Operation, Maintenance & Breakers
Current innovations are helping to replace our preventive maintenance approach with predictive methods, based on hardware knowledge and Big Data solutions.
Electricity suppliers manage dispersed assets that require extensive repairs, heavy maintenance, and monitoring operations. The recommendations aim to improve the performance of networks and equipment such as transformers, circuit breakers, and medium- and low-voltage lines, in order to ensure the continuity of electricity supply.
Current innovations are helping to replace our preventive maintenance approach with predictive methods, based on equipment knowledge and Big Data solutions. This is expected to help reduce operational costs.
A wide range of technologies are currently being evaluated, including transformer modeling using monitoring sensors, thermographic cameras in substations, specialized trucks for underground cable testing, drones for network monitoring, and vegetation growth monitoring through photogrammetry.
Objectives
Define and improve key performance indicators
Reduce operational and capital expenditures through optimized processes
Secure third parties, internal and external workers through demanding safety prevention measures
Our approach
Exploitation, Maintenance & Protections offers technical assistance to meet the needs and goals of the DSOs in the following areas:
- Audit, evaluation and diagnosis of the operations and maintenance organisation.
- Recommendations for establishing Technical and Operational Procedures for troubleshooting interventions and site access.
- Definition of preventive and curative maintenance charts in MV and LV.
- Proposal of a Power System Protection Scheme
- Definition of a training program and establishment of a training centre.
- Know-how transfer through training and studies.
Benefits of Operation, Maintenance and Protection consulting services for Distribution System Operators
- Coordination of activities improves the performance of interventions
- Improved supply quality, and therefore customer satisfaction
- Maintain and enhance useful life of assets
- Better integration of decentralised production sites into the distribution network
- Better understanding and consideration of intervention risks
- Control inconveniences from the clients’ point of view
- Reduce repair requirements with protection systems
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