Gotlands Elnät invests further in Exeri’s smart grid monitoring with IoT sensors

Gotlands Elnät is expanding its digitization of the electric grid and continues the installation of Exeri Smart Grid Surveillance. The system provides continuous digital monitoring of the overhead line network and new opportunities to reduce the downtime for electricity customers.

Gotlands Elnät AB (Geab) operates approx. 7,000 km of electric grid on Sweden's largest island Gotland and supplies electricity to more than 43,000 customers. Geab is owned by Vattenfall, Sweden’s state-owned utility and one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat, together with Region Gotland. The grid operator works continuously and long-term to reduce power outages. Geab is now expanding the Smart Grid Surveillance installation in the grid.

“We installed Smart Grid Surveillance at the beginning of the year and the technology has shown great value. We are now choosing to further expand the digital grid monitoring, which is in line with our strategy to make the grid smarter and reduce downtime for our customers.” says Mikael Hanell, grid operation strategist at Gotlands Elnät AB.

Smart Grid Surveillance (SGS) is an industry-unique Swedish system that consists of smart IoT sensors deployed in the electric grid, which together with advanced AI-based data algorithms provide accurate fault identification. The sensors are mounted quickly (in less than 5 minutes) with the power line in operation. SGS makes it possible to locate faults in the grid in real time and by that avoiding manual inspections of line sections. SGS enables higher reliability in the grid with fewer and shorter power outages and improves economy by digitizing old labor-intensive processes.

"We are very proud to be part of Geab's long-term work with digitization and increased reliability in the electricity grid.” says Elisabeth Johansson, co-founder of Exeri and responsible for delivery projects. "We see that loT technology together with automated data analysis plays an increasingly important role in securing electricity deliveries, both in Sweden and abroad."

Elisabeth Johansson, responsible for delivery projects at Exeri

For more information, please contact:
Mattias Lundborg, Director Marketing & Sales Exeri AB, mattias.lundborg@exeri.se, +46 70-580 57 50
Mikael Hanell, Grid Operation Strategist Gotlands Elnät AB, mikael.hanell@geab.vattenfall.se, +46 498-28 52 91