Faults caused by storms, wildlife, and vegetation have a big impact on your reliability and costs.
Most of these disturbances are temporary and can be avoided. And with 80% of faults in the distribution system occurring on lateral lines, keeping these faults from becoming sustained outages significantly improves your system performance and your bottom line.
Advanced Fault Protection
S&C’s TripSaver II Cutout-Mounted Recloser boosts reliability and resiliency by leveraging fault-testing at the grid edge.
With 15 kV and 25 kV ratings, this single-phase recloser can swiftly restore power after temporary faults and isolate permanent faults to avoid widespread outages.
Benefits of a Single-Phase Recloser
Elevated Customer Experience
With their extensive reach and volume, lateral lines are essential to delivering power all the way to the edge of the grid. By swiftly reducing outages, TripSaver II reclosers enable utilities to see immediate, dramatic improvements in key performance metrics, including:
- System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI)
- System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI)
- Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index (MAIFI)
- Customer Interruptions (CIs)
- Customer Minutes of Interruption (CMIs)
Cost Savings
By avoiding outages, you'll save your crews and O&M budget from unnecessary and costly truck rolls and fuse replacements. Truck roll costs add up quickly, so a TripSaver II recloser can pay for itself in just a few avoided trips.
Operational Advantages
The TripSaver II recloser enhances utility operations with:
- Easy installation into cutout mountings
- Hundreds of TCC curves for seamless integration and coordination
- Self-powered operation with no communication needed
- Less routine maintenance than oil-based hydraulic interrupters
Discover its innovative features and learn more from customers using TripSaver II reclosers to achieve better performance and savings.
Our strategic deployment of the TripSaver II reclosers has proven to reduce operating costs and improve reliability, bringing benefits both to our customers and stakeholders.