Metal thieves pillage French wind turbines

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A sophisticated network of metal thieves has targeted some 20 French wind turbines in a new looting trend, scaling the near 40-metre-high structures and stealing up to one tonne of metal from a single engine, Le Figaro reported Wednesday.

Citing an anonymous police source, the daily newspaper said the ring stole metal from wind farms in sparsely populated areas, where they had less chance of being caught.

“They cut the power to turn off the engine propeller motor,” the officer said, noting the thieves broke through the doors at the bottom of the turbines, before using the stairs to reach the engine which is located at the top – often as high as 40 metres off the ground. “By using bolt cutters and makeshift tools they then cut and ripped out the whole metal wiring, which is mostly made of copper,” he said.

The officer said a metal raid of a single wind turbine engine could amount to as much as one tonne of loot. One tonne of copper is estimated to be worth around 4,500 euros on the  market.

But the officer said the thieves take great risks, since their modus operandi means they’re stuck within the turbines for several minutes during the raids, with no alternative exits to the bottom door.

According to Le Figaro, at least 20 such incidents have been recorded recently. Two successful raids and one foiled attempt were reported in March alone.

In response to the escalated number of raids, turbine operators have installed video surveillance systems, while police have begun patrolling particularly large wind farms with helicopters equipped with cameras.

“If it’s not a national problem yet, it’s soon going to become one” an unnamed investigator told the newspaper.

Between 2012 and 2013, the number of reported metal theft cases in France rose by almost 18 percent, from 11,811 to 13,923. Copper made up 65 percent of the stolen metal.

Source: France24

New partnership with Briggs & Forrester group

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Cresatech announce a new strategic investment and partnership with Briggs & Forrester group, in a deal which could result in Briggs & Forrester acquiring up to 22% of Cresatech.

Briggs & Forrester is one of the UK’s leading building services engineering companies with a turnover of over £170m ($260m). Their reputation has been achieved through a high quality, results orientated approach combined with today’s growing emphasis on energy efficiency, energy conservation and other environmental issues. The group provides a range of specialist skills encompassing engineering, design, installation and maintenance to commercial and industrial customers. The combined experience, knowledge and expertise of the group has enabled it to develop and implement fully-integrated solutions for some of the most complex and demanding mechanical, electrical and public health engineering installations.

Cresatech specialises in the provision of monitoring technology to the commercial, industrial and utility sectors. Our award winning product, CuTS®, is a unique patented system for monitoring the integrity of critical grounding infrastructure. It is a valuable tool in ensuring the safety, security and efficient operation of substation sites and is now in use with utility companies in the UK and the USA. In addition, InSight is a solution designed for commercial and industrial environments that continuously monitors single and three phase electricity supply, providing valuable data on usage and supply quality. The system allows customers to achieve significant savings by benchmarking their own usage and efficiency as well as measuring the quality of the supply delivered by the electricity distribution network operator (DNO).  The monitoring service is delivered through a secure cloud based platform which provides rich data and reporting to customers via web browser and automated alerts that can be easily configured to customer requirements.

Cresatech CuTS Named 2015 Energy Innovation Finalist

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Cresatech CuTS ZM® Named 2015 UK Energy Innovation Award Finalist

Cresatech CuTS® platform recognized in “Best Safety Innovation Technology” category by distinguished panel of judges
London, UK- April 14, 2015., the industry leader in innovative substation safety at the world’s largest electric utilities, rail and telecommunications providers, announced today that it was named a finalist in the 2015 UK Energy Innovation Awards for “Best Safety Innovation Technology.” The shortlist was released by the Energy Innovation Centre (EIC) earlier this month and winners will be awarded during a ceremony in Manchester on April 30, 2015.

“We are honored to be shortlisted for one of the most competitive categories in the 2015 UK Energy Innovation Awards – Safety”, commented Cresatech CEO Simon Nash. “CuTS ZM is rapidly establishing itself as the technology of choice for utilities in monitoring substation grounding infrastructure. Our technology not only allows rapid resolution of outages due to loss of grounding integrity, but more importantly can prevent otherwise undetected problems becoming potential disasters in the transmission and delivery network. We are excited to see early adoption of CuTS ZM, and its recognition as a developing critical technology for utilities worldwide.”

