Software Enables Intelligent Electrical Substation Design

Bentley Substation v8i includes set of engineering and design tools, with common GUI, and integrates with ProjectWise system for engineering content management and team collaboration. Combining electrical design with 3D modeling, it features database with more than 2 million electrical parts. Modeling is integrated with terrain models and visualization tools to simplify communication of design intent to stakeholders. It is intraoperable with various other software design tools.

EXTON, Pa., July 28 / / - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the release of Bentley Substation V8i, the first intra-operable software product for intelligent electrical and physical substation design. This highly productive software speeds project delivery and reduces costs by providing:

- Intelligent substation information models that allow distributed users
to work efficiently with federated data in a single environment;

- The most complete set of substation engineering and design tools
available with a common graphical user interface, making the software
easy to learn;

- Integration with the ProjectWise system for connecting people and
information to facilitate engineering content management and team
collaboration in support of streamlined workflows.

Bentley Substation delivers intelligent infrastructure for substations by supporting all of the key components and requirements of an electric substation - from physical layout to electrical schematics for protection and control, grounding grid, lightning protection, panel layout, and control house and lighting design. In addition, it intra-operates with Bentley's broad portfolio of software offerings, including civil engineering for site design and selection and architectural design for building modeling.

Bentley COO Malcolm Walter said, "Our new substation product underscores Bentley's commitment to helping our users engineer the 21st century utility. Together with our solutions for power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure, Bentley Substation V8i completes our end-to-end solution for today's utilities, and uniquely provides the breadth and depth of software to design, build, and operate the intelligent infrastructure that's the foundation of the smart grid - and ultimately supports the creation of intelligent cities."