Integrated acquisition and application of meteorological data in power system operation and control

This paper presents a new system for acquisition and use of meteorological data in power system operation and control functions (called SIMES) now available at the ENEL National Control Center. This new system provides on-line acquisition of various meteorological data sources (earth stations, satellite and lightning monitoring system) and relevant results of meteorological forecasting models, and makes available to power system control operators some functions such as visualization of meteorological data, forecasts of temperatures and rainfalls, detection of adverse weather conditions for network components such as HV lines. Data acquisition and processing functions as well as hardware/software structure and integration with the SCADA/EMS system are described. Application to power system operation and control functions are presented.