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Continue with the current browserPower supply reliability is more important than ever before – on all voltage levels, from the point of grid infeed all the way to the consumer.
Discover solutions from Siemens that help establish highly resilient power systems that immediately recover from disruptive events and adapt to impending threats and dangers.
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Identifying risks, increasing reliability
The influencing factors on modern power systems are numerous, and they are constantly changing. That’s why it takes an integrated, intelligent, and comprehensive concept to protect today’s power systems. Such a concept needs to cover the entire power system on all voltage levels and to anticipate all possible risks. A main constituent of power system protection is to implement resilience. A more resilient power infrastructure has a higher ability to withstand disruptive events, reduce their impact, and speed up recovery.
In the wake of digitalization, power systems have evolved from relatively self-contained, straightforward networks to complex intelligent infrastructures that are more prone to incidents of natural and human origin across multiple levels.
Addressing the potential risks associated with this inescapable process as well as other developments, such as climate change, the rise of distributed power systems, and a sharp increase in cases of vandalism in some countries, necessitate that resilience be an integral part of all future power system operation, optimization, and planning.
The resilience of a power infrastructure stands or falls with the weakest system component. It is crucial to identify all possible disruptive factors, anticipate incidents, and proactively secure the entire system. That’s why Siemens has developed a unique, holistic, three-dimensional approach.
Why action is needed
Disruptive events in power supply infrastructures can never be completely ruled out. But a resilient power system is able to anticipate and absorb potentially disruptive events, adapt to them, and rapidly recover from an incident.
Power system operators have always taken extensive measures against system faults and system failures. But there are new threats that need to be addressed.
The vulnerability to cyber threats, for instance, is increasing in the wake of digitalization and with the growing number of interconnections. Extreme weather conditions due to climate change have quadrupled over the past 30 years and have become a severe threat to power systems in several parts of the world. The problem of vandalism is becoming steadily worse. The number of power outages caused by vandalism has reached alarming levels in several supply areas. In view of such new challenges, resilience is increasingly required to ensure a reliable supply of power.
It’s a law of nature that you can’t avoid failures. The trick is to incorporate enough fault tolerance into a system and to make it learn from past failures to become even more stable. That’s the essence of resilience.
The many facets of resilience
The numerous aspects of power infrastructure resilience have one thing in common: They are based on the ability to anticipate, react, adapt, and recover quickly thanks to fast, targeted, and effective action on the physical as well as on the digital and the systemic side.
The answer to this question is given in our animated infographics that explains the importance of a resilient power infrastructure.
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Project references
Power infrastructure resilience embraces many different physical, digital, and systemic aspects. Discover how our solutions work and interact in practice in some of our top project references.
Low carbon Microgrid in Indian Native reservation
Independent energy supply
No risks of blackout or power interruptions
Fast control and protection functions
Blackstart capability for rapid grid setup after failures
Increased supply reliability and stabilization of European grids.
Smart grid integration with special software from Siemens
Real-time information
Quick decisions on load relief become possible
Trigeneration system including a 40-MW steam turbine
Reliable operation maintained during superstorm Sandy
Upfront investment paid back after just five years
New pole replacing an old one built in the middle of an operating system
Earthquake-resistant valve hall that can rapidly return to full operation after a strong earthquake
Update of existing control and protection system, SCC PLUS system added
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Power infrastructure resilience starts with the appropriate mindset, and there’s no off-the-shelf solution. But the Siemens experts will be glad to analyze your individual starting point, your objectives, and possible ways to a more resilient power system.
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