Case Study: AENA restores airport power reliability with Ampacimon's Partial Discharge Monitoring

AENA restores power reliability with Ampacimon after detecting 10 cable faults in 9 months

AENA, the manager of Madrid-Barajas Airport, faced a critical challenge after a one-hour blackout caused by a cable insulation failure. To prevent future incidents, AENA worked with Ampacimon and utilized its BlueBox Technology for Partial Discharge (PD) Monitoring to assess the condition of their critical power cable infrastructure.

Ampacimon implemented a continuous monitoring system on a key 45 kV cable. This solution successfully identified multiple dangerous PD sources that had been missed by initial commissioning tests. The data provided by Ampacimon allowed AENA to perform targeted repairs, which were verified to have eliminated the PD activity, thereby restoring and ensuring the power reliability essential for one of Europe's busiest airports.

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