Monitor, Control, and Feel Confident with Structure's Generation Management Services

With power to sell and load to serve, energy traders, regulated utilities, municipalities and co-ops must have a complete picture of their generation portfolios.  Having accurate, valid and meaningful measurement of your generation resources and load requirements are a must, as is the ability to instantaneously dispatch your resources in response to market and reliability signals.

Structure Group has worked with numerous energy trading organizations and several regulated utilities to assess, procure and implement their Generation Management System (GMS) and SCADA Systems.

Our Generation Management Systems experts can help you:

• Assess your legacy Generation Management and SCADA systems
• Identify and categorize your legacy SCADA hardware and communication links
• Recommend the best of breed GMS/SCADA system to meet your requirements
• Help you understand wholesale power market, NERC and regional reliability regulatory requirements

Specific areas that Structure Group’s Generation Management services can help you include:

Program Design
We can help you vision your to-be GMS, as well as its role in your overall IT systems roadmap.

Marketplace Intelligence
We bring keen insight into current market trends and competing vendor strengths/weaknesses.

• Assist in the interpretation of wholesale power market requirements of generation owners/operators and scheduling coordinators.
• Provide insight into NERC and regional reliability requirements, including cyber security concerns that are part of NERC CIP standards.

Project Management and Project Engineering
Including resources to support all GMS implementation projects (design, requirements, configuration, build, testing, training, cutover, support).

• Configuration of SCADA hardware and software, including Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) communications, ICCP, and OPC.
• Setup of Automatic Generation Control and Economic Dispatch applications, including modeling of generation resources.
• Development of GMS SCADA point databases, custom displays, real-time calculations, and alarms.
• Design, build and setup of custom interfaces to other systems, including power market interfaces, bridges to Bidding, Scheduling and Settlements systems, as well as Data Historians.