Monthly Archives: June 2020

Breaker Upgrade With Switchgear Relaying

Amped I recently completed design work for the upgrade of an existing 12kV substation consisting of 41 switchgear cubicles. The project involved installation of 30 new cubicles and 11 new cubicle doors which will upgrade the existing substation to a microprocessor based intelligent substation. Additional design work includes SCADA, AC, and DC upgrades as well…

Intelligent/Smart Substation Upgrade Program

Amped I designed and engineered P&C for four intelligent substations that were IEC61850 compliant. Each substation had all new relaying with redundant fibers, new batteries, new ATO and a DNP connection to the fire protection system. Schemes included time programmed tripping, load shedding and auto bus tie closing. All of the new relaying was SEL relays along…