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Bentley Substation V8i

Overview

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Unprecedented Challenges Compel


Adaptation
Aging
Infrastructure
Cost Reduction

Population
Growth

Infrastructure

Operational
Ineffectiveness

The 21ST Century Utility

Smart Grid
Initiatives

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Distributed,
Renewable
Power
Generation

Microgeneration
and
Storage

Carbon
Emissions

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Bentley Innovation Areas for the 21st


Century Utility
Power plant
engineering and
design

Intelligent
substations

Engineering
content
management
and team
collaboration

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Intelligent
infrastructure for reengineering the 21st
century utility
Transmission and
distribution
design and
management

Nuclear
configuration
management

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Intelligent Infrastructure Requires an


Intelligent Information Model

Faster time to
market
Optimized project
delivery
Better performing
infrastructure across
the lifecycle

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Innovation, Flexibility and Intelligent New


Ways of Working Are Required
Multi-disciplinary Workflows with Data Interoperability

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Utilities Leveraging Bentley Technology


Electric & Gas Utilities /
Multi-Utilities

Power Generation

American Electric Power


Bonneville Power Administration
CEZ, a.s.
Dominion Virginia Power
E.ON AG
EDF Pole Industrie
Electrabel S.A.
EnBW AG
ESKOM HOLDINGS
Exelon Corporation
FirstEnergy Corporation
Florida Power & Light Co
Iberdrola S.A
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co Ltd
Progress Energy Service Company LLC
RWE AG
Southern Company Services Inc
Taiwan Power Company
Tokyo Electric Power
Vattenfall Europe AG

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Ameren
American Electric Power
Con Edison
Constellation Energy
Consumers Energy
CPS Energy
DTE Energy
Duke Energy
E.ON AG
Electrabel S.A.
ENERGEX
Eskom Holdings
Huntsville Utilities
Iberdrola S.A
RWE AG
Snam Rete Gas SpA
TXU Energy
Vattenfall Europe AG
Western Power
Xcel Energy

Water and Wastewater

American Water
Anne Arundel County
Los Angeles County Sanitation District
East Bay Municipal Utility District
Empresas Publicas de Medelln ESP
Stadtentwsserung Stuttgart
Melbourne Water Corporation
Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California
MidCoast Water
National Water Commission (Jamaica)
Power and Water Corporation
(Australia)
Sabesp
Saur
Societe Wallonne Des Eaux
Thames Water
United Utilities
United Water
Veolia Water
Watercare Services Limited
Waternet

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What Are Substations? Where Are


They in the Grid?
Transmission
Substation

High Voltage
Transmission Lines
Switchyard

Power
Plant

Transmission
Lines

Distribution
Substation

Distribution
Network
End User

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Substation Business Drivers


Smart grid

Alternative
energy sources
Wind
Wave
Solar

Aging
substation infrastructure

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Strong demand in
developing economies

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Why Are Engineering Efficiency


and Intelligent Design Important?
10% of a typical utilitys revenues is spent
on designing, building, operating and
maintaining substations
Even small changes in engineering
efficiency can lead to substantial savings

PECO $45M

SP PowerSystems $16M

New electric transmission substation (U.S., 2009)

Substation re-build ( Scotland, 2009-12)

Kuwait $400M

Powerlink A$15M

Qatar 500M

Three new substations

Substation upgrade (Australia, 2009)

14 gas-insulated substations

Consolidated Edison Co. $347M


New substation installations and equipment (New York, 2009)

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Plain CAD for Substation Design

No connection between design elements


Physical Design

BOM and
Other Reports

Electrical Design

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Plain CAD for Substation Design


Designers forced to do extra work:
Tedious CAD drawing steps
Manual cross referencing of
schematic symbols
Manual take-off of cable schedules
Manual take-off of bills of material
Manual take-off of point-to-point
wire lists
Manual error checking
and correction
Page management
Data re-entry

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Lack of 3D Substation Model


2D views of the physical design are
difficult to draft
2D views are difficult to
interpret
Interference errors
Difficulty in
getting approvals

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Other Issues Beyond the


Designers CAD Environment

= Poor use of valuable resources


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What Is Needed?
A design tool specifically for substations:
Integrates physical design with
electrical design
Uses intelligent information
models
Facilitates collaborative
workflows
Provides 100% accurate, complete
documentation automatically

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Introducing Bentley Substation V8i


Intelligent Substation Design
Integrated electrical and physical design
for intelligent substation infrastructure
Featuring:
Intelligent information models
3D physical design
Electrical design
Protection and control schematics
Automatic report generation
Grounding grid design
Lightning protection
Panel layouts
Integration with enterprise engineering
content management system
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The Substation Database Enables an


Intelligent Substation Model
Design
and
Estimate

Approvals
Materials
Fabrication

Site Work

Planning

2D
Electrical
Design

Substation
Database

3D
Physical
Design

As-Built
Updates

Upgrades
O&M

Greenfield

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Construction

Energize

Brownfield

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Content Management Through the


ProjectWise Collaboration System
Control and track changes
Coordinate work at multiple locations
Optimize project workflow

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Results
Fewer design hours and associated cost

Projected Savings

Design Time Save 30%


BOM Prep Time Save 60%

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Results
Fewer design hours and associated cost
Quicker design cycles getting projects
online sooner

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Results
Fewer design hours and associated cost
Quicker design cycles getting projects
online sooner
Faster approvals

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Results
Fewer design hours and associated cost
Quicker design cycles getting projects
online sooner
Faster approvals
Fewer change orders

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Summary

Bentley Substation V8i is:


Intelligent substation design
Software specifically for substation design
Intelligent information models
Integrated physical design, electrical design,
report generation
Engineering content management through
ProjectWise

A productivity tool that can cut substation design


time by at least 30%
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