Turkey’s official electricity transmission body, TEIAS, is revamping the country’s power grid with thousands of ABB MV embedded pole parts – complete with embedded vacuum interrupters for rapid and easy circuit breaker construction.
TEIAS is working with a long-standing ABB OEM partner, Ankara-based Astor A.S. Transformator, which meets IEC standards and the highest classifications on electrical and mechanical insurance, as well as capacitive current rating.
It means that in the last 60 months some 10 percent of Turkey’s outdated SF6 gas insulated breakers have already been upgraded with an accelerated target of 80 percent and 10,000 circuit breakers to be overhauled by 2030.
This vacuum transition is helping Turkey align with its European neighbors who have pledged to cut overall F-gas emissions by two-thirds by 2030.
ABB’s P6 VG6-S-K Embedded Pole parts proved ideal for Turkey’s predominantly 36kV network, which previously used only assembled pole parts. However, embedded pole technology provides peak dielectrical behavior in the switching device and optimum protection against environmental influences like dust and humidity.
