HYDERABAD
The Northern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd (TGNPDCL) has put in the Real Time Feeder Monitoring System (RTFMS) devices throughout all of the 16 circles in its purview to make sure its shoppers get improved and high quality energy provide.
Chairman and Managing Director of the Discom Ok. Varun Reddy said that the Northern Discom is among the many first distribution utilities within the nation to undertake the superior know-how. The new system would assist the utility receive correct real-time data on energy provide and allow immediate motion and efficient monitoring of feeders, thereby lowering energy interruptions considerably, he defined.
The technical group of the utility had studied the know-how throughout six States earlier than finalising it for implementation and it’s at the moment in use in Odisha. The CMD stated the know-how is customised to go well with the operational wants of the NPDCL.
After confirming its effectiveness, it was initially examined at 5 substations as a pilot challenge. Once these substations had been built-in with the SCADA system and after receiving optimistic suggestions, the system was prolonged to a different 133 substations, the CMD said.
“Work on the remaining substations is progressing swiftly with the engineers concerned working diligently to achieve the set targets. For rural substations, an efficient and cost-effective version of the technology has been designed to ensure reliable communication and monitoring”, he defined.
A brand new SCADA-compatible software program was developed and put in on the Warangal headquarters to handle substation operations. Keeping in view the longer term growth, servers have additionally been set as much as meet the software program necessities for the following 15 years.
On the advantages of the RTFMS, Mr. Varun Reddy stated operations might be managed straight from the SCADA Control Room, real-time outage alerts might be despatched to subject workers enabling fast restoration of energy provide, overload warnings might be transmitted immediately to subject personnel and real-time information akin to energy consumption and voltage ranges might be captured and analysed.
In addition, Fault Passage Indicators (FPIs) are being put in alongside 2,500 strains of 33kV and 11kV capability to boost provide reliability. During the breakdowns, pure calamities or technical points, FPIs would assist establish the precise fault location with out the necessity to patrol the complete strains, permitting engineers to instantly attend to the affected part and restore energy provide and rapidly minimise the downtime of energy interruptions.