Truly empowering. Distribution Automation for today and tomorrow.

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1 Truly empowering. Distribution Automation for today and tomorrow. Smart Grid Constant Energy in a World of Constant Change. Answers for infrastructure and cities.

2 To deal with future requirements, you need a partner you can rely on. Decentralized power generation, fluctuating peak times, an increasing number of consumers who are also producers (prosumers), an aging infrastructure, and constantly changing political frameworks power distribution grids are subject to demanding challenges. And there is no end in sight; on the contrary, they will increase further. We want to make your company strong for the future. Our Smart Grid, with its special Distribution Automation Solutions, empowers you to be well prepared. Throughout the industry, it is the most comprehensive solution from a single source scalable and perfectly compatible with other systems. Adding to that our long-standing experience, our competence, as well as our extensive portfolio, we are the ideal partner for you in that field of business. We are providing tailor-made, individual solutions for three areas: field devices, communication and automation, and grid IT. Our concept is so flexible that we can offer precisely the right answer to the specific requirements you have in your distribution power network. Working on this together, we can turn your challenges into real opportunities, which will make your business future ready and successful.

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4 Make the most of your grid. In public perception, electricity is being taken for granted more than almost anything else. It is the elixir of life for our urban society. Accordingly, you as a distribution grid operator bear a lot of responsibility. After all, it is you who not only has to make sure that power reaches the places where it is needed, but also in the right quality and quantity. For it is true that even minor disturbances can have serious consequences. This makes it all the more important that distribution grids can respond quickly to any extraordinary events that may threaten to affect electricity supply. Thanks to intelligent and individual optimization, with the help of Distribution Automation Solutions, you can offer your clients more security by significantly increasing the stability and reliability in your power networks. Fault detection and self-healing solutions quickly localize and de-energize downed wires, they are able to report damages autonomously and to do necessary repairs themselves. This is how you can guarantee your customers to resupply as soon as possible. What is more, even if outages should occur, the automated outage management system makes sure that the error is detected and fixed immediately. Thus, power supply can be resumed without delays and outage times can be reduced substantially. In addition to that, you benefit from comprehensive condition monitoring to support asset management, due to the installed sensors as well as the central interconnection based on intelligent IT solutions. The continuous monitoring of facilities enables you to manage the change from cyclical

5 Fault Detection and Self-healing Solutions Outage Management Condition Monitoring to support Asset Management Loss Detection to condition-based maintenance smoothly. It also reduces outage times right from the beginning, thanks to the early detection and rapid fixing of any occurring problems. For efficient loss detection, current flows are being analyzed in all sections of the grid. Both technical and non-technical sources of loss are identified automatically. And last but not least, it does not matter at all which solutions you have been using in your grid so far. Because it is our understanding of smart that all your existing system modules can be effortlessly combined with Siemens technologies.

6 Coordinated Load Control and Balancing Power Quality Management Control of Distributed Generation Sources Make your grid future ready. Finding sustainable answers to the ongoing energy issues is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Its importance, especially for future generations, cannot be overestimated. Global energy demand is on the increase and has to be satisfied reliably. The percentage of volatile regenerative energies being fed into the grid will continue to grow as well. This leads to more and more fluctuations between generation and load that need to be compensated. All of this means that the stability of the circuit is and will be potentially endangered particularly in power distribution networks. However, there is a lasting and efficient solution at hand. With the intelligent extension possibilities of Distribution Automation Solutions, you can balance out peaks of energy production and consumption, and easily integrate the most diverse energy sources and information. The objective of coordinated load control and balancing is achieved by anticipating electricity demand and consumption, as well as by calculating the expected power feed-in from renewable energies. Distribution Automation gives your grid total control of distributed generation sources. Whenever there are generation and consumption peaks, these sources are automatically cut off or added.

7 The benefits are manifold and decisive. Well-engineered power quality management guarantees stable distribution networks as well as reliable energy delivery. Thus, you increase your efficiency, secure stability, make better economic use of regenerative energies and perfectly prepare your distribution grid for the future.

8 Let s start it now! Let us improve your grid together to meet existing and future requirements, with Distribution Automation Solutions under the roof of Smart Grid. Optimizing measures help you to fulfill today s requirements and to increase your grid s reliability through effective changes. Extending measures add new functionalities to your grid, making it fit also for future requirements. Which solutions are best for your grid? We would like to work out the answer to this question together with you matched to your specific possibilities and needs. Published by and copyright 2013 Siemens AG Infrastructure & Cities Sector Smart Grid Division Energy Automation Humboldtstr Nuremberg, Germany For more information, contact our Customer Support Center Phone: Fax: (Charges depending on provider) support.ic@siemens.com Order No. IC1000-G220-A196-X-4A00 Printed in Germany Dispo c4bs Nr. 692 AL=N ECCN=N DDBT/HAM All rights reserved. Trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of Siemens AG, its affiliates, or their respective owners. Subject to change without prior notice. The information in this document contains general descriptions of the technical options available, which may not apply in all cases. The required technical options should therefore be specified in the contract.