Make green energy more efficient, reliable and safe
Distributed, intermittent renewable power sources create natural load and phase imbalances at the interconnect to the grid. This results in a degradation of efficiency (loss of revenue), equipment life (higher replacement costs), and power quality (“dirty power” that damages rate payer electronics). These effects represent increasing challenges as the percentage of renewable sources continues to grow. The Line Ranger network provides the real-time data required to monitor, reduce, and help eliminate these effects, helping to make the transition to green energy both practical and successful.
Make green energy more efficient and reliable.
Problem:
• Traditional grid inefficiently integrates renewable energy sources.
• Unbalanced loads/phases result in expensive losses, tripping, degradation.
• Current solutions not sufficient to address this.
SmartKable Solution:
• Product description.
• Key install metrics.
• Software capability.
Competitive Advantages:
• Real-time data that is accurate enables continuous balancing.
• Reduced losses with accurate load/phase balancing.
• Decrease fossil fuel power generation.
• Enable successful scaling.
Identify, track and trace losses in real-time.
The Line Ranger network can identify, track and trace losses in substations and feeders in real-time. It can provide a health assessment, separating technical losses from commercial losses (such as theft) and providing a permanent data record and analytics to enable those losses to be recouped. It also provides situational awareness and fault anticipation, noting abnormal conditions instantly, enabling mitigation before a fault or other disruptive event occurs. The Line Ranger network can be deployed throughout the grid and communicates line status and performance through a wireless network of the utility’s choosing.
Identify, track and trace losses in real-time.
Problem:
• Redo around technical and commercial losses.
• Large problem globally.
SmartKable Solution:
• Installed on lines for accuracy.
• Cloud-based communication.
• Data available in milliseconds.
• Real-time alerts.
• Custom reporting.
• Data trending and analysis.
Competitive Advantages:
• Accuracy.
• Cost.
• Remote fault indication.
• Reduce losses from power line degradation, theft, instability, and inefficient integration.
Expand powerline capacity and predict remaining line lifetimes.
The Line Analyzer software utilizes real-time and accurate data from the Line Ranger sensors continuously. This enables “dynamic line rating” to maximize the line capacity under all conditions. It also has algorithms to predict the remaining lifetime of powerlines. The lifetime prediction allows utility operators to prioritize infrastructure investments, lowering operations and maintenance costs, and further increasing overall capacity.
Predict the remaining lifetimes of power lines.
Problem:
• Accurate data required to make costly capital and O&M expense decisions.
• Cost and limited availability of integrated hardware and software solutions.
• Expensive sensor installation and integration costs with limited accuracy.
• Aerial and manual inspection expensive and not effective.
SmartKable Solution:
• Real-time data measured in milliseconds.
• Proprietary algorithms to identify remaining lifetime of power lines.
• Software analysis capable of predicting future faults and failures.
Competitive Advantages:
• Predict and prioritize future maintenance, savings to capital and expense budgets.
• Reduce technical losses and prevent future failures.
• Increase safety and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
Prevent and mitigate fires ignited by powerlines.
Wildfires are becoming increasingly pervasive and destructive and powerlines are a common cause The Line Ranger Network is the first to be able to monitor the conditions directly on and around the lines The Line Ranger network can directly sense parameters that represent increasing fire risk, including fast-changing wind speed, abnormal current and voltage loading, shorts and faults. higher ambient temperature, lower relative humidity and weaker interconnects. This data can prevent fires by signaling to shut down power where warranted while keeping power on when safe. It can mitigate fires once ignited by providing immediate and critical data from the point of origin, dramatically reducing response times and evacuation orders as needed. It can help with continuous improvement by providing actual location data to load into complex models and analytics.