An integrated set of disciplines that support the structural transformation of legacy Power SystemsA highly complex cyber-physical and transactional System tha... Click for more, enabling them reliably and efficiently meet emerging future CustomerThe human individuals, families, organisations, institutions... Click for more & Societal Objectives including but not limited to deep decarbonisation goals. At its most fundamental, PSA reflects the application of Systems EngineeringAn established engineering discipline applied in numerous se... Click for more to the transformation of Power System.
By recognising each Power System as an ultra-complex Network of StructuresA modern Power System consists of an ultra-complex web of se... Click for more, the PSA methodologies are uniquely designed to provide:
a) Whole-system insight over 5, 10 and 20-year time horizons, enabling the interrogation and mapping of current, emerging and future Power System priorities and objectives including the Roles & Responsibilities, Operational CoordinationOperational Coordination is the systematic operational align... Click for more and Co-optimisationCo-optimisation is a structured approach to ensuring that En... Click for more across all vertical Tiers/LayersThe vertical layers of a GW-scale Power System including the... Click for more;
b) Evidence-based tools to identify, analyse and shortlist key transformational options through the combination of Systems ArchitectureA formal element of Systems Engineering, which enables objec... Click for more, Network TheoryA branch of mathematics and computer science that studies th... Click for more, Control TheoryA branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the ... Click for more, Systems ScienceA multi-domain, integrative discipline that brings together ... Click for more and Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE)An approach to Systems Engineering that uses software-based ... Click for more supported by Strategic Foresight, Behavioural Science and EnergyElectrical Energy is the product of electrical Power and tim... Click for more Economics; and;
c) Future-resilient decision making by surfacing hidden structural constraints early which may otherwise propagate a range of Architectural IssuesFollowing are seven important structural issues that System ... Click for more including computational constraints, latency cascading and cyber-security vulnerabilities, providing greater assurance that new investments will be ScalableAn architectural characteristic that takes the future scale ... Click for more and ExtensibleAn architectural characteristic that takes the future extens... Click for more under all plausible futures.
As such, PSA provides a formalised toolkit for decomposing and ‘taming’ the massive ComplexityA System is complex if it has many interrelated, interconnec... Click for more inherent to a transforming Power System. The PSA toolkit empowers more informed, multi-stakeholder participation by making critical content explicit and tractable that would otherwise remain opaque and intractable. It is designed to enhance decision quality, timeliness and traceability to support full benefits-realisation and avoid the propagation of unintended consequences.
Refer also to Layered Future ArchitectureA vision of the future Power System that is informed by the ... Click for more, Centralised Future ArchitectureA vision of a future Power System that is a logical extensio... Click for more and Digital ArchitectureInfrastructure and Subsystems that provide for all informati... Click for more ≠ Power System Architecture.