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Helping Colorado Utility Mitigate Pole Fires
In 2020 our partner, Exacter Inc, began working with a Colorado utility company experiencing an average of 10 pole fires each year within its distribution grid. Exacter identified 65 issues with active components which were replaced, resulting in ZERO pole fires over the next 24 months.
Bush Fire Risk Mitigation
The root cause of most electricity pole fires is the breakdown of insulating properties of overhead equipment and it is almost impossible to detect using standard visual and IR inspections.
Sustainability Readiness!
Grid Analytics recently had an opportunity to meet with Gary Huffman Jr, a Senior Client Services Manager within the Transmission and Distribution Services arm of Burns & McDonnell.
Announcing our Partnership with Exacter
Grid Analytics is excited to announce that we have formed a partnership with Exacter Inc to promote its industry-leading offering to utilities in the Asia-Pacific region.
Grid Resiliency: Preparing for the Unexpected, the Inevitable
We found this great exposition on Grid Resiliency! The Report highlights shifting perspectives on future impacts to grid resilience and reliability as a result of surveying executives of utilities and consumers.
Application of Exacter technology to Distribution environments
We're very excited about the application of the core Exacter technology to the Distribution environment:
Partnerships
We at Grid Analytics have partnered with Exacter, Inc., a Columbus Ohio USA, based organisation to bring their industry leading innovative technology and solutions to the Asia-Pacific region and other complementary partners to support the electricity utilities.
RF Emissions
"The presence of arcing, leaking or tracking is the most indicative sign of failing equipment."
Dr. Stephen Sebo
Professor Emeritus
The Ohio State University
High Voltage Laboratory.
Improved Grid
Reliability & Resilience
Up until now, local utilities have had to rely on historical data to inform maintenance priorities and actions. With Grid Analytics' ability to provide accurate insights into pre-failure components combined with network segment criticality, this changes everything, allowing a more informed evidence-based prioritisation effort. The result is a more sustainable network that delivers reliability and resilience for utilities and their customers.
Bushfire Risk
Mitigation
The root cause of most pole fires is the breakdown of insulating properties of overhead equipment and the resultant current leakage. Unfortunately, this current leakage is usually invisible and void of a heat signature – making it almost impossible to detect using standard visual and IR inspections.
The good news? Grid Analytics' RF emission technology is uniquely able to detect all kinds of invisible partial discharges – including leakage current. Identifying the locations of equipment exhibiting these conditions gives utilities an opportunity to change-out, or wash, the affected components, minimising the potential of pole fires.
Sustainability Ready
The use of renewable energy generation mechanisms is increasing by both primary power generators and consumers, and demand profiles are evolving due to the change in where this takes place, subsequently increasing pressure on the electricity grid.
Having a more resilient grid will support the injection of energy from sustainable sources and accommodate the changing demand profiles.
White Paper
Partial Discharge and Electromagnetic Interference to Identify Defects