The restricted space on the enclosed site makes it ideally suited as one of the first UK projects to take advantage of ABB’s innovative PASS MO
CE Electric UK’s new 66/11kV Breamish Street substation will play an important part in the urban redevelopment programmes currently taking place on the north bank of the River Tyne. It will deliver an additional 18MVA of firm capacity to meet the growing demand for additional power, and the need for load transfer in the area.
ABB won the £5.4 million, two-year, turnkey contract to design and construct the substation on a brownfield urban site in Newcastle-upon- Tyne.
The restricted space on the enclosed site makes it ideally suited as one of the first UK projects to take advantage of ABB’s innovative PASS MO space-saving hybrid AIS (air insulated switchgear) and GIS (gas insulated switchgear) modular switchgear technology. It can save up to 70 per cent of the space normally required for a conventional AIS substation, while also reducing the need for civil works such as foundations, steelwork and cable trenching operations.
The scope of the Breamish Street project includes: the design and construction of a new substation comprising two 66/11kV 15/30MVA CER transformers, a 66kV PASS MO in/out unit and a 13 panel 11kV switchboard; the installation of a 66kV PASS MO feeder unit at Fossway, the closest CE Electric UK substation; and the creation of an underground 66kV XLPE cable link between the two substations. The Breamish Street contract was awarded within ABB’s long-term, turnkey framework contract with CE Electrics UK for the design and construction of new and replacement substations throughout the north-east of England.