DISTRIBUTION

Energy Management Solution for Power Systems

Design, Operate & Automate Smart Grids

The unified electrical digital twin platform

 ETAP Solutions Drive Utility Objectives & Priorities

Distribution Network Analysis, Planning, Protection & Advanced

Distribution Management System (ADMS), leveraging the Electrical Digital
Twin.
ETAP Grid™ offers integrated distribution network analysis, system
planning and operations solutions on a progressive geospatial platform for
simulating, operating and optimizing the performance of Smart Grids.
ETAP’s electrical Digital Twin serves as the active blueprint of the grid
and is the foundation for unified engineering and a real-time platform that
seamlessly integrates multiple applications to accelerate productivity,
increase efficiency and enable digitization of power systems at every
stage of the electrical life cycle.

Grid Compliance & Safety & Efficiency Risk Management,

Modernization Resilience & Reliability

Key Benefits

✓ Common electrical digital twin model with a unified interface, synchronized from multiple data sources
✓ Modular, responsive components using the latest hardware & software technologies
✓ Eliminated file-based data transfer & minimized effort to synchronize multiple databases
✓ Reduced software maintenance cost by utilizing a single software

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 Fully Integrated, Unified Digital Twin Solution
From Design to Operation

Digital Transformation for Energy Sustainability

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 Network Modeling & Visualization

An integrated logical and geospatial electrical digital twin foundation to model, configure,
manage, and visualize electrical distribution networks.

Quickly and easily build 3-phase and 1-phase AC and DC network one-line diagrams
and GIS views with unlimited buses and elements, including detailed instrumentation and
grounding components.

Multi-Dimensional Digital Twin Geospatial View

• Multi-dimensional planning using project wizards • Intelligent electrical GIS view
• Rule-based data entry & modeling • Distribution equipment modeling
• Scenario visualization & simulation • Intelligent circuit tracing & loop detection
• Intelligent data exchange interfaces • Incremental import from ESRI® & CIM
• Server-client applications with user-access control
• Base & revision data layers with merge management
• etapPy™ – scripting & study automation using
Python™

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Intelligent One-line View Feeder, Substation & Network Diagram
• One-line diagram & templates • Synchronized electrical geospatial diagram, substation
• AutoBuild - automatic equipment connection mode & equivalent circuit views

• Built-in intelligent graphics • Model 1,000s of components as an equivalent feeder

• Network nesting • Generate a logical feeder layout for individual or groups

of feeders in single or multiple views
• Synchronized GIS & one-line views
• Display simulation results on geospatial & feeder views

Data Collection & Synchronization

View, create, edit and share ETAP one-line diagrams and engineering data
across desktop and mobile devices - anytime, anywhere. Simplify your data
verification and validation while you are out in the field and synchronize with
ETAP directly over wireless communication.

Download for free from the App Stores.

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 Network Analysis

A powerful set of analytical tools allows for simulation, prediction, design and planning
of system behavior utilizing an intelligent one-line diagram and the flexibility of a multi-
dimensional database.

Unbalanced Load Flow Unbalanced Short Circuit

Calculate bus voltages, branch power factors, Simulate unsymmetrical system faults for
currents, and power flows throughout the electrical unbalanced networks.
system.
• Unified AC & DC fault simulation
• Consider swing, voltage-regulated, and unregulated • 3-phase unbalanced and 1-phase networks
power sources
• Run and evaluate all fault types in one study
• Connect multiple power grids and generators
• Shunt, series, and simultaneous faults
• Perform analysis on both radial and loop systems
• Fault current as a function of time with AC & DC decay
• Simulate protective device responses to fault currents
and configuration changes
Time Domain Load Flow
Simulate varying load and generation in the system
and solve the steady-state power flows over a
function of time.
• Load growth planning
• Renewable energy assessment
• Consider unlimited loading and generation patterns
• Define seasonal variations including holiday
adjustments

Reliability Assessment
Assess availability and quality of power supply at
each customer service entrance.
• Calculate reliability energy (cost) indices
• Calculate system reliability indices
• Calculate bus and load-point reliability indices
• Model reliability characteristics of each component
• Rank element contributions to energy (cost) indices

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 Integrated & Powerful Simulations

Load Allocation Ground Grid Systems

Calculate unbalanced load allocation and non- Design and analyze ground protection, quickly and
technical loss. accurately.
• Estimate individual loads on a feeder, based on load • Flexible design methodologies for quick auto-designed
classes, load type, load curve, and load measurements layouts or highly detailed schemes
• Integrates with transmission state estimation to provide • Fast analysis of irregular large-scale renewable
a unified and complete picture applications
• Color-coded graphical plots
• Automatically generate a two-layer soil model from soil
measurement data

