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Technology’s Cable Canary nominated for IET


Innovation Award


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A product developed by EA Technology in collaboration with UK Power Networks has been nominated for the prestigious IET Innovation Award called the Cable Canary, which helps predict cable joint failure to potentially prevent power outages and reduce the risk of injury within substations. A research programme within UK Power Networks concluded in a collaborative partnership between the electricity distribution company and EA Technology to develop the innovative Cable Canary device. The Cable Canary brings direct safety benefits for highly trained engineers and the general public through predicting failures on cable joints, as well as indirect benefits from helping to prevent power cuts and other risks. This technology, the first of its kind in the world, can potentially save £530,000 for UK Power Networks. says the manufacturer. EA Technology’s Cable Canary can monitor the health of high voltage (HV) cable joints and predict if they are likely to develop a fault, so allowing a planned intervention. The Cable Canary is a monitoring device which uses an advanced radio frequency current transformer (RFCT). It employs a unique algorithm designed to discriminate against noise sources and signals from remote partial discharge activity, which would otherwise result in false alarms. The Cable Canary can be rapidly installed in a substation without any disruption to electricity supply, says EA Technology. A number of Cable Canary prototypes have been installed within London substations as part of UK Power Networks’ project, with the trial successfully identifying a cable joint at a critical location with degradation before a dangerous failure could occur.


Subsidy‐free solar could power UK railways,


suggests study


Solar panels connected directly to rail network could supply 10% of the electricity needs of direct current routes operated by UK trains, a new study has reported. The research, which was carried out by Imperial College London’s Energy Futures Lab and the climate change charity 10:10, examined the potential to bypass the power grid by linking solar panels directly to railway substations using custom electronics. The report found that solar arrays and integrated energy storage devices could supply around 10 per cent of the annual power requirements for the UK’s direct current electrified rail routes, which tend to be more common in urban areas. Crucially, they could do so at a lower cost than electricity supplied via the grid today. “I believe that decarbonising our transport sector is key to meeting the UK’s climate targets,” said Energy Futures Lab director and academic lead Tim Green. “The Renewable Traction Power project demonstrates that we can harness solar to help make this a reality for our train network.


National Grid orders four new Siemens transformers for the HVDC Cross‐Channel Link


The UK’s National Grid has ordered four transformers, from Siemens, each with a capacity of 400 kilovolts (kV) and 315 megavolt amperes (MVA). The National Grid operator


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Key topics features at top UK Energy Conference in 2018 Coventry


will replace the old, outmoded transformers for the high- voltage direct-current (HVDC) Cross-Channel Link. The new transformers are said to be quieter, have lower transmission losses and will significantly improve the system's reliability. The HVDC link connects France and England and makes it possible to efficiently exchange energy in both directions. The order includes the supply, installation and commissioning of the trans- formers for the Sellindge converter station in England. Siemens will complete the work by mid-2019. “These new HVDC transformers will enable our customer to raise its system to a new level of energy efficiency and reliability," says Beatrix Natter, CEO of the Siemens Transformers Business Unit. "We are proud that National


Grid has placed the order with us as a reliable technolo- gy partner." All four transformers are


being manufactured in a Siemens facility - the Nuremberg transformer factory. This factory has many years of experience in building transformers and manufactures HVDC transformers of all sizes up to a voltage level of 1,100 kilovolts (kV), which is currently the world record in transformer manufacturing. National Grid is one of the world's largest investor- owned utilities focused on transmission and distribution activities in electricity and gas in the UK.


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