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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2020

Marketing contact: Martin Van Der Linde General Manager - Marketing Tel : +61 7 3907 8777 Fax : +61 7 3399 6777 martinv@nojapower.com.au www.nojapower.com.au

First Outdoor RC20 Controller Installations in Australia

Australian switchgear engineering NOJA Power are celebrating the first pole-

top field installations of their new RC20 Recloser Control product. Forming part

of the ARENA project for gathering of distribution utility Synchrophasor data,

the Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) capable RC20 unit will be commissioned

to stream a gigabyte of GPS timestamped network data per day back to a

central data warehouse for analysis.

NOJA Power’s First RC20 in Outdoor Pole Mount Service

The RC20 is controlling a standard NOJA Power OSM Recloser, offering

conventional protection to the distribution feeder whilst adding high resolution

data capture in PMU format. This PMU data will be streamed via IEC 61850

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Sampled Values over IP to a secure cloud data repository, with additional

IEC61850 R-GOOSE reporting for any system disturbances.

NOJA Power’s participation in this ARENA project aims to capture real-time

vision of the distribution grid, providing operators with unprecedented network

performance analytics and granularity. The RC20 provides distribution network

service providers with a means to aim to tackle the challenges posed by

intermittency and bidirectional power flow in a network with a high penetration

of renewable energy.

NOJA Power RC20 under installation

“This project is a great example of the Australian government, the electricity

utilities, Energy Queensland and AusNet, the universities, the University of

Queensland and Deakin University and industry working together to create and

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deploy leading edge technology, reports NOJA Power Group Managing

Director Neil O’Sullivan. “The real time data logged from these devices will

now be used by PhD scholars at both universities to research better ways to

connect and reconnect renewable energy to the distribution grid, as well as

protect and isolate faults, detect faults and even analyse the grid to detect and

forecast faults before they happen all with a focus on increasing distribution

grid reliability with large scale populations of renewable energy.”

NOJA Power advises the RC20 will be available for general commercial

release in 2021, whilst research projects using the platform are continuing

today between DNSP partners, utilities and government organisations. The

RC20 will take its place as the flagship recloser controller product for NOJA

Power, supported alongside their RC10 standard offering and RC15

communications augmented variants. For more information, visit

www.nojapower.com.au or contact your local NOJA Power Distributor.

http://www.nojapower.com.au/

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