The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has announced the availability of an asset health monitoring service that enables centralized management of power plants, substations and power lines.   

The service is available to all municipal utilities, coops and manufacturing customers served by NYPA. NYPA is offering customers the ability to centrally manage specific asset health alarms and alerts, while maintaining current utility decision-making such as approving and scheduling maintenance and ordering parts.

The Massena Electric Department (MED) in Northern New York will be the first customer to pilot the expanded services of NYPA’s technology, which will deploy the same set of analytics that are used to monitor and help prevent equipment failures and outages of NYPA’s power assets to monitor the local municipal utility’s assets. These expanded digital utility services enable NYPA, along with its customers, to make continued progress in meeting New York State’s clean energy goals and creating a more resilient, reliable and flexible energy system.

In the case of MED, NYPA will pilot the service and monitor select sub-station assets, including a transformer and two battery banks. The pilot aims to reduce the cost of asset management and minimize business disruptions caused by unanticipated asset failures. NYPA will design and install sensors to identify “bad actor” occurrences and notify MED personnel of any irregularities through alerts.

NYPA’s monitoring system has more than 63,000 data points that currently monitor 283 power generation and transmission assets throughout the State. This monitoring helps identify problems and issues before they occur, in an effort to prevent potential service outages and reduce repair and replacement costs.

 NYPA plans to integrate and offer additional monitoring capabilities in the future, including a suite of sensors across multiple assets.

Source: NYPA