Electrical utilities continuously encounter the challenges of providing reliable power to end users due to several reasons such as equipment failure, lightning strikes accidents and natural catastrophes. Power disturbances and outages in substations occur and often results in long interruptions. Thus substations have to be closely monitored and properly controlled in order to take necessary precautions accurately and timely fashion.
In this respect substation automation facilitates substation supervision from the centralized location. Depending on customer requirements, inter-operatibility between Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) for protection, metering and control of various equipments like MV/LV switchgears, transformers, battery chargers etc is provided. Moreover system allows online display of various equipments and their real time parameters for system operators to analyze and help them achieving optimized power system distribution.
Substation Automation equipments from Al-AHLEIA consist of DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM and DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DMS) which can be deployed depending on the size of the electrical network.