Bahrain Electricity Water Authority signs $28.7M contract with GE Digital for grid software solutions

Feature
October 31, 2021 1:19 pm
Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority Signs US$28.7 Million Contract with GE Digital for Grid Software Solutions

GE Digital announced that the Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority signed a contract worth $28.7 Million for software and services to modernise the Kingdom of Bahrain’s electricity and water networks. A variety of GE Digital’s industry-leading Grid Software will be installed in a state-of-the-art control center that will digitise operations for increased efficiency and operations redundancy.

This remarkable end-to-end software solution spans the breadth of operations from the transmission to distribution across the company’s essential electricity and water services. Its implementation will be integral to the country’s economic vision and strategy for the future.

“We at the Electricity and Water Authority are keen to provide electricity and water services at the highest level of quality and reliability to ensure sustainable development in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and to become a leading model for providing electricity and water services,” said HE Shaikh Nawaf Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer of the Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority. “This project will facilitate our goals to optimise asset and network utilisation and minimise outages in the networks for the reliability of supply.”

“EWA’s solution is unique in the region and the industry and we are proud to be a part of it,” said Talal Eskandar, Vice President for GE Digital’s commercial operations in the Middle East region. “As the authority serves 430,000 electricity and 310,000 water customers, digital solutions will assist in optimising their customer service and asset management goals.”

Grid Software to be utilised in this solution include:

  • Distribution Management: GE Digital’s industry-leading Advanced Distribution Management Solutions- ADMS provide for the safe and secure management of the electric grid. The software provides EWA with next-generation control and optimisation capabilities that will help them with outage restoration and the overall performance of the grid.
  • Transmission Management: The Advanced Energy Management System- AEMS provides a better framework for the authority to optimise the energy and electric transmission in a more innovative way with improved efficiency by integrating multiple monitoring, control, and analytics systems into a modular solution.
  • Grid Resilience: AEMS Wide Area Management can monitor and locate system oscillations in real-time reducing the risk of unnecessary power disruptions and accelerate system restoration in case of an outage.
  • Water Transmission and Water Distribution Management: The GE Digital team will be integrating EWA’s existing geospatial asset management system with the distribution network to model and manage the water operation.

“GE Digital is happy to work with the Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority to help modernise their networks and increase resiliency with our solution,” said Jim Walsh, General Manager of GE Digital’s Grid Software business. “This is a good example of how our customers are being called on to transform their businesses to take advantage of digital capabilities that can help them to achieve their goals of increased grid capacity and reduced outages.”

 

Tags: