by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Renewables, Industrial, Case Studies
Electricity from renewables is helping reduce the emissions that would otherwise be produced from fossil fuels, but network operators struggle in integrating these more distributed sources of energy. One solution is to use smart grids capable of monitoring and...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Refase, Industrial, Line differential protection for complex feeders, Case Studies, Wide-area monitoring
Accurate, reliable and real-time protection is vital for maintaining integrity and continuity of service on power networks. The increased drive to integrate new renewable generation within the network has also heightened the multi-ended circuit challenge. Distance and...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Refase, Industrial, Synthesis, Digitalising substations, Case Studies
Fast and robust busbar protection is critical to ensuring the reliability and safety of transmission substations and their power networks. Failure to clear busbar faults in a timely manner has the potential to severely damage the entire substation, causing prolonged...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Renewables, Synchromerger, Industrial, Synthesis, Cable condition monitoring, Case Studies
CASE STUDY – THE REACTION PROJECT, LEVENMOUTH 2020 1 Offshore wind generation is subject to harsher conditions than onshore wind, which puts a great deal of pressure on the reliability of critical infrastructure. With the increase in the number of offshore wind farms...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Refase, Home Featured, Industrial, White papers
In the past two decades the power sector has steadily increased its investment in optical sensing technologies. At present, distributed fibre optic temperature sensing technologies are widely used by utilities to provide valuable operational ampacity data for...
