Success Stories

Telecontrol Centres
Power plants, Hydro, Wind, FV
Transmission and Distribution Networks

E.ON Italia Telecontrol Centre

Supervision and remote control of thermal power

stations, hydroelectric and wind power plants of
E.ON Italia.
19 hydro, 11 mini-hydro, 5 thermal , 4 wind
power plant, reaching a total number of 75
power units managed by the EMS system
Remote management and regulation of the
plants based on production schedules provided
by GSE (Gestore dei Servizi Elettrici).

E.ON Telecontrol Centre

HMI and Video Wall
SCADA
EMS
Historian
Disaster recovery

I/O Data set

10000 Digital Input

2500 Digital Output

2500 Analog Input

4000 Analog Output.

ENI GAS & POWER

Telecontrol centre

Monitoring and remote control of the gas pipeline that connects Feriana (boundary
with Algeria) to Capo Bon (start point of TRANSMEDs Mediterranean part) and
connected pumping stations.
s.d.i. supply includes control room at centre, 3 DCS, 5 gateway RTU to interface DCS
in the pumping stations, 37 pipeline RTU

ENI GAS & POWER

TRANSMED Telecontrol Centre
HMI and Video Wall
SCADA
Historian
Engineering Workstation
Disaster recovery
Remote Web HMI
42 iSC RTUs (s.d.i.)

I/O Data Set

6384 Digital Input

1024 Digital Output

1200 Analog Input

STOGIT Gas Storage

Telecontrol Centre
Monitoring and remote control of the 8 storage
plants managed by STOGIT. In each site there are
a compression plant and a treatment plant.
Primary and disaster recovery centers. In each
center the user stations can take control of the
remote-controlled sites.
8 Front End devices supplied by s.d.i. interface
DCS in the plants via OPC and MODBUS standard
and/or third part protocols.

STOGIT Telecontrol Centre

STOGIT stores natural gas into sites formerly dedicated

to production.
The system coordinates and integrates each site storage
capacity into the overall storage system.
At each time the overall storage control system selects
which plant has to be involved as storage or supply in
order to ensure adequate gas level basing on
programmed schedule.

STOGIT Telecontrol Centre

Disaster Recovery Center of Sergnano

System platform is equipped with a videowall to

share the plant status.
The dynamic process database is centralized in
the SCADA systems (each one in redundant with
hot-backup configuration) and historical data are
stored in the storage station that supports an
Oracle Server (also in redundant configuration).
Communication with remote storage facilities (via
FEP) is based on IEC 60870-5-104 standard.

STOGIT Telecontrol Centre

HMI Multi Monitor User Interface (16 monitor)

Redundant SCADA
Historian Oracle Based
Disaster Recovery
Front End Based Architecture (8 different Front End)

I/O Data set

25000 Digital Input

10000 Digital Output

10000 Analog Input

3000 Analog Output.

A2A Hydro Power Telecontrol Centre

Monitoring and remote control of the 7 hydro
power plants in Valtellina: Grosio, Grosotto,
Lovero, Stazzona, Premadio,Braulio, S.Giacomo
for a total installed power of 772 MW.
Integrated SOE (Sequence of Events) of all plants.
Control of energy transmission and load
partitioning.

A2A Hydro Telecontrol Centre

Control Centre in Grosio and remote production
planning and management of energy flow from
Milan Offices.
I/O Servers for the management over dedicated
telecontrol lines using proprietary protocols over
power lines.
I/O Server for standard IEC 60870-5-101serial
protocol over dedicated lines.

A2A Telecontrol Centre

HMI Distributed User Interface

Remote planning station in Milan
Redundant SCADA
Historian Oracle Based
Multiple different protocols I/O Servers

I/O Data set

10000 Digital Input

2048 Digital Output

1200 Analog Input

256 Analog Output.

TERNA HV Substation Automation and

Telecontrol Gateway (SAS Station Computer)
High Voltage Substation Automation for several
(22 until now) TERNA substations in Italy.
The system has been one of the first complete
application of the IEC61850 protocol and system
configuration standard.
The IEC standard is used in LAN communication,
connecting to SCADA the Bay Control Unit (BCU) e
Bay Monitoring Unit (BMU) and Bay Protection
Unit (BPU).
The gateway function provides the connection to
remote TERNA telecontrol centers; the protocol
used is IEC 61870-5-104.
Using the gateway function the station can be
completely controlled from the TERNA CTI
(Telecontrol Centre).

TERNA SAS Station

Computer
Local HMI and Engineering Workstation
SCADA
Operating Sequences Automation
Client IEC 61850
SNMP LAN and Servers diagnostics
Telecontrol Gateway IEC 60870-5-104
SOE Lists and Perturbance Recording

I/O Data Set depending on number of stations BAY

Wind Farms and FV Power

GAVAZZI IMPIANTI

RTU and SCADA for the wind farm and

the power station

Parco Eolico La Miniera (Montecatini

val di Cecina)

GAVAZZI IMPIANTI

RTU and SCADA gateways for 10

fotovoltaic power plants and1 power
stations

TERNA remotely controlled plants in

northern part of Italy

ENEL GREEN POWER

RTU and SCADA gateway for 4 wind

and 15 fotovoltaic power plants

Italy and Romania

Wind Farm Montecatini Val di Cecina

Wind Farm Montecatini Val di Cecina

Local HMI and Engineering Workstation
3 Web Enabled Remote HMI
Redundant SCADA
1 RTU STAR Station for HV/MV substation Control
Remote Alarming (Vocal Alarm Messaging)

I/O Data set

832 Digital Input

62 Digital Output

232 Analog Input

24 Analog Output.