Questions on Electric Utility Network Foundation Solution

JürgenBiendara

Hello,

This is a question for the developers of the Electric Utility Network Foundation Solution.

We would like to try to migrate the Geometric Network Data of a TSO into the Electric Utility Network Foundation. When mapping the customer data to the Electric Data Model, many questions of understanding arise that we hope to clarify here.

1. Grounding wires run between the tops of the high-voltage towers/pylons. These can be divided into wires that contain an optical fiber and those without an optical fiber.

•             Is there a direct equivalent in the EUNF for grounding wires with and without optical fibers?
•             If not, would you suggest adding these asset types to the configuration?

2. Grounding wires with and without optical fibers also exist underground. Accordingly, the questions under 1. also apply to underground cables.

3. Is it correct that the EUNF does not yet include any communication assets (e.g. for mapping fiber optic communication cables) or are we missing something?

4. What is the function of the asset types "High/Medium/Low Voltage Service" in the feature class "ElectricLine"?

Thank you for your help, best regards,
Jürgen

JohnAlsup

There are many different names for the same equipment, sometimes the name differences are not just language, but tradition.  Grounding wires in Transmission are also called Static Wires or Shield Wires.  They are all the same thing.  That's why we support renaming asset groups and asset types via the D_Rename table during apply.  In this case, the wire you are referring to we have called the asset group for this High Voltage Static Wire found in the Electric Line class.   We also duplicated this in the structure line class as asset group Static Wire.  They are used basically the same way.  

As for communications, you can apply the Communications asset package on top of the Electric Foundation, just use the Single Cable configuration in communications.  The just add a few rules to allow the Static Wire to contain Strands and a few other rules.