Systems provided to the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) have reached a global value of nearly 10 million euros.

By achieving an important technological milestone, the Electricity and Water Authority - a utility from Bahrain dedicated to the generation, transport and distribution of electricity and water - has just completed the commissioning of the final substation from a set of 50, all of them equipped with Efacec-made integrated automation, protection and control systems.

The company has been continuously providing technology to the EWA (the end customer), confirming this utility’s preference for Efacec solutions to expand its power grid, in order to meet the increasing energy requirements of this country.

The systems provided are based on an Efacec CLP 500 automation platform and on the most advanced architecture in the field of power systems automation - the IEC 61850 international standard. Efacec was one of the first manufacturers to provide solutions under this standard, while being also an active promoter of its development.

With this Efacec-made technology (also installed in several other geographies, including Europe, Asia and America) the EWA can now count on a state-of-the-art solution in line with the advancements in the field of smart grid technologies, enabling an autonomous, effective and safe operation of its power grid.

The substation of Al Estithmar Al Senaa’e, the last one to be commissioned, is located in the main industrial area of Bahrain, near the important Khalifa Bin Salman port, a strategic location for the development of the country. Officially named Bahrain Kingdom, this country is located on the west coast of the Persian Gulf and is part of a region currently regarded as highly important for the future development of several of Efacec’s activities.

Source: Efanews June 2013

Efacec Automation, in close cooperation with other Efacec business units, successfully concluded installation of the first set of seven automation systems for the Venezuelan CORPOELEC, company responsible for energy supply in the country.

The substation automation systems (SAS) are installed at: Coro I, Coro II, Guacara, Morón, San Antonio, and Tinaquillo, and are composed by Efacec mobile and fixed metalclads with integrated Efacec Automation TPU 220 protection, automation and control devices. This is the first set of a total of 52 systems to be deployed for CORPOELEC. Efacec Automation team has already demonstrated the solutions application according to the customer’s requirements, during the factory acceptance test that had occurred in last quarter of 2012.

Efacec Automation was trusted with a contract for deliver the automation system for EDEL’s substation. The installations were performed at the 60/15 kV Zango substation.

The solution implemented at the substation is based on the CLP 500SAS platform; integrating Efacec UC 500E station server without mechanical parts, terminal protection units and data acquisition units from family 420 and 220; the IEC 61850 standard is also implemented. All devices communicate through the substation Ethernet LAN according to the standard protocols and are synchronized through GPS signal.

Additionally to Zango, Efacec Automation has other two ongoing projects, supplying substation automation systems for Cacuaco Sequele and Encib Camama, both of 60/15 kV. Recently, the Encib Camama system successfully passed the factory acceptance test. In the future, those substations shall be integrated in the SCADA control center, project under development of Efacec Automation.

With conclusion of this project our position at Angolan market is getting stronger. We are satisfied with the trust of EDEL in our products, solutions and engineers competences, shown by the award of new projects.

EDEL is a public company for electricity distribution in Luanda, having under its responsibility the distribution of 65% of electricity consumed in the country. Zango substation is located in the municipality of Viana, one of the seven municipalities that make up the province of Luanda.

Efacec ACS has pioneered an innovative and cost-saving approach to upgrading legacy substation RTUs from other vendors.

We have successfully delivered more than 600 upgrades, including solutions for more than 25 different RTU models. Recently, the benefits of this technology were highlighted in an article discussing a project at Seattle City Light in Washington.

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