Electrotek Concepts, the leading provider of enterprise power quality and distribution fault location system solutions for electric utilities, has developed PQView 4 software that provides utilities with a platform to track and identify abnormal power quality events. PQView 4 offers the most advanced approach to fault detection and characterisation of power quality anomalies on the utility’s distribution system.

PQView is a multi-component software system that builds and analyses databases of power quality and energy measurements. It stores and quickly analyses large quantities of power quality disturbance and steady state measurement data from thousands of utility end points. Fault analysis and location functionality in PQView is enabled via its FaultPoint add-in module. “The PQView platform is rapidly becoming the utility industry standard as it is used by large investor owned utilities and municipal utilities alike. With its new and more expansive feature set, PQView 4 can integrate with most third-party devices and data sources used by utilities to track the health of their distribution systems,” said David Ellis, President and CEO, Global Power Technology (Electrotek parent company).

Christopher Jones, Department Manager, System Design Distribution Engineering at Con Edison, added, "On average, use of the PQView reactance-to-fault methodology for fault location saves us close to one hour per feeder outage restoration job. It can also mitigate the use of capacitive discharge thumpers by providing a better starting point for the fault locating activities.”