“The volume and quality of award entries we receive are always good indicators of how well the energy sector is keeping up with the pace of innovation and this year has been particularly encouraging,” said Denise Massey, Managing Director at the Energy Innovation Centre. “I’ve been struck by the number of ideas and technologies being developed within both the national and global SME communities, and also by the contribution of the energy companies and Ofgem in the growth of these SMEs at a time when there is little alternative investment available to them.”
With an exceptionally high number of entries in each of this year’s extended list of 14 categories, entry figures overall are up 43% on 2014.

The shortlist includes over 62 innovative technologies, projects and firms from across the electricity, gas and offshore renewables sectors.
Senior level industry leaders met to judge the submissions this year. The judges included:

  • Mark Horsley, CEO of Northern Gas Networks
  • John Morea, CEO of Scotia Gas Networks plc
  • Denise Massey, Managing Director at the Energy Innovation Centre
  • James Stacey, Head of Sustainability at Earth Capital Partners
  • Nick Smailes, Lead Technologist at Energy Systems, Innovate UK
  • Steve Edwards, Head of Regulation at Wales & West Utilities Ltd

To learn more about these awards, visit UK Energy Innovation Centre website.

About Cresatech

Cresatech CuTS® is a sensing technology that monitors your site infrastructure 24 hours a day. Its active monitoring provides alerts and other information directly to your operations team whenever the monitored infrastructure becomes compromised, whether through theft or damage.
The unique patented technology was sponsored by, and developed in collaboration with the electricity distribution industry as a direct response to the lack of appropriate technology available. As a result, it is the only technology capable of delivering the operational, safety and risk mitigation benefits demanded by the industry. It has been developed as a cost effective solution which is capable of wide deployment across networks.

Catherine Fulton
Business Development
+1 720 441 9936
cfulton@cresatech.com

Simon Nash, New Cresatech CEO

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Cresatech, today announced the following changes to its executive management team in order to support of its next phase of growth:

Paul Mumford steps down from the role of Chief Executive Officer with effect from 20th April 2015. He will remain on the board and take up a new role of New Market Development Director, with responsibility for broadening Cresatech’s commercial base into new markets.

Simon Nash takes up the role of CEO and will be responsible for growing the core business. Simon takes on the role after serving two years as the group CFO.

Simon Jarvis continues in the role of CTO, leading the development of Cresatech’s products and services offering

Simon Nash, said, “Paul has done a tremendous job as a founder of the company and has been instrumental in securing its early commercial success in core markets.  I am delighted to be taking on the challenge of leading the business through its next phase of growth.”

John Wybrew, Chairman, commented, “These management changes constitute an important shift in our strategy following the successful development and trials in collaboration with the industry. We have started to build a strong core business in the electricity sector and I am confident that Simon will be a driving force behind our next stage of growth.  At the same time, it is also critical that we extend Cresatech’s reach for its products and services into new markets and Paul has both the experience and skillset required to build the foundations for our future success in these areas.”

About Cresatech

Cresatech is the recognised leader in safety and outage management monitoring technology for grounding infrastructure.  Its active 24/7 monitoring solution provide alerts and other information directly to the network operator’s operations team whenever the monitored infrastructure becomes compromised through theft or damage.  Its unique patented technology was sponsored by, and developed in collaboration with the electricity distribution industry as a direct response to the lack of appropriate technology available. As a result, it is the only technology capable of delivering the operational, safety and risk mitigation benefits demanded by the industry.

Distributech Themes

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Cresatech business development Catherine Fulton attended Distributech as a delegate and attended the lectures, panels and keynotes alongside energy industry professionals.

Integration and smart aggregation were themes, along with smart metering and what seemed to be the most popular topic- cyber security. Helen Whittaker from BC Hydro presented one of the best discussions on the event. Big impacts were with drones and functional mobile apps. Cresatech had good friends in the exhibition hall, most notably Embedded Logix, who are making a big splash in the energy industry with their smart data integration for substation security. Learn more about Helen here.

