CANADA -- SFP Pointe-Noire has commissioned GE Renewable Energy to provide their new digital disconnector monitoring and control device for an air-insulated substation at Sept-ÃŽsles, Quebec.

Société ferroviaire et portuaire de Pointe-Noire (SFP Pointe-Noire) is a strategic railway and port hub for the natural resource industry in Québec and Labrador. The company has invested in a new 170 kV electrical substation.

The substation will be located in the Atlantic Northeast and energize SFP Pointe-Noire's industrial transit zone dedicated to the natural resource industry.

With a focus on condition-based maintenance operation, the substation equipment - mainly the circuit breakers and the disconnectors - is featuring GE's control and monitoring devices with full IEC 61850 communication protocol implementation. These monitoring systems provide maintenance employees with local and remote data consultation.

This is the first time that this disconnector monitoring and control device has been installed on GE's CGVB08 vertical break type disconnector.

Source: GE