The 34.5-kV bus, circuit breakers and other equipment is housed indoors in a climate-controlled building. Distribution system planners live in a weather-normalized Brigadoon sort of world that exists ...
A major earthquake revealed the need for a 500-kV substation’s bus work to be flexible to minimize seismic damage. Craig Riker, San Diego Gas & Electric Co., and Scott Howard, WRK Engineers Inc. On ...