The Energy Industry Act set the rules of the game.
The Federal Network Agency is constantly active in a regulatory role, sculpting their market implementation. More competition, greater efficiency, higher dynamics – these were and are the goals and constant challenges for economic success in the energy market.
Access to all energy providers on the network without discrimination, unbundling to facilitate separation of network business, generation, procurement, trade and sales, the new regulations to unify business processes in providing supply to electricity customers – the implementation effort for energy companies, in terms of both time and costs, is often considerable.
In addition to the new requirements, the “classic” requirements have also been further extended. The operator of a network is still responsible for the safe and reliable operation of the respective network within a given zone, for its connections with other networks and for reliable supply. At the same time, systems for metering and charging for the services rendered by all market participants must be in place. Over and above this, the Federal Network Agency controls the network fees.
To this end it requires the following information from the network operators: general structural information, specific network data, load and sales structure data and information on the cost and revenue situation.
The fact that the conversion is largely a success can be attributed to the fact that a large majority of the public utilities have deployed energy data management systems to handle the complex array of tasks. Quality and market topicality of the software solutions play a special role in maintaining a positive influence. The expended effort is more than offset by improved exploitation of efficiency potentials, thanks to the increased transparency afforded by the new data.
BelVis and ControlStar - Two product lines from a single provider
The vast glut of tasks can only be handled in an economical, process-reliable and regulation-compliant manner through the targeted deployment of coordinated, continuous and proven IT solutions.
To this end KISTERS, has developed two product lines which together cover the entire range of technical resource planning and control required by a network operator.
Real-time processes are measured, managed and monitored using KISTERS control technology. The control technology line offers two solutions to try on for size: ControlStar is the implementation basis for medium and large control systems in power and pipeline networks, from public utilities to regional suppliers or transmission system operators with well over 100,000 process variables, object-oriented data model input and extended requirements such as georeferencing, operation control and high availability. ProCoS is the control system for small and medium power, pipeline network and special applications in a Microsoft Windows environment, with an average number of process variables, simple initial data input and process image generation.
The BelVis product line covers all steps from meter readout to time series data management and analysis, right through to further processing and invoice preparation, providing comprehensive handling for all energy data management tasks. The BelVis EDM POWER or BelVis EDM GAS modules constitute the basic system. BelVis SODA takes care of remote meter reading. The BelVis NAM module covers network access management and contractor change processes, and communicates with market partners with the aid of the BelVis Service Controller (BSC). BelVis PRO generates special load forecasts for the networks, completing BelVis coverage of the tasks.
