Tavrida Electric Australia took part in the 2010 National Conference of the Electric Energy Society of Australia (EESA) held in Sydney in early September. This conference is the only event in Australia that is exclusively focused on electricity supply, touching mainly on distribution and transmission and associated engineering philosophies. The theme for this year’s conference, “Watts’s up- Designing future proof energy networks” highlighted the challenges being faced by the Australian electricity industry.

Tavrida Electric Australia displayed its full range of medium voltage vacuum autoreclosers 12-38 kV on the trade exhibition accompanying the conference. We were proud to launch in the Australian market the new TELSMART38kV1200 A outdoor circuit breaker/autorecloser that incorporates Tavrida Electric’s latest technology in vacuum switching, magnetic actuators and insulation achieving the ground breaking ultra compact dimensions and ultra low weight.This state of the art 38 kV 1200A outdoor vacuum circuit breaker with integrated current and voltage sensors is even more compact than most of the 15 kV 630 A autoreclosers on the market, while being able to switch five times more power.

The innovative recloser management software TELARM was another highlight of Tavrida’s display.Unlike conventional recloser’s software, TELARM allows not only communication with the recloser, but also simulation of the entire network operation and automatic calculation of the optimum protection settings. TELARM’s network simulation capabilities has sparkled a great interest among energy utilities, since this feature allowssimplifying calculation and verification of the protection settings.

A presentation “MV Switchgear panels LISA IAC classified 31.5 kA 1 s”was delivered to the conference participantsby Tavrida Electric Australia’s product manager Dmitry Lazarchuk. There he shared Tavrida Electric’s experience in designing and testing of the IAC classified air insulated indoor switchgear to achieve the arc flash safety much demanded by the industry today.