Advanced Solutions for Reducing Wildfire Risk

To address the focus in our industry on reducing wildfire risk, this webinar offers information on two strategies—enhanced system protection and system hardening.

Learn how you can use SEL distribution control products to enhance your system protection and to reduce the likelihood of wildfires. SEL technological advancements, such as downed conductor detection, adaptive reclosing, and fast fault-clearing schemes, help utilities balance system reliability with fire risk reduction.

The G&W recloser provides system hardening to help create a more robust, fire-resistant grid. We review how flashover mitigation solutions, transitioning overhead circuits to underground, and site-ready reclosers can help with wildfire challenges.

Topics include the following:

• SEL-651R Advanced Recloser Control with Arc Sense technology for high-impedance fault detection
• SEL-FT50 and SEL-FR12 Fault Transmitter and Receiver System for enhanced protection
• G&W Viper’s dead tank construction, increased phase spacing, and higher-rated insulators for reduced flashovers