GCC INTERCONNECTION AUTHORITY
“ We are looking forward to creating a GCC power market with all six member states participating ”
– Ahmed Ali Al-Ebrahim on the spot , logging in on laptops or handheld devices . In the early days , an outage had to be checked manually , now it is electronically identified and quickly fixed .
“ The people in the control centre can have a real time view of what ’ s happening . We are utilising lots of modern smart technologies , like drones that fly above the overhead line with a camera and can pinpoint the problem , and infrared cameras to detect any kind of hotspot .
“ On-line diagnostics can also pinpoint the site of faults on 100s of kilometre of overhead lines to be within few hundred meters . That really speeds up attendance of any faults and repairs . Delivery of a reliable supply in 2009 saw the achievement
48 December 2015