EVN to digitalise all facilities on transmission lines by 2022
The Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) is planning to have all equipment on transmission lines and 80 percent of 110 kV circuit facilities digitalised from now to 2022.
Workers use a drone to check power transmission lines (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN)is planning to have all equipment on transmission lines and 80 percent of 110kV circuit facilities digitalised from now to 2022.
By 2025, EVN will have digitalised 100 percent of facilitieson medium- and higher-voltage power lines, according to EVN Chairman DuongQuang Thanh.
To that end, the group will press on with applying digitaltechnologies like Internet of Things, big data, and cloud computing, he said,noting that it will use artificial intelligence (AI) in monitoring andexamination and make use of photo taking devices and smart drones to repairlines.
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EVN said it has completed 61 of the 63 centres for remotecontrol of transformer stations and converted 670 of the 844 transformerstations into unmanned ones. It also put into operation the first digitaltransformer station on the 110 kV circuit, located in northern Bac Ninhprovince, in January 2020 and the first one on the 220 kV circuit, in northernHai Phong city, last December.
The firm has also applied drones to examining equipment andhandling problems on transmission lines without cutting off the power./.
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Workers use a drone to check power transmission lines (Photo: VNA) 
