Profotec: Digital transformers

2022: Optical Transformer Implementation Plan for 40 Digital Substations

Innovative optical transformers from the resident of the Technopolice Moscow SEZ of Profotec will be introduced at 40 Russian energy facilities by the end of 2025. This was reported on February 17, 2022 in Technopolice Moscow.

"Resident of the Moscow Economic Zone" Profotec "is a manufacturer of optical electronic current and voltage transformers in Russia. The company has invested more than 108 million rubles in its project on the territory of the SEZ, more than 60 specialists work at the enterprise. The company's optical transformers will be introduced at 40 power grid facilities by the end of 2025, work is underway to determine specific points of implementation, " said Alexander Prokhorov head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow complex of economic policy and property and land relations

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The substation renovation program assumes that the devices will be installed at the facilities of the main and distribution networks, including 15 substations with a voltage level of 220 kilovolts and 25 substations of 110 kilovolts. Profotec optical transformers are already operating at the Tobol and Uvat substations in Siberia, as well as the first North digital substation in the Arctic.

For full-scale introduction of transformers over the country the Profotek company received 300 million rubles on expansion of production within venture financing from fondaVEB ВЭБ.РФ group Ventures. The money will be used to scale sales, increase production capacity, expand the product line, conduct R&D.

Since 2018, Profotec has been part of the cluster microelectronics and optics of the Technopolice Moscow SEZ, where it occupies more than 2.7 thousand square meters at the Pechatniki site. Convenience of location, modern infrastructure and preferences of the status of a resident of a special economic zone helped the enterprise reach production volumes of up to 100 million rubles in the first three quarters of 2021. Among the products of Profotec are fiber-optic current measuring transformers and electronic voltage transformers designed to replace traditional models at energy enterprises. They are in demand not only in Russia, but also world in - products are actively supplied to various countries Europe countries and America, " specified the general director of the SEZ "Technopolis' Moscow '" Gennady Dogtev

2019: Agreement on the supply of transformers to the Middle East

The Moscow company Profotec will begin supplying complex solutions using Digital Substation technology for Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia. This was announced on August 26, 2019 in the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow. The company certifies its products for the countries of the Middle East, as well as implements pilot projects and will open a service center in the region.

JSC "Profotec" and "Nano Imports General Trading" (UAE) entered into a distribution agreement for a period of three years with the possibility of further extension.

The company's products are the source of primary digital measurements, opening the way to digitalization in the energy sector, the key to building digital substations. The creation of digital substations is the main and most promising trend in the modern electric power industry.

In the near future, we are talking about pilot deliveries of several million dollars, according to the results of pilot implementations, we expect multiple growth. We plan to occupy a market share in the Middle East region of about 25-30 percent in this niche, "said Oleg Rudakov, CEO of Profotek.

Optical transformers - as of August 2019, this is an advanced class of equipment that uses fundamentally different physical principles and technologies. Interest in such equipment is due to high accuracy and extended range of measurements, stable operation in a wide temperature range, as well as reduced maintenance costs. The results of operation show the superiority of digital measuring transformers over traditional ones due to the lack of magnetic saturation, stable operation under conditions of short-circuit currents and increased fire safety.