Australian electricity network operator Essential Energy has selected Gomero’s connected monitoring equipment, SIPP, for a major data center project north of Canberra. This project, Essential Energy’s first of its kind, includes a large zone transformer station that uses environmentally friendly ester-based insulating oil for transformer cooling. In the event of a leak, Gomero’s SIPP Node effectively detects both ester and mineral oils. Today, SIPP is the only certified technology capable of detecting ester and mineral oils down to 1 ppm. Essential Energy signed the new agreement with Gomero’s local partner KingHill.
Automated environmental protection for the transformer oil catch basin is an important part of digitizing maintenance and meeting rising environmental requirements for critical infrastructure. Essential Energy already uses SIPP at several of its transformer stations.
A demanding, advanced market
Essential Energy’s renewed choice of SIPP for a project aligned with their long-term strategy for digitization and the green transition is an important endorsement. Australia is a highly advanced market with strict environmental and safety requirements for participating companies. The deal also confirms that our focus on data centers as a key growth segment is starting to pay off. We see potential across all our markets, says Gomero CEO Jan-Eric Nilsson.
— Gomero is the only provider on the market with a certified solution that can detect environmentally friendly ester oil down to 1 ppm. That SIPP, after a thorough cybersecurity evaluation, has been approved by another local network operator in Australia gives us a very strong position going forward, comments Jonas Lindholm, CEO of KingHill.
About Essential Energy
Essential Energy’s network consists of 183,099 kilometres of power lines, 1.4 million poles, 139,303 distribution substations and 364 zone transformer stations with one to four transformers. The network covers roughly 90 percent of New South Wales, where Sydney is the largest city.
About Gomero
Gomero Group AB (publ) provides innovative solutions to customers in the energy sector to support sustainable long-term economic growth through system and service development for predictive maintenance — a field with strong global growth. With Gomero’s connected products, sensors, AI and data analytics, maintenance tasks can be performed optimally and increasingly automated.
Gomero’s connected SIPP monitoring equipment has long offered detection of oil leaks from transformers and automatic environmental protection of oil catch basins beneath transformers. For customers this means increased operational reliability, reduced costs and improved opportunities to perform maintenance more efficiently. Gomero’s customers include Ellevio, Vattenfall, Lede Energi, Fingrid, Deutsche Bahn and SA Power Networks.