The investment programme over the next two years will see new electrical equipment installed across the city, including new, innovative devices to restore power to SSEN’s customers should faults occur.
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Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ (SSEN) substation, located on Great Northern Road in Woodside, is now a vibrant feature of the area following a partnership between Kittybrewster School pupils, older members of the local community and London-based Artmongers.
Aberdeen substation transformed Read More »
Substation monitoring has been an area of interest amongst distribution network operators (DNOs) for some time, as the way consumers use and interact with the network changes due to the relatively rapid growth of photovoltaic installations, electric vehicles, domestic-level battery storage and so on. Before these relatively new technologies were widely adopted, it was sufficient to manually record a reading from an analogue maximum demand indicator during a physical inspection once or twice a year, but this is no longer considered sufficient by many in the industry who are now interested in annual and diurnal patterns, harmonics and more.
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Clean air day quietly came and went this summer, buried in political drama. It’s over a year since air quality in the UK was declared “unlawful” yet the public health crisis continues.
Accelerating the EV revolution Read More »
The energy landscape today is undergoing significant transformation as distribution network operators (DNOs) continue making the transition towards distribution system operators (DSOs). Led by widespread growth of distributed generation – including 27.0GW of installed rooftop solar capacity globally in 2017(1) – along with battery storage, electric vehicles (EVs), and other forms of distributed energy resources (DERs), DSOs face significant changes to the traditional energy delivery model. Coupled with an evolving regulatory framework, in order to continue to provide safe, reliable, and affordable grid services, DSOs are looking at new, modern approaches to safely connect, model, manage and optimise customer DERs within the overall network.
A platform-based approach to distribution operations Read More »
The new agreement between the two firms will enable the execution of large turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects for electrical substations. It combines ABB’s track record in power transmission and distribution technology delivery with Fluor’s expertise in delivering EPC projects.
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A microgrid is a small scale electric grid that combines power from distributed energy generation sources such as combined heat and power plants, diesel- and gas-powered gensets and renewable sources with batteries. The microgrid provides the overall control to coordinate these resources to meet the requirements of industrial, residential or consumer loads. Microgrids can either function off-grid, or connected to the main power grid. The ability of microgrids to seamlessly separate themselves from the main grid, in the event of a potential grid fault or emergency, is an increasingly important feature.
ABB and Rolls-Royce announce global microgrids cooperation Read More »
ABB’s new containerised microgrid solution groups a range of existing products to achieve a “plug and play” module which can support the optimisation of renewables and isolation of communities or businesses from the national grid during planned or unplanned power outages.
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The firm has supplied a containerised microgrid solution to support a gas-fired power station to optimise and automate its operations, increase energy efficiency, reduce fossil fuel consumption and enable uninterrupted power supply from Alinta Energy’s Newman Power Station, which supplies mining operations in the Pilbara.
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The contract to connect two wind farms in the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea is the first use of the HVDC technology, already deployed to connect international interconnectors to the UK grid, in the UK’s offshore wind market.
ABB to connect offshore wind with HVDC in UK first Read More »
