Power Utilities
The provision of accurate time is extremely important for utilities to enable precision event time stamping to provide an historical chronological audit trail, which may be vital for safety information records. Also, it is crucial to have an accurate and reliable source for time measurement for calculating billing amounts.
Our precision time and frequency standards can also monitor the frequency of AC power distribution grid. This allows the load on the generation or distribution network to be accurately measured so that the capacity can be increase or decreased as required, in order to fulfil current electricity demand.
Precise time can also be used as a low cost solution to the location of faults on long distance power lines. Traditionally this task was carried out by visual inspection of overhead power cables, either from the ground or using helicopters. Using time tagging to measure the 'reflection' of a signal sent down a suspect line can pinpoint faults to within a few metres.
Our Master Clocks are used extensively in electricity generation stations and distribution sub-stations, oil and gas production platforms, and water distribution systems.
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