GE’s Digital Energy business is offering series compensation capabilities to three of SP Power Systems facilities in southern Scotland, helping the utility meet and mitigate the complex technical grid challenges.
GE’s series compensation solution enables the broader initiative of the European Union’s target to integrate more than 15 percent renewable generation into their portfolio mix.
The updates to Scottish Power’s network will continue to allow power to flow seamlessly from northern Scotland into England.
GE and Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) will provide installation, commissioning and maintenance of series compensation banks with SSR filters at Scottish Power’s Moffat (400-kilovolt, 560-MVAr), Gretna (400-kilovolt, 560-MVAr) and Eccles 1 and 2 (400-kilovolt, 442-MVAr each) substations.
These series capacitor banks with SSR filters will provide Scottish Power, part of the Iberdrola Group, a cost-effective method to increase power transfer across its long transmission lines, the company said.
“Our priority is to provide a safe, reliable and efficient transmission network to benefit all of our customers,” said Mike Young, series compensation program manager, Scottish Power. ”We believe that GE offers the best technical solution and meets the stringent safety and environmental requirements of our project.”
The scope of the project also includes detailed studies and analysis from GE’s Energy Consulting business for the design and application of the SSR filters. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2015.
Bob Turko, general manager, power systems, GE’s Digital Energy business, said, “This project reinforces our industry-leading series compensation system utilizing SSR mitigation filters, demonstrating GE’s strong technical capability and reestablishing its focus in the European sector.”