New Zealand’s Counties Energy Partners with GE Digital for its Digital Utility Transformation
GE Digital announced a partnership with Counties Energy, an electricity distribution provider, to implement its Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) alongside the Smallworld Electric Office. This collaboration aims to enhance energy outcomes, improve operational efficiencies, and support Counties Energy's transformation towards a low-carbon future. The solutions will provide real-time network management capabilities, leveraging data analytics for better storm preparedness and outage response. This initiative is part of Counties Energy's commitment to delivering reliable electricity and diverse energy options.
- Implementation of ADMS enhances operational efficiency and reliability for Counties Energy.
- Partnership supports Counties Energy's transformation towards a low-carbon future.
- Real-time network management capabilities improve storm preparedness and outage response.
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- Combining GE Digital’s Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) with Smallworld Electric Office enables better energy outcomes for their customers and the environment
- Advanced technologies provide a foundational step forward on Counties Energy’s transformational journey to an innovation-led low carbon future
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“Driven by the ambition to deliver an exemplary customer experience, the use of today’s digital capabilities will enhance the efficiency of our day-to-day operations and our long-term investments. We aim to build new digital technologies to transform our existing service delivery, keeping the organisation ahead of the digital curve and delivering good service to our community,”
“Counties Energy is well underway on this important journey with its extensive low voltage visibility through the smart meter network. This ADMS transformation programme with GE Digital as a partner, is a key foundational step towards the next phase of our journey.”
GE Digital’s ADMS solution for Counties Energy combines SCADA, Distribution Management System (DMS), and Outage Management System (OMS) capabilities. By implementing this solution, the utility will have a single platform to safely interact with its network, control work, and share information in real-time. In addition, by integrating ADMS and Electric Office, Counties Energy will be able to provide operators with an accurate connected single view of the end-to-end network of assets with a fully digital as-built process flowing from the field to Smallworld Electric Office and on to the ADMS. The company also plans to create a rich picture of its network by utilizing its smart meter coverage to increase the accuracy of the traditional SCADA high and medium voltage view.
Counties Energy intends to leverage the improved knowledge about their physical assets in new and expansive ways. The company can leverage advanced analytics to simulate weather impacts and improve storm preparedness and outage response or understand how the network will behave under different load and future Distribution Energy Resources (DER) growth scenarios.
GE Digital’s Smallworld Electric Office software is a scalable solution with data quality and integrity enforced to support a fully connected, phase aware, network model. Electric Office models and manages location and connectivity of electric transmission and distribution (T&D) network assets from generation through consumption and distributed energy resources to provide insights down to the low voltage network.
“Counties Energy is applying innovative technology to further network reliability for their customers and increase resiliency and flexibility for network assets” said
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About Counties Energy
Counties Energy is an electricity distribution network provider that runs from coast to coast across the southern
About GE Digital
GE Digital transforms how our customers solve their toughest challenges by putting industrial data to work. Our mission is to bring simplicity, speed, and scale to digital transformation activities, with industrial software that delivers breakthrough business outcomes. GE Digital’s product portfolio – including grid optimization and analytics, asset and operations performance management, and manufacturing operations and automation – helps industrial companies in the utility, power generation, oil & gas, aviation, and manufacturing sectors change the way industry works. For more information, visit www.ge.com/digital.
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