Up next for Cresatech is the UK Metal Theft Summit 2/25 @ Scottish Fire and Rescue ServiceTraining Centre, Cambuslang G72 7NA.

Cresatech CuTS® Copper Theft Detection Delivers First Look at the European Utility Week Innovation Hub

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Amsterdam, NE Next week kicks off one the biggest events in energy and utilities-European Utility Week http://www.european-utility-week.com/visit.

Cresatech CuTS® www.cresatech.com has been rolling out with new to market copper theft detection technology in the U.K. and U.S. with favorable results. There is a strong outlook for CuTS® proprietary sensing device. Metal theft is a worldwide problem. CuTS® is an innovative system designed to protect and monitor service environments where safety and continuity are paramount.
The solution provides immediate notification of the disconnection, removal or disturbance of site grounding or other power infrastructure. As a result, it is a highly effective tool in the battle against copper theft – minimising the operational, service and safety impact of theft on critical service networks.
The CuTS® product family encompasses a number of applications and variants to enable monitoring of metallic infrastructure at risk from removal. The most popular product is CuTS® ZM, which is a completely scalable solution, capable of monitoring large sites such as electrical substations, where the grounding infrastructure is extensive both in area and complexity.

he implementation of CuTS® ground infrastructure monitoring technology divides the site into a number of individual monitoring zones. This allows the detection of the removal of grounding material from all areas of such sites and provides more accurate location details of the alarm event.
With mounting interest in CuTS® ZM, Cresatech Advisor and industry expert Brian Shewan and Product Manager Iain Warner will be available at European Utility Week to answer both industry and engineering questions from the marketplace. Find Cresatech in the Innovation Hub.
European Utility Week Attendees Contact

Iain Warner
iwarner@cresatech.com
Brian Shewan
bshewan@cresatech.com
Corporate Media Interview Sales
Catherine Fulton
Cresatech Business Development
cfulton@cresatech.com

Western United Electric Contracts Cresatech CuTS® Copper Theft Detection

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Publicly owned energy distributor Western United Electric now offers new to market technology that detects substation copper theft as is happens. CuTS® from Cresatech, Inc. is proprietary sensing technology that detects changes in substation grounding infrastructure as the theft occurs.

October 29, 2014
Denver, Colorado

Western United Electric Supply Corporation (WUE) is a member-owned not-for-profit electric utility wholesale supplier. Their members and customers are rural electric cooperatives, municipal electric utilities, investor owned electric utilities and electric utility contractors located in a seven state Rocky Mountain region.

Cresatech specializes in technology and service solutions that address high cost, high impact operational issues within power transmission & distribution, mobile telecoms, transport and other critical service markets. Our innovative products monitor exposed service sites and infrastructure in a variety of complex operational environments, providing real time monitoring for service interruption and disruption due to removal of copper grounding and other power delivery infrastructure.

Prime targets for copper theft are rural substations that often have little security or safety measures installed. WUE customers are rural energy providers and likely to benefit from CuTS® technology. The new partnership compliments the extensive WUE Line Card.

Sales Inquiries and Technology
Western United Electric
www.wue.coop
303-598-7104
customerservice@wue.coop

Media and Interviews
Catherine Fulton
720-441-9936
cfulton@cresatech.com

Application of Cresatech CuTS® ZM for Substations

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Application of the Cresatech CuTS® system to tackle the safety and service risks caused by removal/theft of grounding material on substation sites.

The worldwide metal theft epidemic has significant impact in many service environments. This impact on safety and service provision is particularly acute in the Electrical Transmission and Distribution industry.  While theft of valuable metals causes inconvenience and financial loss in most environments, we are regularly reminded of the consequential damage, power losses, fires, death and injury to both public and power company employees associated with metal theft from electrical networks.

