During the last quarter of 2008, Efacec received important orders from Romanian companies, CEZ Romania and E-ON Moldova, through its business partner in Romania Eximprod, for the supply of power distribution networks management and automation systems.

Both companies are responsible for power distribution in Romania: CEZ Romania in seven districts of the Valáquia Region, in the south-eastern Romania; E-ON Moldova in six districts of Moldova Region, in the north-eastern Romania.

The contracts that were signed with CEZ Romania, foresee the supply of substation automation systems, integrating BCU 500 bay control units, as well as TPU 420 protection relays, by Efacec, for CEZ’s secondary distribution substations.

The contract that was signed with E-ON Moldova, foresee the supply of a SCADA system for distribution network automation. The system will be based on the CLP 500 platform, integrating the HMI 500 human machine interface.

These important orders strengthen the Efacec presence in Romania, and demonstrate how these companies rely on our systems and solutions, since these are the first orders made by CEZ and E-ON for Efacec.

The Efacec Automation business unit received a set of orders for the supply of substation automation systems for Brazil, within the scope of contracts concluded between Efacec do Brazil and COELCE and BANDEIRANTE Brazilian companies.

COELCE is an Endesa group power distribution company, responsible for the supply of electric power to more than de 2.5 million clients, in the north-eastern region of Brazil.

BANDEIRANTE is an Energias do Brasil group power distribution and sub-transmission company, responsible for the supply of electric power to around 1.5 million clients, in the São Paulo State.

The systems to be supplied are based on a distributed architecture, supported by the CLP 500SCC supervision, command, control and protection platform.

The supplies for COELCE refer to new substations:
- Schincariol, 69 kV
- Independência, 69/13.8 kV
- Massapê, 69/13.8 kV
- Mondubim, 69/13.8 kV
- Juazeiro do Norte, 69/13.8 kV
- Trairí, 69/13.8 kV

The supplies for BANDEIRANTE refer to three new substations, as well as to the extension of two existing substations:
- Pedreira, 88/13.8 kV
- Araretama, 88/13.8 kV
- Guararema, 88/13.8 kV
- José Centro, voltage level extension of 13.8 kV
- Suzano, voltage level extension of 13.8 kV

This set of projects is recognized as a sign of trust, by COELCE and BANDEIRANTE Brazilian companies relatively to Efacec, as a result of its experience, high competitiveness and high quality of the developed solutions within the scope of substation automation systems, already installed by Efacec in those companies, during the last years.

Efacec received a set of orders from MEW (Ministry of Electricity and Water, Bahrain), through its business partner Cruickshanks (from the United Kingdom), for the supply of integrated control systems for three substations of Northern Town BSP (66/11 kV), Shamal Tabreed Al Marfa City Tee (66/11 kV) and Janoob Tabreed Al Marfa City Tee (66/11 kV).

The scope of supply of Efacec for each substation includes an automation system based on CLP 500SCC, integrating protection relays from third parties.

This order confirms the preference of MEW for Efacec products, supplied through Cruickshanks, a Scottish engineering company, our partner in Bahrain.

Efacec received an order from GRTE (Sonelgaz Transport de l’Electricité, Algeria), through its business partner FORCLUM (France), for the extension of the Saida transmission substation (220/60/30 kV).

The Efacec’s scope of supply for this transmission substation comprises a substation automation system, based on the CLP 500SCC platform, integrating a protection system and a centralized oscillography system, both of third parties.

This substation extension includes the following new bays:
- 2 transformers of 220/60 kV
- 2 transformer incomings 220/60 kV
- 1 transformer of 60/30 kV
- 3 lines of 60 kV

This order is considered as an important reference of substation automation systems supplied by Efacec for GRTE, in the area of power transmission. It’s worth mentioning that Efacec has already supplied several solutions for GRTE, in the scope of remote control and automation of transmission substations.