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Plan B Energy Solutions (PBES) has been awarded a multi-year contract to supply Engineering Support Services to all the BHE Energy companies within their porfolio. This contract is built on the successful support by PBES over the last 5 years with the previous contract.

PBES has been selected as the turn-key project contractor for SWI Thermal / visual camera system installation at the San Francisco Bay DC Converter stations. The project also includes upgrading the vibration monitoring system and DGA equipment maintenance and support.

Plan B Energy Solutions has been selected as the exclusive install, commission, and support channel for all Camlin products in Florida. Plan B Energy Staff have over 20 years DGA experience.

SWI has selected Plan B Energy as  a VAR including installation and commissioning of Monitoring and Diagnostic Camera systems nationwide. PBES has installed camera systems in over 280 substations nationwide.

Plan B Energy has added  substation foundation work  to our porfolio. We have in-house expertice to build concrete pads for transformers and otehr substation apperatus.

Plan B Energy has entered multi-year contract to support FPL's substation build-out needs.

Construction includes installing switches, breakers, arresters and other apparatus.   Plan B Energy offers turnkey upgrades and asset assembly services.  These new services compliment Plan B Energy's transformer asset monitoring and communication products and services, to broaden the overall business support at the substation level. 

Plan B Energy contracted to service FPL's fleet of transformer DGA monitors. Services include supply of He, calibration gasses and major system components. FPL has a current population of over 900 DGA monitors in their network. 

Intelligent data management at the substation yard level!    Asset monitoring devices typically have separate communication paths to the Utility network. Multiple paths through multiple communication architectures. Multiple conduit is run to control houses for connectivity.     

DataMax consolidates asset monitoring intelligence into one stream - and one path!   Multiple devices in and one path out! The external path can be of your choosing as well; Secure APN Cellular, Radio, Fiber, Ethernet...  Data collection is the foundation of all monitoring, DERM systems and AI applications. DataMax’s “One Path” can deliver data to all applications you need to connect with.   Until now there has not been a convenient Multiple paths in / Single path out solution at the yard level. 

Plan B Energy selected to expand the previously installed solar transmission line camera project. (Below: Solar Array Camera System over FirstNet Cellular System | August 19, 2019)   The expansion will employ high resolution station cameras, both thermal and video imaging, from Systems With Intelligence (SWI) and Sierra Wireless IP modems for comms to operations. Separate locations will be combined into one cloud-based viewing and alarming interface provided by SWI. Functionality is supported on multiple operating systems.

Plan B Energy has established a VAR relationship with H2Scan. PBES now offers turnkey purchase and installation of the PBS-H2 Hydrogen sensor. Gridscan chip-based technology uses palladium-nickel alloys with an advanced proprietary materials coating to protect the sensor, enabling it to measure hydrogen in oil or gas phase of power transformers and ancillary equipment. This solid-state sensing element is hydrogen specific, insensitive to other transformer gases and can be immersed directly in the transformer oil during normal operation to measure hydrogen levels continuously. 

The PBS-H2 platform has no consumable components or any degradation of the sensor, does not require carrier or calibration gases to maintain accuracy and has a theoretically unlimited useful life.

Plan B Energy Solutions developed a portable camera system for emergency applications. The system employs 4 fixed cameras installed at 14 feet from the foundation control box. The system communicates camera data via cellular modem to the cloud application.  The system has battery backup options for up to 7 days functionality. The initial contract was for delivery of 24 systems.

Plan B Energy was awarded the FPL annual contract to install between 7 to 14 cameras with broadband backhaul at multiple substations. This is "phase II" of the project and was awarded after the successful completion of 82 sites in 2021. The Camera system incorporates cloud-based support.

Plan B energy Solutions awarded contract to install 2800 UbiGrid Tilt and Vibration Monitors. (TVM) enables utilities to manage critical utility pole assets, providing data on pole tilt and movement, as well as impact and vibration levels. TVM gives grid operators a full view of utility pole fleets, enabling remote identification of structural pole.

Plan B energy Solutions introduces a portable DGA cart based on the Serveron TM8 instrument. Communication can be through various wireless mediums such as Cellular or Radio. The mobile cart has pneumatic tires for ease of movement within a gravel yard and flexible oil lines for easy connection to a transformer. PBES also offers turnkey delivery, installation and maintenance of the entire system

Plan B energy Solutions awarded contract to do complete installation of 68 DGA monitors for FPL including foundation, high wind impact stands and end-to-end communications. This is the 3rd year of contract DGA installs 

Our client needed to see transmission towers and lines from a remote location.  Our solution was a Solar powered system employing both thermal and video imaging from SWI with a Sierra Wireless IP modem for comms to operations