New Products, New Tutorials and New Trade Shows!
We have a full quarter of news and announcements coming up over the next few months, all designed to help
our customers better manage their assets and safety programs in 2025.
Jeff Donato, Sales Director of Safety Products, was again in the field, this time in London at the Energy
Storage Summit. It is exciting to see how Europe embraces the role of large-scale Battery Energy Storage
in modern grids and the potential new partnerships possible with H2scan.
H2scan also published a blog in February about the challenging network of battery room safety regulations
in Europe, Ensuring
Battery Room Safety in Europe: Navigating Standards and Best Practices. If you’re looking for
advice on battery and area room safety anywhere in the world, H2scan is your first stop.
H2scan has been proactive in helping utilities monitor the condition of their transformers. Now, we’re
also reaching out to manufacturing industries to help them understand how Hydrogen DGA monitoring
improves and provides insight into the health of their transformer fleet. Hydrogen DGA measurement is a
critical tool for production facilities seeking to ensure continuous power production, reduce downtime
and improve plant safety. Read more in two of our newest blogs, Understanding
Electric Asset Impact on Industrial Safety and The
Value of Measuring Hydrogen: Why Early Detection Matters for Transformer Health.
We are launching four new products at the DISTRIBUTECH trade show on March 25. Three are
new versions of our popular GRIDSCAN® 5000 hydrogen sensor technology designed for the
more demanding single gas (hydrogen) transformer monitoring applications. The fourth new
product, HY-VAULT is a revolutionary method for monitoring the health of network
transformers. While vault transformers act as the heart of power in urban areas, their
location and design has always made it challenging to assess their health, creating
power security and urban safety hazards. Look for our announcements here.
One of the challenges related to hydrogen as a fuel source is the amount of energy used in the
electrolysis process. An exciting first step is seeing green hydrogen successfully implemented on a
large scale. A location in Scotland holds that honor, with the world’s first green hydrogen shore power
at the Port
of Leith, that country’s largest enclosed deep-water port.
When we see new technology in a fast growth pattern, we all wait for the bubble to burst. However, that
doesn’t seem to be the case for Artificial Intelligence, of course. AI is now already embedded across so
many industries, and its growth is expected to triple in
the next three years. The AI explosion has implications far beyond the technology sector, of
course, as the power industry is moving rapidly to find ways to support the massive grid demands AI will
place on an electrification system already struggling to keep pace. Hydrogen sensing will play a
critical role in safely deploying new structures and facilities to power the growth of AI.
The lead time for new transformers has doubled
to 120 weeks. We are now seeing new companies entering or expanding their transformer
manufacturing efforts. Events such as supply chain issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise in data
centers, and the increasing electrification worldwide have all contributed to the shortage
problem, with one transformer manufacturing facility even reporting a 5-year wait time for new
orders. Extending the life of the installed based has never been more important, and H2scan plays a
large part in solving that challenge for grid operators.
Which of these is considered a key gas?
a) Carbon dioxide (CO2)
b) Oxygen (O2)
c) Hydrogen (H2)
d) Nitrogen (N2)
We’re hoping you know the answer to this! If you haven’t tested your hydrogen knowledge lately or want to
brush up on some basics, now’s the time! Click here to go directly to our industry quiz. It takes just a
few minutes but can point out areas that might need a refresher.
Get more from your T&D transformers with a visit to the H2scan Booth 5252 at DISTRIBUTECH
International 2025. See how our sensors integrate with transmission and distribution technologies, old
and new alike. Discover how our solutions boost safety and reliability in power delivery, smart grids
and renewable integration with the industry’s premier key-gas (hydrogen) detection for transformer
fleets. Join us March 24-27 in Dallas to explore the intersection of hydrogen detection and advanced
T&D systems, powering a safer and more reliable energy future!
Learn more here.
Join us at The Electrical Network Systems Conference. This annual electrical utility-based conference
offers attendees the opportunity to learn about industry safety, equipment, maintenance, relays and
communications, and best practices. See how H2scan’s new HY-VAULT™ integrates into new and legacy
network transformers, solving what has now been a technical barrier to an economic vault transformer
monitoring solution.
Learn more here.
Keeping with a long tradition of in-person technical conferences and symposia, the Houston Analysis
Committee holds a conference and exposition focusing on analysis and measurement in the chemical
processing industries. In the tradition of similar technical conferences, this event will highlight
relevant new papers on grab sampling, sample handling systems, data analysis and process analyzers such
as gas chromatographs, spectrometers and analytical sensors. H2scan will showcase our new range of
intrinsically safe Hydrogen analyzers, delivering next-generation performance and functionality to our
long-standing customer community.
Learn more here.