45 minutes presentation includes 10 minutes of Q&A.
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Group CBS
Substation Maintenance Activities To Increase System Reliability
Adhering to comprehensive substation maintenance testing leads to more system reliability. Addressing even the most minor operational or functional issues immediately when discovered during routine inspections is crucial to avoiding preventable failures. As such, it's important to ensure that predictive and proactive maintenance is performed and any deviations from standards are addressed in a timely fashion. Learn how becoming an early adopter of “new technology” improves the accuracy of accessing and monitoring substation equipment
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
H2SCAN
Transformer Life Expectancy – How long will your transformers last?
This presentation will summarize various industry data to provide insights into how long transformers typically last. Factors such as application, design, manufacturing, operation, and maintenance all affect the performance and expected life of transformers. Monitoring the performance of these critical assets is a good way to mitigate the risk of unforeseen failure.
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Critter Guard
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
Critter Guard has published their own curated statistics on the frequency and type of animal related outages for power utilities. It's not a matter of IF you'll experience an animal outage, but a matter of WHEN. This presentation will detail Critter Guard's efforts to prevent animal outages and keep the power on!
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Zensol Automation INC
Methodology for the maintenance program of high voltage substations
In this presentation, you will find a summarized description of a typical high voltage substation maintenance program structure and its main components. We will show some real examples inspired from Hydro Quebec maintenance program methodology. We hope it will give maintenance planners managers enough insight to shape their electrical equipment maintenance programs or initiate one if it does not exist yet.
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
I-Gard Corporation
Safer and Quicker Absence of Voltage Testing
The two standards that detail the requirements of verifying that current carrying conductors are de-energized are NFPA70E (CSAZ46 in Canada) and OSHA.
NFPA70E has undergone updates in 2015, 2018, 2021 and will be updated further in 2024 with respect to conducting the absence of voltage test.
This forum will discuss the evolution of this safety standard, outline the product options and discuss in detail what is and what is not allowed.
The focus will be on how using a UL approved absence of voltage tester that meets UL1436, is not only the quickest option but the safest option.
Concerns about the use of technology will be addressed and answered.
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
TransGard LLC
Animal Mitigation: To Expensive to Ignore
We read about it almost every day across the country: animals like squirrels, raccoons, snakes, and birds enter substations for warmth, food, security, or simply out of curiosity. They make contact with sensitive equipment, creating short circuits, tripping breakers, damaging equipment, causing fires, and ultimately shutting off service to thousands. In many areas, wildlife intruding into power equipment has become the leading cause of outages – even more common than storms or vegetation.
A single substation outage can cost tens of thousands of dollars in equipment repair or replacement, man hours and more. The annual cost to utility companies for recovering from animal-related outages is estimated in the billions of dollars, not including the cost of lost commercial activity, lowered productivity, and consumer dissatisfaction.
Animal-caused outages are a problem that is too significant and expensive to be ignored, and one that is largely preventable.
In this presentation, Bill Marks, Director of Sales at TransGard LLC, will give an overview of the challenges posed by different types of animals and birds, and ways in which substation managers can protect their facilities – and their reputations.
