Enhance Substation Efficiency with Low Voltage Visibility & Monitoring

Delivering Network Visibility - A collaborative platform for DNSP, community groups, and others.

Getting the most out of Low Voltage networks by turning raw data into actionable insights.

As we continue on our transition to a Clean Energy Future, data, particularly from the low voltage network, is proving a key enabler. This data is critical for selecting the optimal locations to site distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar PV, EV chargers and battery storage, as well as other network connection requests.

EA Technology in partnership with Western Power Distribution (UK) trialled and proved an innovative low voltage visibility and monitoring solution in the development of the Open LV project.

This technology provides a new, open and flexible solution (LV-CAP®) that not only provided the DNSPs, community groups and the wider industry with data from the LV network, but also enabled these groups to develop and deploy apps within LV substations through a common hardware platform (VisNet Hub).

The Project demonstrated how the VisNet Hub can benefit the local electricity network by:

• Monitoring the network
• Performing calculations on the data received locally, reducing data transmission requirements
• Calculate real-time updates on the state of network assets, including remaining local capacity
• Predict the future status of the network based on historical performance
• Enact changes to the local network in response to current and predicted network status