Electricity networks
For DSOs and TSOs who want to manage the risks generated by thunderstorms and lightning proactively.
Your requirements
Electricity networks are particularly vulnerable to thunderstorms and lightning across the entire value chain.
All the phases in the lifespan of your infrastructures are affected, from analysis and design to operation and preventive and corrective maintenance.
Your structures — lines, substations and towers — can be highly exposed to the hazards generated by thunderstorms and lightning.
You need reliable information and decision-making aid tools in order to:
- design and correctly size lightning protection systems for your installations,
- improve the safety of your teams working outdoors,
- optimize the operation of your network to avoid outages due to power surges and ensure supply to your customers,
- inspect your equipment likely to have been damaged by lightning before any failure that could affect the network itself.
All our solutions tailored to your requirements
Evaluate your exposure to thunderstorms and lightning
Analyze your risks and adapt your means of prevention and protection.
Be alerted to the arrival and end of a thunderstorm
Safeguard people and infrastructures, adapt your operations.
Monitor live thunderstorms and lightning
Optimize your preventive measures and mitigate risks as early as possible.
Check any damage and your installations after a thunderstorm
Determine whether lightning has caused damage and optimize your inspection process.
Integrate lightning information
Feed your own tools with our high-resolution flows and data, in real time or past time.
Receive training on lightning and thunderstorm risks
Develop your skills and your employees’ skills.
Develop your own lightning service capability
Take advantage of CATS and provide your users with services tailored to their requirements.
What our customers say
Since 2003, Rede Eléctrica Nacional has been using real-time lightning information, because it plays a significant and critical role in the operation of high-voltage networks.
Before and/or during network maintenance operations, the operator, REN, decides whether to confirm or cancel planned operations if a thunderstorm is approaching the work zone. For zones where lightning is detected, REN uses the L-2 safety criteria on the pillars supporting two circuits as there is a risk of failure that could impact the network at the highest level. A risk-management application is currently being developed to calculate the failure probability for each line. We use real-time information from METEORAGE for this pilot application.
For the analysis of each high-voltage fault on the Portuguese network, we carry out a METEORAGE Survey, which enables us to clearly and rigorously identify faults on the electrical network. Lightning detection by METEORAGE has a low margin of error, which improves the quality of the data collected. Analysis is now much faster and more accurate.”
Rede Eléctrica Nacional (REN)
Portuguese Electricity Network
ELIA GROUP
Electricity Network
Key benefits for our users
01 No need to install equipment or software.
02Compliance with international standards IEC 62858 and IEC 62793.
03High-resolution data from the best detection technologies currently available.
04A dedicated technical team for services operational 24/7.
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