Conference Agenda

Session

B3-5: EHV & UHV AC and DC Substation Topics

Time:

Wednesday, 01/Oct/2025:

10:30am - 12:15pm

Location: Room 520E

Session Topics:

B3 Substations and electrical installations

Presentations

10:30am - 10:45am

Development of 1,000 kV Substation Equipment and Technological Advancements in Japan through Demonstration and Verification Test

Yuki ISHIKAWA¹, Masataka SHUGO¹, Shigeyuki TSUKAO¹, Toshiyuki SAIDA², Yukiyasu SHIRASAKA³, Kenji SASAMORI⁴, Yoshitake KAI⁵

¹TEPCO Power Grid, Inc., Japan; ²Toshiba energy systems & solutions Co.; ³The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan; ⁴Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; ⁵NGK INSULATORS, LTD.

10:45am - 11:00am

“Revolutionizing Substation Monitoring: Design and Development of AI integrated Autonomous Mobile Robot for Power Substation Inspection and Monitoring”

Pradeep Singh Chauhan¹, Anirudha Bhattacharjee², Nayan Jyoti Baishya², Bishakh Bhattacharya²

¹Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Gurgaon, India; ²Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

11:00am - 11:15am

Challenge of High Ground Potential Rise in Transmission Substations having High Ground Fault Levels and Solving Approach

Aslam Khan

Hydro One Networks Inc., Canada

11:15am - 11:30am

Auxiliary Power System Design Approach for HVDC Converter Stations

Frida Ceja Gomez, Daljit Dev

AtkinsRealis, Canada

11:30am - 11:45am

Design concepts for compact air insulated substations

Maurizio Albano¹, A. Manu Haddad¹, Muhammad Shaban², Mark Waldron²

¹Cardiff University, United Kingdom; ²National Grid, United Kingdom

11:45am - 12:00pm

Seismic qualification of cylindrical electrical equipment in UHV substations

Sheng Li

University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, People's Republic of

12:00pm - 12:15pm

Substation EHV/HV transformer circuit layout optimized for lightning protection

Nkululeko Mazibuko

National Transmission Company South Africa, South Africa

12:15pm - 12:30pm

Predictive Power Flow Simulator for SCADA Systems—A Real-World Implementation

Asim AKHTAR, Hiren GAGNANI, Orion WHEELER, Abdel Rahman KHATIB

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., United States of America

12:30pm - 12:45pm

Off-Load Bus Splitter arrangement in 400 kV Double Main Bus Bar Scheme to mitigate complete disruption of power supply during breakdown/repair

Brijesh YADAV, Arti YADAV, Kuleshwar SAHU, A.K. DIXIT

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., India