Effective communication systems are the backbone of modern electrical substations. They ensure seamless operations, real-time monitoring, and efficient asset management. Without these systems, alarm and trending data become ineffective, leaving asset managers vulnerable to delays, inefficiencies, and costly disruptions...
The power grid is the backbone of modern society, ensuring energy flow to support homes, industries, and critical infrastructure. However, aging infrastructure, evolving energy demands, extreme weather events, and man-made attacks can expose its vulnerabilities. Such events have demonstrated the sometimes catastrophic consequences of grid disruptions, both economically and socially...
The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are among nature's most mesmerizing displays. They captivate onlookers with swirling ribbons of green, red, and purple light that dance across the night sky. However, behind this breathtaking spectacle lies a powerful natural phenomenon with severe implications for modern electrical infrastructure: Geomagnetic Disturbance Events (GMDs)...
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has established a set of requirements and standards to ensure the reliability and security of the bulk power system. These requirements, which include various reporting obligations for substations, are part of NERC’s broader effort to monitor and maintain the integrity of the power grid, which is why asset management compliance is so critical...
Transformers are one of the most critical components in electrical power systems, facilitating the safe and efficient transmission of electricity across vast distances. Given their essential role in the infrastructure, the health and longevity of transformers are crucial for ensuring system reliability and avoiding costly downtime...
Asset management is crucial in the utilities sector, where the efficient operation of electrical systems is essential for safety and reliability. One key element in this field is managing circuit breakers, which protect electrical infrastructure from faults. Traditionally, Protective Relays have played a vital role in controlling circuit breakers, but modern Breaker Monitoring systems offer deeper insights into asset health...
Electricity networks are changing, and loads have increased and are less predictable. There is an uptake of electric vehicles, and distributed energy resources such as solar PV, data center consumption, and vehicle-to-grid are examples of new dynamics straining the historically passive medium and low voltage distribution networks...
While mechanical gauges have been reliable tools for temperature monitoring for decades, their limitations are becoming more pronounced as industries demand higher accuracy, better data integration, and more sophisticated transformer monitoring capabilities. For many years the limit for normal apparatus loading was based on the maximum nameplate rating or an arbitrarily set value, called “the red line.”...
Transformer monitoring is not a one-size-fits-all approach due to the varied operational environments, transformer types, and specific needs of different power systems. The choice between Key Gas and Multi gas depends on several factors including the criticality of the transformer, the type of load it handles, the environmental conditions, and the maintenance strategy of the utility or industrial operator...
