Liander most reliable and sustainable grid operator thanks t

Liander most reliable and sustainable grid operator thanks to great anticipation 10 years ago

Group 9

WCM maintenance

Lisanne Saes

Menno van Oeveren

Bauke Jansens

Joost van Boven

Bas Dekkers

dominating the world on the field of sustainable life cycle management

22-8-2024

Asset Life Cycle Management approach great succes

Dankzij de enorme input van de WCM summer school in 2014 heeft Liander toentertijd een geweldige beslissing genomen in het vervangen van alle transformatoren van voor 1970. Het gestructureerde plan om de overige transformatoren gelijkelijk te vervangen door de Amarfe transformatoren blijkt nu zijn vruchten af te werpen. Vrijwel alle edele metalen zijn inmiddels uit onze aardbodem verdwenen, aluminium is wel nog voorradig. Dit is gunstig voor de bedrijfsvoering van Liander omdat hierdoor de in 2014 ingezette standaardisatie toepasbaar blijft.

Second, they expanded their decision making model on when to replace transformers with economic and sustainability aspects. And third, they used asset life cycle management in a decision matrix for making decisions on which type transformer to use.

Liander decided three years ago on three new improvements, making them the most reliable and sustainable grid operator. First, they did research on using electric vehicles for storage to avoid load-carrying capacity problems.

Electric vehicles as battery of the grid to lower peak loads

Influencing the load to avoid load-carrying capacity problems.

Peaks in electricity demands became higher, causing problems for the load-carrying capacity of transformers. Instead of replacing all transformers for new transformers with

higher load-carrying

capacity, Liander started already in 2014 with research on influencing the load. By using electric vehicles for storage Liander avoided huge investments.

New decision making model replacing transformers

Asset Life Cycle

Management

Using Asset Life Cycle Management in a decision matrix helps Liander in making choices on which transformer to use. Instead of only looking from a technical and economic

perspective, they also start looking from commercial, compliance and organization perspectives.

Breda 2024.

Until 2014 Liander only looked at technical aspects in decided whether a transformer needed to be replaced.

By expanding their technical oriented decision model with economical, sustainable and organizational aspects Liander now makes solid decisions on when to replace distribution transformers.

New strategy for Life Cycle & RAMS/LCC management at Alliander

Alliander is planning to use Life Cycle & RAMS/LCC management to support society in its transition to sustainable forms of energy. This will help to save an estimated 50 polar beer each year thanks to a decrease of CO2 pollution. To help the transformation to the new strategy they copied the golden rules of NedTrain:

Proper configuration management

Operational Excellence in maintenance execution

Insight in asset performance

Monitoring relevant data

Continuous evaluation and improvement

Reliability engineering on the work floor

Next steps in diagnose and Real Time Monitoring

Maintenance Engineering makes connections

Alliander estimates that the new strategy is implemented before the World Class Maintenance Summer school 2015.