A project lead by the TANESCO & Odit-e
The Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) is focused since 1964 on electricity generation, electricity transmission, electricity distribution and sale of electricity to the Tanzanian mainland and bulk power supply to the island of Zanzibar.
By digitizing low-voltage networks, Odit-e helps distribution managers to improve LV network operation and planning by leveraging data from smart meters. The solution optimizes asset management, integration of renewable energies and loss reduction.
“The data collected from the smart meters will enable us to build a digital model and use it to implement innovative services such as deep grid analysis, a tool to locate and quantify non-technical losses and a simulation software to estimate PV hosting capacity” says Luc Richaud, Project Manager at Odit-e, a technology specialist in low-voltage network digitization.
Context
Low voltage distribution networks are not monitored neither remotely operated. The planning for reinforcing and modernizing is based on the presumed wear and tear of the assets, theoretical load curves, basic tools. This implies high safety coefficients.
However, low voltage networks represent 70% of the assets and generate 50% of the operating costs.
Tanesco, the Tanzanian public power company is keen to improve energy efficiency through grid digitization enabled by smart meters deployment.
Objectives
In Moshi, in the north-east of Tanzania, Odit-e’s artificial intelligence module for smart metering systems will provide Tanesco with insights into the blind spots in their low-voltage network.
Activities
Odit-e’s AI module enables the Distribution System Operators to leverage the data generated by smart meters regardless of the meters’ vendor and communication technology used. After an initial test period in Moshi, it is hoped that the smart metering system along with Odit-e’s AI module be installed on other Tanesco sites nationwide.
