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Substation Technician
Substation Technician A substation Technician performs predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance, and operation of equipment in distribution, transmission and generation...Read more
Substation Technician A substation Technician performs predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance, and operation of equipment in distribution, transmission and generation...Read more
HV Commissioning Engineers/Technician
A Power Station Commissioning Electrical Engineer does the following when being involved in the construction of a new Power Station:
They oversee all commissioning activities and the start up of equipment and plant. The commissioning engineer will also be responsible for analysing commissioning procedures and instructions. They will need to identify who should be [...]
A day in the life of a Project Engineer
My responsibilities as a project engineer changes dynamically between two disciplines during the project life cycle, one of Project Engineering and Project Management .and involves both office and site work activities.
My day as a project engineer changes everyday depending on the project phase since different skills are [...]
Transmission Lines
Transmission lines carry electric energy from one point to another in an electric power system. They can carry alternating current or direct current or a system can be a combination of both. Also, electric current can be carried by either overhead or underground lines. The main characteristics that distinguish transmission lines from distribution lines [...]
A typical power generation, transmission and distribution system has these components: Power Generation Plants, Substations, Transmission Line and Distribution systems.
Underground distribution substations are also located near to the end-users. Distribution substation transformers change the subtransmission voltage to lower levels for use by end-users. Typical distribution voltages vary from 19,920 volts to 2400 volts.
It is a large encased group of metal plates about the size of a small house with 2 sets of insulated copper wires wrapped around the plates -an input and output – to convert a very high transmission supply line voltage – maybe 44 thousand volts to a lower voltage of 2200 volts that runs [...]
A distribution substation transfers power from the transmission system to the distribution system of a location. It is not viable to connect normal consumers directly to the high voltage of the main transmission network, unless they use large amounts of power like the mines or large factories. This is where the distribution substation comes into [...]
Transmission substation: Where you connect two or more transmission lines you would use a transmission substation.
In a very basic situation you would have two transmission lines with the same voltage. In such a situation the transmission substation contains high voltage switches that allow lines to be isolated or connected for maintenance or fault clearance.
A transmission [...]
Electrical Substation
Basic Description of a Substation:
A substation is a high-voltage electric system facility. It is used to switch generators, equipment, and circuits or lines in and out of a system. It also is used to change AC voltages from one level to another, and/or change alternating current to direct current or direct current to alternating [...]