Concepts For SCADA systems planning in a changing competitive environment

The electric sector liberalization is creating structural and technological changes in the utilities, pushing the classical SCADA models and other utility systems to an evolving process. There are new needs to be provided, namely data exchange between companies and between different sectors of the same company, remote maintenance, remote equipment configuration, telemetering, Demand Side Management, Distributed Generation, House/Building Automation, etc., which will create new challenges to utility SCADA and communication engineers.