Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
Gathen Garcia, Manager Technical Systems Public Service Company of New Mexico
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
Recent Events •August 14, 2003 ‘collapse’ of Northeast Electric Grid •Affected 50 million people •Three major contributing factors •Inadequate Transmission Capacity •Insufficient real time monitoring •Inadequate system maintenance
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
Public Service Company of New Mexico’s System: • New Mexico’s largest Investor Owned Utility • Provides both Electric and Gas Service • 370,000+ electric customers • Ranked #1 in reliability by EEI in 2002 • Approximately 2,800 miles of Electric Transmission
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
•Corporate Philosophy: • Implement Automation to Help Maximize Return on Assets •Utilize existing applications where they make sense •Develop custom applications when necessary •Leverage GIS technology whenever possible
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
•Examples of Utilizing Automation at Public Service Company of New Mexico • eTAMIS – a GIS System combined with Automated Inspection and Maintenance capabilities for Electric Transmission facilities • gTAMIS - a GIS System combined with Automated Inspection and Maintenance capabilities for Gas Transmission facilities • ALPS – Automated Line Patrol System developed for Electric Distribution facilities • BC_LAMPS – Street Light inventory, billing, inspection and maintenance program
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
A closer look at the automated management of the Overhead Transmission assets…
Application built on: •ESRI ArcGIS 8.3 Suite •Microsoft SqlServer functionality
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets On Inspection and Maintenance the User is first prompted to set where image files are stored. Local Drive would be selected in the field.
The User is then queried to login into Inspection and Mainenance
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets The Inspection and Maintenance Navigation Form is the initial screen the Inspector sees. If there are restrictions of existing conditions the user sees this on each screen.
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
Digital Photo of Condition Digital Photo of Structure
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
results from initial field inspections
•Over 15000 Structures in our System •Over 2500 Unique Maintenance Items Found on over 1800 Structures (12% of System Total)
PNM’s eTAMIS GIS System
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Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
Summary •PNM has not received a rate increase since 1984 – actual rates have decreased approximately 5% • Transmission crew compliment consists of 8 field people and 1 supervisor •TAMIS gives PNM the ability to geographically show problems and work performed •Allows efficient planning and scheduling of activities associated with Inspection and Maintenance •Increase efficiencies of overall corporate Asset Management
Efficient Management of Electric Transmission Assets
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