Arneil Dalope - Application Engineer Arneil joins the team from his most recent role as Solutions Engineer (Energy Efficiency) at Schneider Electric Philippines. He has a wealth of experience in power metering and energy management systems and audits. Prior to this Arneil was with Meralco Energy and First Electro Dynamics in the Philippines. Arneil holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology (Philippines) and gained the qualification of Master Electrician from the Professional Regulatory Commission (Philippines).
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Alister Brunsden - Application Engineer Alister joins Quasar from his most recent role as a Software Engineer involved in PLC programming and SCADA & HMI projects in the Electrical Engineering industry. Prior to this he was a Technical Services Manager supporting clients around New Zealand. Alister holds a degree in Commerce majoring in Information Technology. He also holds Electrical Services Technician Certification, A & B. Transformer Loss Compensation is used when a revenue meter’s actual location is different from the electrical location where a change of ownership occurs; for example, where meters at a power station are connected on the low-voltage side of power transformers when the ownership change occurs on the high-side of the transformer. This physical separation between meter and actual billing or reconciliation point results in measurable losses. The most common implementation of this technology is in relation to 2 winding transformers. Providing a solution for 3 winding transformers is a considerably more complex scenario as the delivered power may flow in more than one direction. Quasar’s solution was developed and proven using ION 8800, ION8600, and ION7650 meters and ION Enterprise™ software. Quasar Systems NZ’s leading supplier and integrator of revenue and power quality meters and metering systems to local power generators and distributors has recently been awarded a contract by Transpower New Zealand for the supply of revenue meters following an extensive evaluation programme. Transpower has approximately 450 legacy revenue meters installed at some 152 substations throughout New Zealand. When purchased in the early 1990’s the meters were ‘state of the art’ technology but are now nearing the end of their physical life. This year we created a Quasar Control Room at the EEA Conference to compliment the conference's theme of Leadership & Innovation.
Our meters were available to view and we showed FCAS event simulation as well as a live SCADA/HMI system. These solutions are powerful features of our Metering and SCADA/HMI systems that meet your most demanding needs. Thank you for visiting us, it was nice to catch up with you and see you next year! Contact Energy is a large, dynamic company playing a pivotal role in New Zealand’s energy sector. Generating between 25 and 30 percent of New Zealand’s electricity, the Company recently celebrated the completion of their Generation Meters Project by Quasar Systems. The works and services undertaken for this contract relate to the replacement of obsolete metering and data recorder hardware with modern technologies, and the supply of a metering system suitable for delivering generation metering data to external metering data collection and other business applications. Legacy meters and data loggers that had been installed in the mid 1990s were replaced at all nine Contact generation stations. The sixty new ION 8600 and ION 8800 IEC class 0.2s meters measure energy flows at the point of connection between Contact and the national grid. Features such as transformers and line loss compensation, meter-based bus and station aggregation, and dual mastering of meters, were included. ION Enterprise software manages data collection, monitoring of real-time power conditions, report generation, and deliver metering data for down-stream applications. “Thanks to you and your team for Quasar’s excellent input to the project;
an outstanding result and everything has settled down fine" Murray Hill - Generation Engineer - Contact Energy It was out with the old and in with the new recently for the HMI/SCADA at Transpower’s (TP) Islington Substation, one of their largest and most complex sites. The previous HMI system was at ‘end of life’, utilising an obsolete operating system & associated PC hardware, and posing an unacceptable risk of the loss of local control facilities at the substation. The requirement was for a replacement HMI system (both hardware & software) with almost 5000 points, communicating with the 53 C50 RTUs, used for control and indication functions as well as Reactive Power Control. Monitoring and control of the RTUs is carried out remotely from Transpower’s national SCADA and via the local HMI system. |