Primary Uses

1. Monitoring
2. Restoration
3. Planning

Monitoring

• Easily interfaces with your current SCADA/EMS

• Advanced load flow algorithms provide accurate state estimation of the physical grid, even when data is absent from large parts of your network

• Manages grid resources more efficiently especially near voltage collapse

• Familiar graphics and user interface make operator training fast and easy

Good enough is no longer good enough.

There was a time when an operator's intuition and experience could make up for shortfalls in a SCADA/EMS system's ability to estimate current electrical states. But with more and more demands being placed on existing infrastructures, intuition is now telling experienced operators that there must be a better way.

Real-time vs. real-time, all the time.

Even when the system approaches voltage collapse, AGORA uses real-time data it receives from your network to provide you with reliable solutions when you need them— in physical grid real-time, under all conditions.

Restoration

• Your customers receive more responsive restoration services than ever before

• AGORA understands the relationship between your system and neighboring systems, making restoration safer and easier

• Real-time understanding of current network states means you can act more quickly and with more confidence

• Advanced load flow algorithms provide accurate state estimation of the physical grid, even during disturbances

Restoration plans that change as quickly as the situation.

Since AGORA's load flow and state estimation algorithms perform their tasks in real time, the system adapts dynamically as circumstances change and readjusts restoration plans accordingly. This means, even at the most critical moments, you have accurate information at your fingertips, so you can act with confidence as you bring components of the grid gradually back into service. In addition to AGORA's optimal restoration sequence, pre-engineered and operator plans generated “on-the-fly” can also be reviewed, edited and followed in real time.

Planning

• Accurately evaluates risk issues

• Prioritizes grid investments rationally

• Evaluates and verifies existing plans

• Scenarios are easily modifiable to represent a wide range of changes in load, equipment failure, maintenance requests, large-scale disturbances, modifications in neighboring systems, etc.

• Uses real-time load flow data to establish a base case for any scenario

Accurate planning can only come from an accurate system.

AGORA's simulation environment has the ability to glean patterns and trends from massive amounts of data, making it the perfect planning tool. Its graphical interface offers field and SCADA emulation and supports any load, mode of generation and topology. In fact, AGORA is such a robust and accurate tool, both operators and planners will want to work with the same system to unify their approach to forecasting growth, scheduling maintenance and restoration planning.

AGORA saves time and money.

AGORA's innovative load flow dramatically reduces engineering time through the automatic generation of PV/QV curves and contingency analysis. AGORA can also optimize financial resources through the prioritization of infrastructure investments.