Substations
FirstEnergy Breaks Ground for Electrical Substation in Lorain
FirstEnergy Corp. broke ground today for a substation and associated transmission lines in Lorain, Ohio, designed to support the new arc furnace Republic Steel is building at its Lorain facility....
New PPL Electric Utilities Substation in Moore Township Complete
A $3 million investment to improve electric service reliability in Moore Township, Northampton County, is now complete. ...
New Substation and Transmission Lines Will Enhance Electric Service in Saco, Maine
Central Maine Power Co. is set to energize a new transmission line and substation in Saco, Maine, to increase capacity and to improve reliability for the electric grid in the Saco Bay region. ...
India Awards Alstom Grid Order for EHV 765-kV Circuit Breakers
The Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. has awarded Alstom Grid a contract worth approximately 10 million euros to deliver 64 circuit breakers for various...
Substation Design in the Third Dimension
Designing a substation using old-school techniques eats up labor hours like a 747 sucks up jet fuel. It is just amazing so many companies still subscribe...
Bus Bar Innovation
In 2005, Transpower New Zealand, the transmission system operator and owner of the New Zealand national grid, was faced with the need to expand a site-restricted...
Wired for Success
The smart grid may seem like a high-tech concept of the distant future to some, but Kansas City Power & Light is bringing it into the present with its...
69-kV GIS Switchyard Adds 200 MW for City of Anaheim
The Canyon Power 69-kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) switchyard, a major turnkey GIS project provided by ABB, is now providing unprecedented levels of...
Siemens Opens New Factory in India for Network Automation Components
Siemens Infrastructure & Cities has opened a new manufacturing plant in the state of Goa, India, to produce network automation components. The factory...
Hydro One Awards ABB Substation Order
Hydro One Networks Inc. has awarded ABB a major order to supply an indoor gas-insulated switchgear substation, an outdoor switchyard with air-insulated...
Substation in a Box 2.0
Serving citizens since 1892, the St. Charles Municipal Electric Utility is the third largest in the state of Illinois. Power is delivered to the city's...
PPL Electric Utilities Plans $664 million in 2012 Improvements to Electric Delivery System
PPL Electric Utilities plans $664 million in capital improvements to its electric delivery system that serves central and eastern Pennsylvania in 2012. ...
Tajikistan to Reinforce Electricity Network
Tajikistan National Utility Barki Tajik, has awarded a contract to design and deliver a 500 kV Switchyard Reconstruction Project to the Nurek Hydroelectric Power Plant (Nurek HPP) – the first ever project to use 500 kV Gasinsulated switchgear (GIS) technology in Central Asia. ...
Battery Monitor Pinpoints Failing Cells
By offering a convenient and reliable way of monitoring the voltage of individual cells during storage battery discharge testing, the BVM battery monitor from Megger allows failing cells to be readily located....
Arc Flash Protection Features Upgrades
The ABB Low Voltage Products division has released TVOC-2, a new generation of its Arc Guard System that has been protecting electrical equipment from dangerous electrical arc flashes for more than 35 years....
CL&P Explores Sustainable Solutions
Sustainability is defined as a set of environmental, economic and social conditions in which all of society has the capacity and opportunity to maintain...
Transformer Fire Isolated
The ever-increasing energy demands of the Las Vegas Strip needed a power boost in 2009. Enter the 230/138/12-kV Sinatra substation, which was designed...
PECO Invests More Than $60 Million in New Philadelphia Substation
PECO has invested more than $60 million in the newly-constructed Peltz substation to improve electric service reliability and meet the growing energy needs of customers in portions of Center City and University City in Philadelphia....
Pepco to Make Reliability Upgrades at Buzzard Point Substation
The Potomac Electric Power Co. has filed with the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia a formal notice of its intent to make major reliability improvements to the Buzzard Point Substation....
Dynamic Voltage Control Delivers Every Day
In early 2006, KCP&L executives looked for ways to reduce system peak demand. The distribution automation engineering group proposed a voltage reduction...
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