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Protecting a power plant with a safety system that goes beyond industry standard.

Every day, the demand for power grows. Increasing the demands on electricity suppliers to maintain quality and service while addressing that need.

Producing high-quality renewable power. And keeping outage times low.

In Europe, there’s a leading utility company that embraces that challenge. They’re striving to maintain the quality of supply at internationally recognized levels with low outage times. To that end, they’re heavily invested in developing concepts and systems that optimize the security of the power flow. Protecting the equipment and people around it. Eaton is right there with them.

Safety is a top priority. Eaton’s Arcon system is a solution that enables more security than the usual standard. Because of its potentially devastating impact on the power supply and the potential dangers to personnel, the company wanted to minimize the risk of arc flash incidents. By protecting their operations with Eaton’s Arcon arc fault protection system, they chose an active safety solution from a global technology leader.

Eaton utility industry solutions: From generation to transmission, distribution and point of use, Eaton helps you power the world.

ARCON Arc Fault Protection System

When simply mitigating arc flash energy isn’t enough.

The Arcon system goes beyond mitigating arc flash energy by actually preventing the initial arc flash from happening. In less than two milliseconds, the Arcon solution detects, evaluates and extinguishes energy before an arc flash can occur. Minimizing damage to switchgear. Cutting costs. And virtually eliminating injury to personnel.

It’s a power-hungry world. By offering best-in-class solutions like the Arcon system, Eaton provides the world’s utilities with the means to manage and distribute power safely. Thanks to Eaton, this utility is more than ready for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Arc faults still occur in electrical energy distribution systems – regardless of all the preliminary protective measures. Eaton’s Arcon system helps prevent the extremely serious effects and the damage caused by these events.

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