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, Wide-area monitoring, Case Studies
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 | Refase, Power Grids, 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 | 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...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Synchromerger, Renewables, Industrial, Synthesis, Cable condition monitoring, White papers
Following a severe blizzard in 1888, Hugh Grant, the Mayor of New York, decided to start a global trend of undergrounding power cables to avoid storm damage. Today, global use of underground power cables in transmission and distribution ranges from 20% of the UK’s...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Refase, Mixed circuit protection, Renewables, Synchromerger, OHL sag, ampacity and dynamic line rating (DLR), Industrial, White papers
Synaptec’s distributed sensing platform consists of a compact interrogation device that passively and accurately measures values from up to 50 sensors measuring any combination of current, voltage, strain, vibration and temperature, using a single optical fibre over a...