The special training team of the System Operator won the qualifying stage of the "CASE-IN" championship

The qualifying stage was held at the Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) in Novocherkassk, the flagship university of the Unified Energy System System Operator JSC. Student League XII The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The entire podium of the intellectual competitions was occupied by teams of students studying under special programs of the System Operator.  

The theme of the 2024 Championship is "Lean Manufacturing", the essence of which is to reduce production costs, increase output without increasing the volume of work.

Lean manufacturing is closely related to the introduction of artificial intelligence. Therefore, the topic of the case of the qualifying stage of the Student League in the field of "Electric Power Industry" was chosen "Application of artificial intelligence technologies in the electric power industry". As part of the qualifying stage of the Championship, the teams had to analyze the technologies used by the System Operator and electric power industry entities, propose innovative technological solutions for managing an energy system, power plant or substation using artificial intelligence, and assess the likely technical and economic impact of the proposed innovative technologies for lean manufacturing.

The 14 teams that took part in the qualifying stage reacted creatively to the task and offered to use various technologies, ranging from the introduction of artificial intelligence into the Sakhalin Peninsula's energy system to combat ice and ending with predicting accidents through data collection and neural computing.

The decisions of the participants of the Championship were evaluated by an expert commission headed by the Chief specialist of the Electrical Modes Service of the Branch of the Unified Energy System System Operator JSC Rostov RDU Dmitry Chub. The experts also included a leading specialist of the Personnel Management Service of the Branch of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" ODU Yuga Galina Chivyaga.

According to the results of the calculation of the points awarded by experts during the case defense, the winner of the qualifying stage in the field of "Electric Power Industry" was the team "The Power of Youth" consisting of 1st year students of the master's degree of YURSPU (NPI) Kirill Tislenko, Artem Chuganov, Artem Musaelyan and Daniil Ryzhkov. The guys competently analyzed the operational area of the North Caucasian RDU and proposed several solutions for the implementation of artificial intelligence, including a smart self–learning assistant dispatcher who gives the dispatcher tips and provides up-to-date information during emergency modes of operation of the power system.

In addition, the team presented to the expert commission a solution to modernize the dynamic properties monitoring tool of the electric power system (SMPS) for accelerated detection and elimination of asynchronous modes, as well as the use of artificial intelligence to predict parameters affecting ice formation, followed by recommendations on the order and methods of melting ice on problematic network elements.

"It is noteworthy that according to the results of the qualifying stage of the Student League, all three prizes were taken by teams whose participants study in the specialized training groups of the USPU (NPI) under the System Operator program. The winner of the stage was the team "The Power of Youth", the second and third places went to the teams "Good Chokopai" and "Explanatory Brigade".", – said the chairman of the expert commission Dmitry Chub.

The Power of Youth team will take part in the next stage of the championship. The final will be held on May 28-30, 2024 with the participation of student teams from Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

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