Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) gas is largely used as a dielectric and insulating material in the transmission and distribution equipment.
SF6 has demonstrated its effectiveness as dielectric material to insulate both high and medium voltage components enabling compact dimensions and footprint reduction.
Furthermore, SF6 properties include:
These properties have allowed SF6 to replace oil and air insulation as the preferred interrupting medium increasing reliability in operation.
Unfortunately, SF6 is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas with a GWP approximately 24,000 times that of CO2.
The challenge is aimed at finding alternative solutions to the use of SF6 gas as an insulating and/or interrupting medium within MV and HV equipment.
In particular, Enel is interested to identify environmentally acceptable alternatives to SF6 gas for the following equipment:
Concurring in our Challenge you should take in consideration the following Technical requirements/properties:
What can we do to resolve this problem following an approach Open, Innovative and Sustainable?
All questions related to this RFP Process should be directed to: globalinsfrastructurenetworks@enel.com
Explain your proposal in english, attach documents if needed and support the idea focusing on the following key drivers:
The proposals will be admitted until October 15th, 2018 and the evaluation will start after this date.
In the Annex “CSA innovationbyvendors” you can find the complete Regulation of the Challenge, that you will accept once you submit your solution to this challenge.
An Enel technical panel will evaluate the response using the following criteria:
Once suitable proposals will be identified Enel will reserve the opportunity to assign a direct contract to one or more than one Supplier regarding the following activities:
By submitting a response, you acknowledge that Enel reserves the sole and absolute right and discretion to select for award all, some, or none of the responses received for this announcement. Enel also may choose to select only specific tasks within a proposal for award. Enel has the sole and absolute discretion to determine all award amounts. Enel will contact respondents with highly responsive proposals for next steps.