Harmonics Cables & Lines

Simulate harmonic current and voltage sources, Design cable & line systems to operate to
identify harmonic problems, reduce nuisance trips, maximum potentials while providing secure and
design and test filters, and report harmonic voltage reliable operation.
and current distortion-limit violations.
• Calculate cable sizing, cable pulling tension, thermal
• User-expandable harmonic source library analysis
• Model voltage & current harmonic sources • Perform line sag & tension calculations
• Consider harmonic source magnitudes & phase angles • Analyze line impedance constants & ampacity
• Global, local & individual location compliance rule book
for voltage & current distortion

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 ArcSafety TM

All-in-one software solution to perform AC and DC arc flash analysis on LV, MV, and HV
systems.

✓ Calculate incident energy at multiple locations ✓ Hazard evaluation for shock protection & PPE
✓ Worst-case arc flash scenario evaluation ✓ Integrated with Star-Auto Evaluation & TCC views
✓ Arc flash labels, study data sheets & work permits ✓ Identify mis-operation due to arc flash

AC Arc Flash
Identify and analyze high-risk arc flash areas
with great flexibility, by simulating and evaluating
various mitigation methods and comply with
IEEE1584-2018, DGUV-I 203-077, NFPA® 70E
2021, ENA NENS 09-2014 requirements.

High Voltage Arc Flash

Evaluate arcing fault hazards for high voltage
systems 15 kV and above, automatically determine
the working distance and minimum approach
distance based on the system voltage, transient
overvoltage conditions, and altitude and comply
DC Arc Flash with OSHA 1910.269 Appendix E and NESC-C2-
Calculate the incident energy for direct current 2012 to 2017 requirements.
applications: mission critical facilities, substation
battery banks, photovoltaic plants, nuclear plants,
and transportation systems.

Arc Flash Auto-Evaluation

Automatically assess, evaluate, and graphically
report arc flash incident energy levels at different
fault locations.

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STAR - System Protection & Coordination

Analyze system protection and troubleshoot false trips, relay and breaker mis-operation,
mis-coordination, and more.

✓ Time-Current Characteristic (TCC) Curve ✓ Automated Protection & Coordination

✓ Protective Device Coordination & Selectivity ✓ Zone Selective Interlock Scheme
✓ Sequence-of-Operation ✓ Protective Device Design Assessment
✓ Protection Zone Selection & Viewer ✓ Verified & Validated Protective Device Libraries

StarZ™ - T&D System Protection & Coordination

Gain insight into line protection, protective relay performance & evaluation, troubleshooting false trips,
and system-wide protective device operation.

Star Auto - Automated Protection & Coordination

Rule-based design and automatic protection & coordination evaluation based on customized design
criteria and industry guidelines to reduce months of work to a few hours.
• Automated & intelligent detection of protection zones
• Automated Overcurrent Protection & Coordination Evaluation
• Support of NEC, IEEE, IEC standards & industry practice rules
• Customized evaluation criteria based on Star RuleBook™

Boost productivity & save time with automated protection & selectivity

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 eProtect - Protection Asset Management System
TM

Centralized protection asset management solution integrated with ETAP Protection &
Coordination software to manage location, information and settings throughout the
lifecycle of protective relays and substation assets.

✓ Increased data quality & access management ✓ Multi-user environment for relay management
✓ Automatic processing & setting file generation ✓ Relay settings tracking dashboard & notification
✓ Relay setting change management ✓ Protection visualization & evaluation
✓ Protection system maintenance plan ✓ Health monitoring & maintenance
✓ NERC compliance summary reporting ✓ Integrated with Advanced Fault Analysis System

Protection
Relays

Design & Analysis

Workstations
eProtect
TM

As-Found
As-Optimized
Fault Waveform
As-Designed
Fault Location
eProtect
As-Operated
Seq. of Operation Web Clients

Data Exchange & Synchronization Relay Settings Change Management

• Automatically import the PD settings • Compare As-Found to As-Designed settings
• Download settings via FTP/SFTP/IEC 61850 • Auditing of studies & implementations
• Upload settings to devices remotely • Automatic notification of settings changes
• Interface with vendor-provided software • Make data commonly available from all sites to users
• Import manually collected setting files • Flexible and secured architecture
• Web interface accessible via mobile devices
• Data collection via etapAPP

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Network Optimization

Volt/VAR Optimization (VVO) Switching Optimization

Optimize system-wide voltage levels and reactive Optimize tie-point configuration based on multi-
power flow for efficient distribution grid operation. objective requirements to minimize system real
Reduce system losses, peak demand or energy losses and reduce or eliminate abnormal operating
consumption using Conservation Voltage conditions.
Reduction (CVR) techniques.

