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Category 'Power Substation' - Technical Articles

Category “Power Substation” is dedicated to technical articles about a subsidiary station of an electricity generation, transmission and distribution system where voltage is transformed from high to low or the reverse using transformers. This also includes primary and secondary distribution, substation installation, testing and commissioning, erection and other important topics.

Power Substation

Blind Spots in Power Plant Commissioning: What You’re Overlooking

Commissioning of a power plant or an industrial plant is not that simple, on contrary, it’s full of hidden traps and logical challenges. In power plants, the generating units are substantial operational blocks, tested individually alongside the water or fuel…...

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Oct 06, 2025 | By

Blind Spots in Power Plant Commissioning: What You’re Overlooking
Energy and Power

Top Issues that Seriously Worry Substation Designers

Technology development has gone mad. Everything is automated, what’s needed and what’s not needed, and that’s definitely not good. Substation equipment, especially secondary systems, becomes obsolete and hard to maintain in a very short time. The main question is how… Read more

Sep 29, 2025 | By

Top Issues that Seriously Worry Substation Designers
Power Substation

New Substation Technologies You Should Know About

The design of substations is to deliver a cost-effective solution that, to the extent feasible, exhibits high availability, reliability, and operational flexibility. This rule applies to both newly constructed and 40-year-old substations from a utility standpoint. Although this is feasible,…...

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New Substation Technologies You Should Know About
Power Substation

Substation Safety and Switching Rules You MUST Follow

This technical article describes the safety rules the switching operator must comply with when undertaking switching, and providing access for others required to work on the electrical network. We’ll describe the critical matters relating to safe switching operations, it is…...

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Aug 25, 2025 | By

Substation Safety and Switching Rules You MUST Follow
Power Substation

Thumb Rules for Working in Switchyard and HV Areas

To be honest, working at switchyards and substations requires a thorough and true understanding of hazards and control measures before progressing to Power System Access. Only individuals with the proper authorization should operate within switchyards or high voltage zones. Engineers… Read more

Aug 18, 2025 | By

Thumb Rules for Working in Switchyard and HV Areas
Power Substation

Checks for Successful Substation Factory Acceptance Testing

This technical article will go over various aspects of factory acceptance testing (FAT) for custom prefabricated power substation and its related electrical components (such as MV and LV switchgear, MV-LV Motor Control Centre (MCC), UPS systems, AC/DC auxuliary power supply…...

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Aug 11, 2025 | By

Checks for Successful Substation Factory Acceptance Testing
Energy and Power

How to estimate transformer performance and characteristics

Assuming that you have a general understanding of transformer parameters and IEC Standards in use, this technical article is aimed at providing a variety of tools and data to make an educated assessment of the principal transformer performance ratings. Derived…...

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How to estimate transformer performance and characteristics
High Voltage

What to expect from an old GIS, and what are the options for support and life extension

Every new GIS switchgear eventually gets old and obsolete at the end of its lifetime. Problems with GIS, as with every other switchgear type, typically start after the midpoint of the lifecycle. This is the point at which the end…...

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Jun 30, 2025 | By

What to expect from an old GIS and what are the options for support and life extension
Power Substation

Best Practice in Substation Oil Containment

Numerous firms in emerging sectors offer conceptual substation oil containment solutions that remain unproven yet have been deployed. This has resulted in several installations of containment systems that are functionally ineffective. There have been and continue to be assertions that… Read more

Jun 23, 2025 | By

Best Practice in Substation Oil Containment
Energy and Power

Loading issue that seriously affects transformer operation

Before its on-site installation and commissioning, a transformer has been designed and tested to a particular specification or standard. In real life, a transformer must adapt to a number of variations from the standard operational criteria set down in these…...

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Loading issue that seriously affects transformer operation


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