The power to help during an emergency
The power to help during an emergency
- The Challenge
Getting power to a utility’s consumers after fire causes outage
- The Solution
A two-wave high voltage power plan, that was quick and flexible
- The Impact
Consumers got power
Client:Western Power Distribution (WPD)
Location:Grantham, UK
Sectors:Utilities
The challenge
Quickly restore power to consumers then support repair
More than 13,000 customers were without power after one of WPD’s transformers caught fire. The fire was in the compound and the debris and heat also damaged the neighbouring secondary transformer that was being maintained at the time.
WPD needed power up quickly, then support while it repaired the transformer and brought it back online.
10 MVAGenerators
11kVHigh voltage power package
13,000Customers in the Grantham area