Optimal Capacitor Placement Fault Management & Service Restoration

Place capacitors for voltage support and power Determine optimal restoration strategies against
factor correction while minimizing installation and forced outages to recover maximum number of
long-term operation costs. affected customers.

Transformer Tap Optimization

Determine the optimal turns ratio of a transformer
to deliver maximum reactive power output.

Optimal Power Flow

Optimizes system operating conditions, and
adjusts control variable settings, while ensuring
system constraints are not violated.

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 Advanced Distribution Management System

Model-Driven Planning, eSCADA, DMS & OMS Solution

ETAP ADMS offers an intelligent and robust decision-support platform based on a unified
Digital Twin of the electrical network, with a collection of geospatial-based distribution
network applications integrated with mission-critical operational solutions, to reliably and
securely manage, control, visualize, and optimize small-to-vast distribution networks and
smart grids.

• Integrated electrical asset information with network connectivity & visualization

• Predictive analysis for what-if & future conditions
• Advanced decision support analysis & adaptive optimization applications
• Improved system outage response time & reduced restoration cost
• Reduced downtimes & operational risks
• Improved system safety & security through real-world simulations
• Accelerated dispatcher operation training
• Command & control of substation assets
• Built-in cyber security
• Secure grid management developed on a secure-by-design platform
• Shared network management & visualization platform with extended field mobility
• Robust integration with any legacy protocols and OEM hardware
• Enabled implementation & integration with 3rd party platforms

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eSCADA TM

ETAP eSCADA™ is a model-driven electrical SCADA software and Data Acquisition &
Control hardware that offers an intuitive real-time visualization and analyses platform
via intelligent graphical user interface, one-line diagram, geospatial view, and digital
dashboards.

SCADA Human-Machine Interface Alarm & Trending

Intuitive, intelligent, and integrated real-time • Advanced alarm and event management
monitoring via a state-of-the-art interface.
• Real-time and archive data trending

Native Communication Protocols Web & Mobile Views

Connect and communicate with third-party Access data via mobile views and applications
hardware, DCS, or data collection systems via capable of connecting to multiple ETAP Real-Time
built-in standard network protocols. Servers and Workstations. Monitor and analyze the
system from anywhere using web-based HMIs.

SCADA Integrator Supervisory Control & Optimization

Standardized and reusable templates for efficient Validation tools for switching actions, machine
system integration, and rapid deployment. operations, and more.

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 Distribution Management System
ETAP Distribution Management System (DMS) is an intelligent geospatial-based (GIS)
distribution network solution that proactively reduces peak demand, optimizes network
assets, while assisting distribution networks to deliver electricity more efficiently, reliably,
securely, and economically.

Network Connectivity Analysis Feeder Balancing & Loss Minimization

Dynamically update electrical system topology Automatically determine the system configuration
such as branch impedances, loading, connectivity, to provide optimal status of existing switching
breaker status etc., to calculate the real-time devices and suggest locations for new tie-open
energization state; interface colorizes network points to minimize system losses and reduce or
maps based on various criteria. eliminate abnormal operating conditions.

Volt/VAR Optimization & Control

Monitors real-time voltages, watts, and vars from
LTCs, regulators, capacitors, voltage sensors,
and customer meters to optimize and control the
desired power factors and voltage targets.

Load Allocation
Intuitive, intelligent, and integrated real-time
monitoring of unbalanced distribution systems,
including estimation of unobservable subsystems,
and calculation of technical and non-technical
losses.

Switching Order Management System

Enables power system dispatchers, operators
and managers to request, assign, track, and log
Fault Isolation & Service Restoration
switching work orders.
Identifies the section of the network to be isolated
due to a forced outage and provides information
on the affected customers. Determines optimal
restoration strategy without reenergizing the fault
and overloading the existing circuits.

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Outage Management System - OMS
OMS assists in the restoration of power by predicting failures of isolation devices and
providing information on outage extent and number of customers impacted; interfaces
to third-party applications for Crew Management, Storm Management, and Estimated
Restoration Time.

Planned Outage & Optimization Storm Damage Assessment

Load curtailment and optimization applications to Field crew records and reports the scope of
schedule and execute planned outages to improve network damage to operator via mobile devices in
system reliability and switching strategies. order to quickly evaluate, manage and mitigate.

Trouble Call Management

Records and summarizes outage-related customer
trouble call information to analyze the location of
any ticket and monitor the repair progress.

