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Equinox » Products » CROW » ISO/RTO and Reliability Coordinator |
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The CROW Outage Coordination
solution for the ISO/RTO and Reliability Coordinator is a tool
designed to strengthen internal business processes and improve
communications that contribute to securing the reliability of
the electric grid.
CROW significantly augments the ability of an ISO/RTO or
Reliability Coordinator to effectively support the activity
of its Control Areas.
Three important areas where CROW enhances operations and
reliability processes are as follows: Aggregation of Outage Data,
Notifications, and Auditability.
1. Aggregation of Outage Data:
Automating the process of aggregating outage data yields benefits
to the ISO/RTO or Reliablity Coordinator and its Control Areas
by—
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enabling and simplifying the complete and timely reporting
of scheduled outage information,
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ensuring that critical outages are reported, identified,
and restudied as schedules change, and
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enabling the ultimate goal of automatically
uploading outage data to advanced study tools thus reducing the time
it takes to run studies.
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Automating the aggregation of outage
data with the right tool will allow your reliability coordination team
to focus on running studies more accurately, more frequently, and
closer to real-time.
2. Notifications:
Automated notifications enhance the speed and completeness of
communications in the following ways:
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Critical path outages are automatically
flagged for reliability coordinators and engineers (via email
notification or a highlight on the reliability coordinator
display).
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All potentially affected utilities
can be selectively and automatically notified by email, pager,
or SMS Text Messaging.
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Management, marketers, key account
execs, and major customers can be selectively and
automatically notified.
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3. Auditability:
Auditability ensures that information captured by reliability
coordinators is organized and standardized so that it can be
queried readily to generate reports on outage revision
history, the actions that were taken, and the studies
that were run.
Having a business process and application that is built upon
the foundations of security and auditability helps ensure
regulatory compliance and reduces the painful logistics
and cost of responding to regulatory inquiries.
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To find out more about how CROW technology can
strengthen your business processes and enhance your ability
to secure grid reliability, please click here to contact us.
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