The attraction of substations for theft is well known; the presence of large quantities of high-value copper used to ground infrastructure, which is seen as an easy, low risk target.  While this is often the case, the grounding network is not always so benign, as is too often demonstrated through severe injury or worse.  To combat this activity, network operators have deployed many types of security solutions.  Such solutions either aim to stop access to site (e.g. fences, locks), detect a perpetrator on site (e.g. movement sensors, cameras) or identify the perpetrator after the event (e.g. DNA dyes, cable etching).

These solutions are applied on substation sites commensurate with the size and criticality of the site, with large core transmission sites often having comprehensive camera and movement sensor systems. Due to their numbers, small distribution sites are often limited to fences and locks to prevent access.   All these approaches are complementary and can be effective in their specific purpose, though the more costly technologies can have limited deployment due to cost.  Substations are physically complex environments and often provide a challenging environment for the more active of these solutions.While the majority of these solutions serve a specific and useful purpose, they do not detect whether the most regularly recurring event has actually happened: removal of material from the grounding infrastructure.  Since this event makes a substation inherently unsafe, detection is imperative.   The CuTS® system was developed at the request of electrical network operators that, having researched available technologies, could not find a practical and cost effective solution. The design brief for CuTS® that resulted can be summarised as follows:

  • Real time detection and notification of removal of grounding materials
  • Practical deployment methodology that does not disrupt service delivery
  • Suitable for deployment on old and new sites alike
  • Suitable for deployment on small and large substations
  • Minimal false alarms
  • Does not compromise site grounding grid/safety
  • Cost effective asset: both capital cost  and lifetime costs
  • Difficult to circumvent

Working from this design brief, the CuTS® system was funded by and developed in collaboration with the industry, both in the UK and the USA.  The resulting system is now being deployed in both markets.

The theft

A typical substation theft usually starts with the easy to remove copper connections between the grounded grid under the substation and the equipment and supporting physical infrastructure above ground. Whether steel or reinforced concrete is used for physical support of bus bars, insulators and other site elements, the tapes or cables to the underground grid provide the grounding connection. Some thefts stop at the removal of much of these easy-to-harvest connections on a site. This renders large parts of the site ungrounded.   While these are not expensive to replace, their removal renders the site unsafe.

However, many theft events are more comprehensive and the perpetrators move on to more difficult to reach or more challenging infrastructure, which takes time to steal and can cause significant damage. Thieves are often very knowledgeable and know the areas of danger to avoid. Less informed perpetrators will try to harvest cable right up to insulators that support HV bus-bars, often resulting in severe burns or fatalities.  Another trend is that of removal of the grounding grid approximately 18 inches/450mm under the surface.  After digging down to the grid, hooks are attached to the grounding, the other end of the cable to a vehicle, and as much of the material is hauled out of the ground as they can manage.  While this has varying degrees of success in terms of material removed, it does cause significant damage.

At larger substations where there are more security resources deployed, removal of material presents more of a challenge due to movement sensors and thermal cameras, though the more effective of these systems can only be deployed at large sites due to cost.  Again, some perpetrators seem remarkably well informed and manage to harvest areas of the site where detection is less likely.  A large transmission site that had a significant number of up-to-date cameras and other security resources had more than 40% of its grounding connections removed over a period of time, prior to detection through chance sighting of the damage by security staff (will take two years to re-instate).  While the appropriate layers of security for a site can make the theft more difficult to carry out, organised groups continue to carry out damaging raids.

The resulting safety and damage risk

The primary concern raised by copper grounding theft is safety implications. An unsafe site is a danger to the network operators’ personnel, the public and customers at the power delivery points. There are regular reports of substation grounding theft causing power related damage and sometimes fires at customer sites, not just at the substation.

The grounding infrastructure is designed to manage and dissipate faults, both minor and major, and high energy events such as lightning strikes to both lines and the substation itself. When all exposed metal work and equipment is grounded correctly and the grounding grid in place as designed for that specific substation, touch potentials are at safe levels and fault routes operate correctly and have the capacity to manage extreme events.  Grounding design and analysis is a complex science and removal of even a part of the grounding infrastructure can have unexpected results.

