Transformer Technologies Live Online Forum
Transformer Technologies Today
Innovation, Efficiency, and Resilience
Live Online Event Hosted By Electricity Today T&D Magazine.
This Electricity Today Magazine Live Online Forum introduces the latest developments in transformer technologies that support the safe, reliable, and efficient delivery of electrical power. As essential components in transmission and distribution systems, transformers play a central role in grid performance. This session highlights how modern design, advanced materials, improved monitoring, and performance optimization are helping the grid adapt to renewable energy, stability needs, and more sustainable operation.
This free event features a series of 45 minute, non commercial technical presentations designed for utility engineers, substation operators, and industry professionals. Attendees will gain practical insights into digitalization, predictive maintenance, environmental sustainability, and emerging technologies that are shaping transformer performance across an increasingly complex grid.
You do not need to attend live. Simply register and you will receive a recording link and presentation PDF for on demand learning.
Agenda
45 minutes presentation includes 10 minutes of Q&A.
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Dynamic Ratings
Metadata: The Key to Understanding the Condition of Your Assets
Online condition monitoring technologies capture historical data that provide insight into the behavior of assets and their constituent components while in operation. Analyzing this behavior enables diagnostic techniques to assess the condition of transformers and circuit breakers.
Many asset owners who have successfully implemented monitoring strategies have accumulated vast amounts of valuable data on fleet behavior. This information allows them to classify assets, set priorities for repair or rectification of minor issues, plan refurbishment or replacement, and determine the availability and need for spare units.
Structural metadata documents relationships within and among assets through elements such as links to related components. Properly managing this data is critical to identifying limiting factors that may impede asset management plans and is ultimately essential to the success of an overall asset management strategy.
Key data quality attributes include:
- Completeness: Are all required records and fields present?
- Timeliness: Is the data current (online versus periodic data)?
- Validity: Does the data conform to formatting and domain rules (e.g., age cannot be a negative value)?
- Consistency: Can related records be compared without conflict?
- Accuracy: Does the data accurately reflect the condition being recorded?
- Uniqueness: Is the data recorded without unnecessary duplication? For example, are measured or calculated values from IEDs or sensors consistent under comparable operating conditions?
Examples will be presented to demonstrate the practical value of a metadata-driven approach.
Join us to explore how to better understand the data coming from your online monitoring systems—what can be monitored, why it matters, and how it contributes to an initial and evolving understanding of equipment condition.
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
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4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
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Presenters
Brian Sparling
Senior Transformer Technical Advisor
Dynamic Ratings
Brian Sparling, a Life Senior member of IEEE, is the Senior Transformer Technical Advisor with Kinectrics of Toronto. Brian has over 20 years of experience in the field of power and distribution transformers. For the past 32 years, he has been involved in all aspects of monitoring, diagnostics, and condition assessment of power transformers. He has authored and co-authored more than 37 technical papers on various topics dealing with monitoring and diagnostics of transformers. He has contributed to many guides and standards with the Canadian Electricity Association, IEEE Transformers Committee, and the Cigré A2 Transformers Committee.
