Terna: seven new monitoring devices installed along approximately 16 km of power lines in Marche Region

TERNA: SEVEN NEW MONITORING DEVICES INSTALLED ALONG APPROXIMATELY 16 KM OF POWER LINES IN MARCHE REGION

The high-tech equipment is designed to remotely monitor lines involved in critical weather events

and will help acquire data useful for managing the region

Ascoli Piceno is the first of the five provinces of Marche region involved in the work

Rome, 3 January 2022 - As part of the plan to digitalise its assets, Terna has completed the installation in the Marche Region of seven IoT (Internet of Things) sensor devices designed and developed by the Italian electricity transmission grid operator to create a true digital replica of its own power lines (digital twin).

The sensors - already present in other Italian regions such as Abruzzo, Veneto and Sicily - were installed in the province of Ascoli Piceno, the first of the five provinces of the region involved in the work aimed at guaranteeing the widest and most detailed monitoring of the region's power grid.

The high-tech equipment installed will allow approximately 16 km of overhead power lines to be monitored remotely. These lines are subjected to severe weather, including ice and snow, and as these conditions are increasingly frequent in Italy, projects like this ensure further improvements to the grid's reliability. The data thus collected will also make it possible to develop predictive maintenance techniques to further reduce line failures.

The two power lines involved (Montorio - Candia der. Rosara der. Abbadia; Rosara - Force) were identified on the basis of careful analyses of the region and of the electricity outages caused by bad weather over the last few years.

Thanks to the installation of these sensors, it will be possible to monitor, amongst other things, the variation in conductor tension caused by the formation of ice sleeves, which are responsible for numerous electricity outages. It will also be possible to transmit the information collected to a central platform, a kind of database, to support asset management and the continuity of the electricity service.

The information acquired can also be made available to institutions and research bodies in order to predictively monitor weather and environmental events which could be potentially critical for optimal management of the region.