Most operators have had multiple theft incidents of varying seriousness. Unfortunately a lot of substation engineers have been injured or worse over the years by walking onto sites that have had grounding removed. While awareness is high now and walk round inspections prior to entry common, the more organised perpetrators are careful to steal where visual detection is unlikely so that the maximum material can be harvested from a site over time. While visual inspection does detect the more obvious theft, monitoring of the grounded infrastructure itself is necessary to reduce the risk further.  Whether the equipment whose grounding is compromised is a transformer, an automatic or manual switch or other typical site plant, the risks to personnel are clear.

The safety risk to the perpetrators is a less popular discussion, but a liability risk nonetheless, dependent on the country in which the crime is committed.  In most countries it is accepted that the operator should do all it reasonably can to protect the criminals from themselves, though this can be difficult to achieve in reality.  A fast response once the issue is detected is a significant step forward. While risk to personnel safety is well understood, there are many examples where theft at the substation has caused unstable or faulty power delivery. In rare circumstances this can be dangerous for customers, due to high voltages and/or currents and the possible fires that result (e.g. domestic appliances).  While these occurrences are not common, they are a real risk which requires swift action upon detection of the grounding theft at the substation.  When they do occur, these events can be quite widespread and the damage and resulting compensation quite costly.

While the safety of people is primary, the resulting potential for damage to operational equipment on and off site is also of concern. While damage usually does not occur upon removal of grounding from a transformer or switch, a voltage imbalance or other fault can stress equipment and cause a fault immediately or over a period of time.  Equally a high energy event such as a lightning strike can cause significant widespread damage if the substation equipment is not grounded.

When assessing the costs of a theft event, often only the cost of the copper and its replacement costs are taken into account. The real and potential safety and damage risks and hence costs are variable, but occasionally far higher. Upon assessment of these safety risks and service related costs, the return on investment on roll out is generally between two to four years.

Utilising the CuTS® system to detect and alert upon substation grounding theft as it happens

The CuTS® system, models ZM and ZS were specifically developed in collaboration with the industry for the task of detecting and alerting to grounding theft activity on small and large substations.  The primary purpose of the CuTS® system is to help mitigate the safety and operational risks that result from this activity. While it does provide a real time alarm upon such theft activity, its security function is secondary to its capability of notifying an operator when a sites’ safety has been compromised.

The CuTS® system detects removal of material by monitoring for slight but steady changes in inductance of the site grounding infrastructure.  This technique is used for its environmental stability and for its minimal cabling required on the site for installation.  Since substations have complex grounding infrastructures, the CuTS® methodology breaks a substation into detection zones. This is required so that the slight inductance changes that occur upon grounding removal do not get diluted beyond detectability through looking at too much infrastructure with one sensor.

Very small substations can be monitored with a CuTS®ZS single zone unit. This comprises a single zone card, identical to a ZM zone card.  Usually one, maximum two sense wires are distributed to each zone, depending on the topology of the site, ensuring minimal installation work.In conclusion, the ubiquitous safety and service continuity issues generated by site grounding theft have driven power network operators requirements for a cost effective method of detecting such theft activity as it happens.  Any approach considered has to be suitable for wide network deployment at both large and small substation sites, since existing protection systems do not alert to theft unless virtually all grounding from site is removed, which is rarely the case. The aim is to alert as theft events occur, so safety and service risks can be mitigated in the most suitable and effective manner.   Occurrences of undetected theft at transmission sites through to pole transformers have been responsible for some of the worst safety scenarios for operators and public alike, and have been the cause some of the most damaging and public service interruption events.  The scale and cost of undetected theft has led to the development of the CuTS® Solution.

Cresatech U.S.A. Office:  1 303 221 9033

cfulton@cresatech.com

 

 

The hazards of undetected copper theft on a substation.

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At Cresatech, our business is copper theft detection. This story from San Francisco last year illustrates the hazards of undetected copper theft on a substation.

It can be expensive to do, but the cost of doing nothing is worse than the cost of doing this.

Investigators noted “experienced thieves” (look for a discussion on the types of copper thieves in a later article) only stole $100 worth of copper.