Outage Analysis Outage Analytics & Reporting

Data acquired from monitoring devices is recorded
Automatically track outages, predict their most
and logged to provide a complete history of
likely source and share information across your
sequence-of-events (SOE) tracking and playback.
utility.

Crew Dispatch & Mobile Workforce

Management
Enables quick creation of standardized and
reusable templates, efficient system integration,
and rapid deployment across the entire
organization.

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 DER Management System - DERMS
ETAP enables engineers and operators to manage and mitigate the effects of renewable
power sources under steady-state and dynamic conditions. Integrated with ETAP ADMS, the
ETAP DERMS solution accounts for renewable energy resources along with energy storage
to maximize the existing grid’s distribution capability, while reducing costs to the customer.

✓ Analyze & operate green energy power systems ✓ Optimal charging, discharging and arbitrage
✓ Optimize DER performance ✓ Monitor DERs and identify operational margins
✓ Solar & microgrid capacity planning ✓ Dispatch customer demand response devices
✓ Ensure regulatory compliance ✓ Integrated with ETAP ADMS

Economic Optimization Energy Accounting & Settlement

Dispatch DERs based on cost optimization goals Energy accounting provides energy usage analysis
for grid services and energy arbitrage. and cost allocation for individual units, areas,
and the entire system. Track and create energy
DER Controls billing reports based on user-definable energy cost
functions and energy tariffs.
Enhance Situational Awareness under normal and
abnormal switching conditions by deploying and
interacting with participating DERs to increase
Aggregate & Analyze Prosumers
reliability. Evaluate and implement energy-reducing strategies,
such as price signal responses, transaction
settlements, and demand optimization.

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iDLS - Intelligent Distribution Load Shedding
TM

iDLS offers an intelligent model-driven load curtailment system with optimization

techniques to shed the minimum required distribution feeder loads based on reliability
indices, quality of supply, and availability of distributed generation.

Optimized Reliability Rotating Outages

iDLS utilizes each distribution customer’s historical iDLS can be configured to automatically or
information, priority, and restoration time to manually initiate a controlled load curtailment
determine the optimal combination of loads to based on load priority blocks, classification, time-
shed. Load shedding combinations are selected of-day, peak demand, and more.
such that customer satisfaction indices and
reliability are not significantly impacted. Customer
priority, number of previous outage incidents, and
restoration times are considered in the optimal
selection of feeders or loads to be curtailed.

Protection
Load Curtailment Logging & Auditing iDLS evaluates and determines the capacity of all
system components and operating constraints in
All load shedding events, reasons for curtailment,
order to protect the network under steady-state
protection alarms, devices and customers
and dynamic conditions.
affected are logged. Contingency and its effects
are available in a chronological table, allowing • Transformer overloads
planners and operators to assess and minimize • Under voltage
load curtailment requirements to improve overall • Under frequency
network reliability, quality of services, and security. • System overload
• Power transfer limits

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 iSUB - Substation Automation System
TM

iSub intelligent Substation Automation System (SAS) provides protection, control,

automation, monitoring, and communication applications as part of a comprehensive
substation solution.

Switching Management
Switching Management allows the dispatcher to build, simulate, and verify a complete switching program
using a fully-graphical user interface. The approved switching programs can be executed 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
Substation Automation shifting, load-start inhibition, and shedding of
Substation Automation utilizes intelligent analysis non-critical loads to reduce energy cost.
processes to dynamically manage, monitored data
for substation levels and central system evaluation.

Automatic voltage control Load curtailment

Synchronism Capacitor control algorithm
Tap position monitoring Substation maintenance mode
Load & bus transfer Fault detection

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eOTS - Operator Training Simulator
TM

Improve and augment operator training through real-world experiential learning and
evaluate contingency response to steady-state and dynamic scenarios for applications
such as DMS, EMS, GMS, load shedding, and load demand controls.

✓ Accelerate operator & engineering training ✓ Avoid inadvertent outages caused by human
error
✓ Virtual test of operator & controller actions
✓ Improve & develop operator competency
✓ Simulate & track the sequence-of-operation
✓ Trainer-to-Trainees learning environment
✓ Ad hoc & pre-defined evaluation scenarios
✓ Software-in-the-Loop system simulation

Operator Training Simulator

A model-driven power system training simulator mimics the sequence-of-operation scenarios using
real-time data to perform and validate actions such as DER dispatch, load shedding, configuration
switching, plant startup, and more.

Preventive Simulation
Preventive analytical modules provide automated alarms and warnings to the operator on possible events
such as generator outages, contingencies, and suggest remedial actions.

etap SIL™ – Software-in-the-Loop technologies for dispatcher training & system commissioning

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at Your Fingertips
TM

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