Hardware requirements

SIMATIC powerrate can be used in the PCS 7 or WinCC SCADA environments. For installation, the respective hardware requirements of the following products apply

• PCS 7
• STEP 7 and WinCC SCADA

Released CPUs - SIMATIC powerrate is released in the PCS 7 environment for

• S7-400 CPUs supported by PCS 7
• WinAC RTX 2010 SP1 and SP2

Released CPUs - SIMATIC powerrate is released in the WinCC SCADA environment for:

• S7-400
• S7-300

• SIMATIC S7 CPU 319-3 PN/DP V2.5 and higher
• SIMATIC S7 CPU 317-2 PN/DP V2.6 and higher
• SIMATIC S7 CPU 315-2 PN/DP V3.1 and higher

• SIMATIC ET 200S IM151-8 PN/DP CPU V3.2 and higher

Firmware version V3.x or later is recommended for S7-300 controllers.
CPUs with firmware version V3.2 or higher must be used for the implementation of PROFIenergy I-device blocks PR3_PE_IDEV and PRx_PE_RD.

• WinAC RTX 2010 SP1 and SP2

Software requirements

You can use SIMATIC powerrate in the PCS 7 or WinCC SCADA environments. For installation, the respective software requirements of the following products apply:

• PCS 7
• STEP 7 and WinCC SCADA

The library is released for the following PCS 7 versions

• SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.1
• SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.0 SP2
• SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.1 SP4

The library is released for the following WinCC version with the corresponding versions of STEP 7

• SIMATIC WinCC V7.3 Second Edition
• SIMATIC WinCC V7.2 Update 1 or higher (Update 2 is recommended)

For use with WinCC V7.3 or V7.2
, the following installations are required:

• WinCC minimum installation

• Basic Process Control
• User archives for load management and batch-oriented energy acquisition

• WinCC add-on "AS-OS Engineering"
  For the use of SIMATIC powerrate V4.0, WinCC must execute in integrated mode with STEP 7.
• SIMATIC NET
• STEP 7

powerrate Reports has been released for the following versions

• Microsoft Excel 2003
• Microsoft Excel 2007
• Microsoft Excel 2010
• Microsoft Excel 2013