It would be considered pretty-theft and relatively simple to repair. In this case, however, the actual copper theft wasn’t the major problem. What happened when the theft went undetected could have been tragic. After some U.C. Berkley buildings lost power and explosion erupted. Onlookers could see flames two stories high. Fortunately, only minor injuries were reported.

It is noted that energy companies are frustrated with the ongoing copper theft, and until recently there has been little strategy and no investment to solve the problem. When the founders of Cresatech CuTS® began beta testing, the goal was to develop technology that would meet many ideals. CuTS® suite has many talking points- minimal false positives, low cost, easily deployed- but the most important may be real time alerting.

As substation copper theft struggles in the marketplace are ongoing, demand for CuTS® products are growing to protect assets but more often now, as a security investment and capital improvement.

Case Study
San Francisco, CA
Obtober 2013

CBS News

Cresatech FierceEnergy Award, Judges Panel Announced

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Cresatech recognized for leadership innovation in Outage Management Services

Denver, CO – Cresatech announced today that it has been recognized by this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Energy Edition, a unique industry awards program powered by the publishers of FierceEnergy and FierceSmartGrid. Cresatech received top honors in the “Outage Management Services” category.

Cresatech recognized for leadership innovation in Outage Management Services
October 2, 2014

Judges evaluated submissions based on technology innovation, financial impact, market validation, ability to integrate into existing network environments, and end-user customer experience.

Cresatech is being recognized for its industry-leading and innovative product, CuTS®, which provides power network operators with realtime notification of the removal of substation grounding material.

“Cresatech’s suite of products and services greatly improve safety and efficiency in electrical distribution networks,” explained Paul Mumford, CEO of Cresatech. “We are working with power transmission and distribution companies in North America and Europe to address the safety and operational impacts of infrastructure theft and damage, both in substations and elsewhere within the delivery network. We have created solutions that are truly needed in distribution, are cost effective and provide valuable tools to allow energy companies, to deliver the most reliable and efficient energy available to their marketplace.”
Winners were selected by an exclusive panel of judges which included: Kevin Dasso, Director of Technology and Information Strategy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Lisa Davidson, Director of Customer Programs, San Diego Gas & Electric; Conrad Eustis, Director Retail Technology Strategy, Portland General Electric; Robert B. Frazier, Director of Electric Technology, CenterPoint Energy; Stuart Laval, Manager of Technology Development, Duke Energy; Bryan J. Olnick, Vice President of Distribution Operations in Power Delivery, Florida Power & Light; and Joseph E. Svachula, Vice President of Smart Grid and Technology, Commonwealth Edison.

Cresatech was thrilled with the award news. Paul continued, “This award is a testament to the innovation of our CuTS® technology. We are minimizing the vulnerabilities of energy distribution substations, and mitigating potentially disastrous risks for the operating company. It was an honor to receive the award amongst such a great group of peers. Energy technology is evolving and it’s exciting to be a part of this innovative industry.”

CRESATECH specializes in technology and service solutions that address high cost, high impact operational issues within power transmission & distribution, mobile telecoms, transport and other critical service markets. Our innovative products monitor exposed service sites and infrastructure in a variety of complex operational environments, providing real time monitoring for service interruption and disruption due to removal of copper grounding and other power delivery infrastructure. In combination with our Advantage services, our solutions provide meaningful network wide status and service delivery information, driving improved levels of customer service, reduced site safety risk and reduction of field engineering costs.

To learn more about Cresatech, visit www.cresatech.com
http://www.linkedin.com/company/cresatech-limited

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About Cresatech
Established in London in 2011, Cresatech develops monitoring technologies and services for use in challenging operational environments such as electricity distribution, mobile telecoms and transportation. Our innovative products and services provide real time monitoring of such operational sites exposed to infrastructure removal and damage, and can be extended to deliver service delivery status intelligence within electrical distribution networks.

Cresatech now has two group companies covering Europe and North America, based in the UK and in Colorado respectively.
The executive team have a wealth of experience in the electricity and technology sectors and the group is supported by a non-exec and advisory board that brings experience from across the energy sector, including government advisory and regulatory as well as previous board roles in public energy companies.