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2009-11-19ABB celebrates landmark power technology - HVDC Light turns 10!

2009-11-06Paper presented at the IPST conference in Kyoto, Japan, June 2-6, 2009
Testing firing pulse controls for a VSC based HVDC scheme with a real time timestep < 3 μs. (Pdf, 0,20 MB)

Paper presented at Cigré, SC B4 2009 Colloquium in Bergen, Norway, June 6 th - 11th, 2009
Valhall re-development project, Power from shore. (Pdf, 0,37 MB)

Paper presented at the 6th Southern Africa Regional Conference, in Cape Town, South Africa, August 17-21, 2009
Upgrade of the Apollo HVDC converter station (Pdf, 0,40 MB)

Papers presented at the 16th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering, Cape Town, South Africa, 24 - 28 August, 2009
Paper presented at the Nordic Wind Power Conference 2009, on Bornholm, Denmark, Sept. 10-11, 2009
Challenges on the road to an offshore HVDC grid (Pdf, 0,35 MB)

Paper presented at the European Offshore Wind Conference 2009, in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 14-16, 2009
HVDC Light cables for long distance grid connection (Pdf, 1,34 MB)

2009-10-21Google Earth link for two converter station in China added in View HVDC converter stations from space

2009-09-11BorWin1: A new animation with film sequences from each part of the execution was added. The link is under "Films about HVDC Light".

2009-09-04Google Earth link Sharyland back-to-back, TX, USA added in View HVDC converter stations from space

2009-07-30Google Earth link for three converter station in Canada added in View HVDC converter stations from space

2009-07-29A new project added: Rio Madeira in Brazil.

BorWin1 - Pictures and the customer's log book from the installation of the platform in the North Sea have been added.

2009-07-12Google Earth link for Kolwesi converter station in Congo added in View HVDC converter stations from space

2009-06-0810 new Google Earth links for converter stations in Sweden and Norway added in View HVDC converter stations from space

2009-05-28Photos and animation of the BorWin1 project, formerly known as NordE.ON 1, were added to the project page.

Paper presented at the PowerCon 2008, New Delhi, India, October 12-15, 2008: Case Study of a Multi-Infeed HVDC System (pdf, 0,67 MB)

Paper presented at the SC B5 Colloquium in Madrid, Spain, Oct. 15-20, 2007: Problems and solutions for AC transmission line protection under severe conditions caused by very long HVDC cables (pdf, 0,17 MB)

2009-03-29New project added: East West Interconnector, Ireland - Wales, UK

2009-03-12Paper presented at Second International Symposium on Standards for Ultra High Voltage Transmission, New Delhi, India, 29 - 30 Jan, 2009: 800 kV UHVDC . From Test Station to Project Execution

2009-02-20New brochures and station guides added:

Under HVDC Classic brochures
  • HVDC Classic Reference list (updated)
  • Brochure Xiangjiaba-Shanghai (new)
  • Brochure Cahora Bassa, Apollo Upgrade (new)
  • Guide: Cahora Bassa, Apollo station (new)
  • Guide: Norned, Feda station (new)

Under HVDC Light brochures
  • Brochure Caprivi Link Interconnector (new)
  • Guide: Valhall, Lista station (new)

2009-02-06New Google Earth links for two converter stations added in View HVDC converter stations from space

2009-01-16Paper presented at AEIT HVDC Workshop, Rome, Italy, Nov 27, 2008:
SAPEI HVDC CONVERTERS

Paper presented at IEEE Energy 2030, Atlanta, GA , USA, 17-18 November, 2008: AC Grid with Embedded VSC-HVDC for Secure and Efficient Power Delivery

Paper presented at CEPSI, Macao, China, October 27-30, 2008:
800 kV HVDC Alternative Scenarios for long distance bulk power transmission

Paper presented at: 2008 IEEE-PES General meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 20-24, 2008: VSC-HVDC Control and Application in Meshed AC Networks

2009-01-08New articles in ABB Review 4/2008:
- The future is now (On on the HVDC Light link NordE.ON 1, Germany)
- HVDC, ABB - from pioneer to world leader (pdf, 0,46 MB) ( An update of two articles published in ABB Review 4/2003)

2008-12-16New upgrade project added: Intermountain HVDC transmission to be upgraded to 2,400 MW

2008-10-21Paper Presented at POWERCON 2008 & 2008 IEEE Power India Conference, New Delhi, India, Oct. 12-15, 2008: Challenges with Multi-Terminal UHVDC Transmissions

2008-10-17Link from the Sharyland 150 MW Back-to-Back Asynchronous Tie project page to an article

2008-09-17Paper Presented at CIGRE 2008, Paris, France, Aug. 24 -29, 2008: Measurement of Radio Frequency Interference from High Voltage Substations Backgrounds and Considerations for Future Emission Requirements (pdf, 0,44 MB)

2008-08-20Paper presented at PSCC 2008, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14-18, 2008:A new Approach for Modeling Complex Power System

2008-07-03Paper presented at the EWEC Conference in Brussels, Belgium, March 31st, 2008: Key notes at the IEEE - PESC 2008 conference on Rhodes, Greece, June 15th, 2008 Articles on:

2008-06-25The book on HVDC Light - Its time to connect (pdf, 3.61 MB) has been updated. This new revision has been updated with recent development and projects.

2008-06-18New project added: Hulunbeir-Liaoning, China.

2008-06-09New Google Earth links for nine converter stations added in View HVDC converter stations from space

2008-05-13New project added: Fenno-Skan 2

2008-05-08New project added: Lingbao II (Extension project)

Papers presented at the IEEE PES T&D conference in Chicago, USA, April 21-24, 2008
Paper presented at the DRPT 2008 conference in Nannjing, China, April 6-9, 2008
Economic Assessment of HVDC Project in Deregulated Energy Markets (pdf, 0,38 MB)

2008-04-14New upgrade project added - Châteauguay back-to-back upgrade

2008-03-27New images added:

2008-02-22Photo of the new outdoor valves at the Apollo station of Cahora Bassa HVDC transmission

Paper presented at the CSEE (Chinese society for electrical engineering) annual meeting in DongGuan, China on November 19-21, 2007 Paper presented at the ICPS 2007 (International Conference on Power Systems) in Bangalore, India on Dec 12-14, 2007:

2008-01-25Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Power T&D Technology in Guanzhou, Cina, November 10-12, 2007:
- Reliability Enhancement of HVDC Transmission by Standardization of Thyristor Valves and Valve Testing (pdf, 0,19 MB)

All the below papers are available on the UHVDC page.

Papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Power T&D Technology in Guanzhou, Cina, November 10-12, 2007:
  • The Reliability Study of the Statistical Method on Insulator Dimensioning of (U)HVDC Lines with Regard to Pollution Conditions
  • Experience from first 800 kV UHVDC long-term test installation

Paper presented at the XIX SNPTEE in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 14-17, 2007 - in Portugese:
  • Considerações sobre transmissão à longa distancia EAT-CC e CA, com novos desenvolvimentos das tecnologias.

Papers presented at IEC/CIGRÉ Symposium on Ultra High Voltage in Beijing, China, July 17-21, 2007:
  • 800 kV DC: External insulation, insulation coordination, test levels
  • Six inch thyristors for UHVDC


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