2026 data shows EVs, heat pumps and residential solar are pushing peak LV transformer loading to almost 200% under aging equipment in some countries.
@Stedin @EnecoNieuws pilots in The Netherlands have targeted local grid usage to manage transformer pressure without requiring immediate hardware upgrades.
Smart meters are a partial solution for loading visibility, but cannot see a thermal event until an outage occurs. Seeing it in real time helps avoid outages, wasted costs and unnecessary capex, freeing money for investment elsewhere.
The screenshot shows one substation. Three traces. All live: Voltage on each of the three phases; Current on each phase and the temperature of each cable phase, in real time (12x per second).
As current climbs, cable temperature climbs right behind it, showing heat track load inside the wire in real time. This curve is the earliest possible warning that a cable is starting to fail, seeing it whilst there is still time to act.
In a single transfomer station in a 12 week period,
#Mondisenergy caught cable overheating at 72°C, over-voltage on all three phases, peaking at 253V, and water flooding, flagging in advance 19 events for action. Multiplied across the network, operations teams become revenue managers and investment facilitators.
Smart meters see the customer endpoint.
#Mondisenergy sees everything upstream - the feeder, the cable, the transformer, the room.
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