According to Efacec, FASTapps is a substation-based platform for improving network performance and efficiency through self-healing feeders.
Richard Turner, director of corporate development at El Paso Electric, said: “El Paso Electric is committed to delivering the full benefit of distribution automation to our customers, improving reliability and enabling us to respond more quickly and efficiently during emergency conditions.
“FASTapps and advanced distribution applications from Efacec ACS are a key component of our current smart grid initiatives.”
El Paso Electric has embarked on a smart grid project to implement distribution automation, funded partially through a smart grid stimulus grant agreement signed with DOE in April of this year. The second phase of the project, slated for 2011, will include a distribution management system with feeder automation for the Van Horn region in the company’s Texas service territory.
El Paso Electric is a regional electric utility providing generation, transmission and distribution service to retail and wholesale customers in a 10,000 square mile area of the Rio Grande valley in west Texas and southern New Mexico.
