Recognised technology and market leader in the field of substation technologies
Industries and utilities are under extreme pressure to meet consumer and regulatory demand for high quality energy supply at competitive prices while lowering environmental impact. As the recognised leader in the substation market, ABB provides optimised economical and technical turnkey solutions for all substation requirements.
With direct access to ABB’s technology-leading range of high voltage and medium voltage equipment, we are able to provide market leading technological solutions to the conflicting demands of reliability, performance, cost and environmental impact.
CASE STUDY
ABB installs $13.5 million Hope Downs substation
ABB is installing a $13.5 million full turnkey substation for Rio Tinto. The Hope Downs substation will provide power to a new iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The project delivers a 220/33 kV substation and 33kV switchgear, and includes primary and secondary design, supply of all primary and secondary products,
civil construction, electrical construction and commissioning of the substation as a completed ABB integrated solution.
ABB is supplying all the HV products and all protection and control systems: the 220 kV circuit breakers are supplied from Sweden and the 220/33 kV 45/55 MVA transformer is supplied from the ABB factory in Bangkok, Thailand. ABB has performed all functions of the turnkey supply of this project as well as being responsible for all commissioning. This includes both Factory Acceptance Testing of protection and control panels in the factory and full primary and secondary commissioning on site after complete equipment installation.
This is the fifth full turnkey substation installation that ABB has been involved with for Hamersley Iron in the Pilbara region.
Did you know?
ABB, together with Hamersley Iron, is in the process of implementing the latest IEC 61850 substation technology at Juna Downs. The 220kV substation will be a key node in the Hamersley Iron 220kV transmission system, improving power supply reliability to major iron ore mine sites in the north west of Western Australia.
Innovation
The new global IEC 61850 standard for communication in substations brings open, interoperable systems and flexible architectures to the substation automation domain, making it easier for various substation automation devices such as protection relays and bay controllers, as well as their engineering tools, to exchange data.
ABB has taken a leading role in the elaboration, implementation and verification of this standard and is the first manufacturer to achieve official Conformance Test Center status. The certification authorises ABB's System Verification and Validation Center in Baden, Switzerland, to perform IEC 61850 Conformance Testing in accordance with the UCA International Users Group’s Quality Assurance Testing Program Procedures.
Did you know?
ABB is the world market leader for turnkey substations. Since 1900 we have delivered over 5500 substations rated up to 800kV.