New Braunfels Utilities deploys Sentient Energy’s UM1 Intelligent Line Sensors

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Extends Underground Visibility, Fault Detection, and Load Monitoring Further Along Residential Distribution Circuits

Sentient Energy Inc. announced that New Braunfels Utilities (NBU) has installed the Sentient Energy UM1 underground line sensors in their Underground Residential Distribution (URD) system.

New Braunfels Utilities has utilized Sentient Energy solutions to help improve grid operations and fault detection practices for several years,” said NBU Systems Control Manager Justin Stroupe. “Our population has nearly doubled in the last 10 years1. As our economy and population grow, safety, reliability, and efficiency are the primary objectives of NBU. We have had success with Sentient Energy sensors and analytics, which have delivered important measurable results over the years. We are anticipating building on this success with the addition of Sentient Energy’s UM1 to our single phase underground residential distribution systems.”

Extended Visibility, Fault Detection, & Load Monitoring for Underground Distribution Circuits

The first sensor of its kind in the industry, UM1 aims to allow NBU to extend underground line sensing beyond feeder lines to include laterals or URD. Sentient Energy’s UM1 provides remote visibility, fault detection, and load monitoring in single-phase transformer cabinets. It allows utilities to improve reliability, system visibility, and better manage assets all the way out to the grid edge. Leveraging the UM1 for underground line sensing, NBU can now:

  • Locate faults more precisely to reduce patrol time and outage durations (and CAIDI/SAIDI metrics).
  • Use system load data from more locations to improve load profiling and capacity planning.
  • Determine true loading on transformers to identify overloading and improve asset management.

Complete Overhead and Underground Fault Detection, Analytics and Visibility

Sentient Energy’s Grid Analytics System™ consists of the MM3™ and ZM1™ overhead sensors, UM3+ and UM1™ underground sensors, and the Ample® Analytics Platform. These solutions work in concert to provide utilities with optimal electric distribution system visibility to improve reliability and enable data-driven operational decision making.

Sentient Energy’s intelligent sensing solutions are used globally by utilities of every size and is deployed in over 25 of North America’s largest utilities.

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