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Siemens Installs First IEC 61850-Compliant Substation in the USA - City of Naperville

To improve the reliability of the City of Naperville's power supply, we updated two existing substations with the IEC 61850-compliant SICAM PAS substation automation system and SIPROTEC relays - the first IEC 61850-compliant substation in the United States. This cutting edge substation information system helps improve network operation, reduce the complexity, and further increase the reliability of the local power supply to keep over 130,000 people switched on.

Siemens Builds First Underground Gas Insulated Substation in the USA - City of Anaheim

Siemens Anaheim GIS substation

What do you do when your city expands and the municipal utility needs to expand its distribution system? For Anaheim Public Utilities, we designed and planned an underground electrical switching station below Anaheim's Roosevelt Park. Then we built it - America's first underground GIS electrical switching station that rests beneath the park's beautiful landscape. And through the intelligent use of gas-insulated switchgear technology manufactured by Siemens, up to 90% of space can be saved, while an underground substation leaves 100% of nature to be enjoyed.

 

Siemens Energizes 600MW Undersea Transmission Line - Neptune

Siemens Neptune Undersea HVDC project

How do you feed New York State's ever-growing appetite for energy? Our answer is Neptune, a 65-mile long HVDC transmission link connecting Long Island to one of the largest and most competitively priced power markets in the United States. So Long Island can be switched on 24/7. We planned it, designed it and made it happen with our technological expertise and engineering services. It's no wonder then that we were entrusted with the project's initial operation and maintenance for the first five years.

 

Siemens Delivers Largest Single-Contract Static VAR Compensator in the USA - Southern California Edison Devers Substation

The Siemens static volt ampere reactive (VAR) compensation system (SVC) has strengthened the transmission path from Arizona to California since its completed installation in September 2006. This FACTS installation, currently the largest in North America, was handed over to the customer, Southern California Edison (SCE), after a very short lead time of 13 months for implementation and commissioning. Southern California Edison (NYSE:EIX) is one of the nation's largest electric utilities in the US, serving a population of more than 13 million via 4.8 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within central, costal and Southern California.


Siemens furnished, on a complete turnkey basis, all work required to engineer, design, manufacture, assemble, install, test and commission the Devers SVS for Edison's Transmission and Distribution Business Unit. The project included a 525 kV, three phase, 60 Hz, -110/+440 MVAR SVS at Devers Substation outside of Palm Springs, California, with a 110 MVAR mechanically switched capacitor (MSC) and a -110/+330 MVAR SVC. Siemens was able to get the system operational in only 11 months so that SCE was able to strengthen their bulk power 500 kV system by the summer peak.