implementation can reveal potential problems, hence reducing human errors and the risk of
service interruptions. ETAP assists operators in making informed and logical decisions to reduce
operating costs and improve system reliability.
Maintenance
Real-time maintenance alerts and assessments of system
components insures just-in-time predictive maintenance of
critical plant equipment. Mean-time-to-repair and mean-time-
to-failure rates are calculated to evaluate the network and
equipment online reliability indices. This translates into cost
reduction and prevention of expensive unplanned shutdowns.
Engineering
As the world leader in power system engineering
analysis tools, ETAP integrates with data acquisition
devices to provide actual system operating condition
for the purpose of real-time simulation. ETAP takes the
guesswork out of system analysis.
Financial
ETAP interfaces with existing accounting and billing
systems to provide up to the minute energy usage and fuel
cost information while providing recommendation and
prediction scenarios to minimize peak power consumption
and eliminate tariff penalties.
Planning
System planners can improve performance of production scheduling thus
increasing the system capacity using adaptive planning tools provided by ETAP’s
trending and prediction functions.
As a component of the
Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) system, ETAP optimizes
the exchange of information
between diverse tiers of an
organization while channeling
domain sensitive information.
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Real-Time Benefits
Realized Savings
Features & Benefits
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Advanced monitoring, simulation, & control
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Predict system response to operator actions
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Fast, optimal, & intelligent load shedding & restoration
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System optimization & automation
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Demand-Side Management
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Intelligent one-line diagrams
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Multi-dimensional database
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Time domain event playback with simulation capability
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Integrated alarm, warning, & acknowledgement
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Client-server configuration
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Built-in redundancy & automatic fail over
Operators
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Advanced alarm management
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Flexible graphical monitoring
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Multiple access levels
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Multi-console monitoring
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Built-in redundancy & automatic fail over
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Substation automation
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Train & assist operators
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Preserve critical loads
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Reduce downtime
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Improve operator usability & confidence
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Avoid time-of-use penalties
Managers
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Reliable & accurate plant data
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Single platform – reduced maintenance & support
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Optimize operation & increase reliability
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Minimize operating costs
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Evaluate cost allocation
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Provide data accessibility
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Improve energy conservation
Engineers
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Cause & effect investigation
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What If analysis
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Minimize system losses
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Extend equipment lifetime
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Expand capabilities as site requirements change
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Inherent handling of large scale systems
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Developed under ETAP QA Program
Short-Term Savings
ETAP saves energy costs due to the overall system optimization and power loss reductions. Depending on the size of the
facility, the expected average savings can be thousands of dollars per MVA of load per year. Savings can be considerably
higher for systems that have abnormal losses, circulation power, or energy cost penalties. The informed decision-making is
achieved through:
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Prevention of human errors by predicting the system behavior based on the operator actions or disturbances
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Increased system knowledge by utilizing up-to-date status of the system operating conditions
Short-term savings are also achieved by operators and engineers gaining experience with the power system operation and
reaction.
Immediate & Sustainable Return on Investment
Reduce Energy Usage
Ongoing savings on electricity costs
Optimize System Operation
Significant savings on operation costs
Improve Power System Reliability
Production savings on outages & downtime
Long-Term Savings
ETAP can provide a major reduction in the equipment capitalization cost by increasing equipment lifetime. Ongoing savings are
achieved by continuously operating at a near-to-optimal condition and preventing possible system overload situations.
Intelligent Load Shedding (ILS) will save you money by dynamically minimizing required load shedding, hence reducing system
downtime. ETAP ILS load preservation system translates to savings of millions of dollars in lost revenues, equipment repairs,
and penalties.
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PSMS
Power System Monitoring & Simulation
Advanced Monitoring
Intelligent Graphical User Interface
State Estimator & Load Distributor
Process & Performance Monitoring
Alarm & Notification Management
Provides intuitive and integrated real-time monitoring via an intelligent graphical user interface, one-line diagram, and digital
dashboards. Monitoring functions include checking the condition of the network, estimating missing system states, detecting
network abnormalities, trending metered values, and annunciating alarms based on operating conditions and status changes.
Power System Monitoring & Simulation (PSMS) is at the heart of the ETAP Real-Time management application. PSMS is the
smart choice for both large and small electrical utility systems, generation plants, industrial sites, manufacturing facilities, and
off-shore oil platforms. PSMS can determine the appropriate system response to a variety of changes and disturbances by
using electrical and physical parameters, loading and generation levels, network topology, and control logics. In addition,
PSMS can determine the source of potential problems and advise on corrective actions to avoid interruptions.
Network Topology Builder
Network Topology Builder is a user-friendly environment for
creating and managing of the network database used for
schematic network visualization and is the foundation of real-time
applications.
Features
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Multi-console with multi-screen monitoring
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Graphical monitoring via ETAP one-line diagram
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Visual monitoring via Man-Machine Interface (MMI)
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Alarm annunciation with graphical interface
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Alert of equipment out-of-range violations
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Monitoring of electrical & non-electrical parameters
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Pseudo measurements (override measured data)
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OPC interface layer
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User-access levels
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Continuous real-time monitoring
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On-demand data retrieval
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Data reconciliation & consistency check
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Bad data detection & correction
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Alarm management & processing
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Energy cost monitoring & accounting
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Real-time load forecasting & trending
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Intelligent one-line diagram
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Multi-level nesting of sub-systems
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Multi-color symbols
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Interfaces management switching device
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Unique multi-dimensional database
Extended System Visibility
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State estimation of non-observable subsystems
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Comparison of measured vs. estimated values
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Dependable & fast convergence solution
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Minimum system measurements requirement
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State-of-the-art estimation techniques
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Data consistency checking
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Bad data & error detection
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Load distribution
PSMS can track and record unusual activities with
event logging and alarming tools. This provision allows
for early detection and announcement of problems
before a critical failure takes place.
Changes in system information are displayed
graphically and logged. The calculated results are
compared with metered parameters to provide pop-up
alarms for equipment with missing and out-of-range
data.
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Annunciate local & system-wide alarms
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Warnings based on equipment ratings
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Alarm priority setting & event triggering
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Annunciate out-of-range measurements
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Graphical, tabulated, & audible annunciation
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Predict abnormal conditions & critical failures
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Consider the Cost Savings of
Using Fewer Meters
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