PRINCIPLES OF THE OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT FOR A HYDROPOWER PLANT DISPATCHING

An important amount of the Electric Power Generation (EPG) company costs is given by the maintenance costs. The implementation of a SCADA system in the hydropower plant enables the improvement of the maintenance, management and general control strategy.Based on the new and large possibilities of the SCADA-systems, the actual paper presents (in accord to the legal frame) the fundaments for the implementation of the Operational Management System (OMS) for the Hydro-electric Power Plant belonging to the general system of the Hydraulic Power Plant.The target of the OMS is to create a general Hydro-power Plant Dispatcher (HPD) for the whole chain of Hydroelectric Stations from the Somes-river (Ordean, 2005). The local Information Net of each Power Station (already in operation) is connected to the HPD in order to supervise the station operation, but also to control, directly through HPD, the equipment of the Hydro-electric station.