Great Western Electrification Programme – Protection and Control Design Support

Navitas Engineering has been commissioned by the ABB/UK Power Networks Services Consortium to provide ongoing support with the Protection & Control GRIP 5 Design for the substations commissioned as part of the Great Western Main Line Electrification Project.

The scope of works and activities to date are as follows:

  • Technical review of protection and control specification;
  • Technical review of scheme logic and protection setting inputs;
  • Technical assessment of the current transformer requirements and specifications;
  • Development of high impedance busbar protection settings;
  • Review and development of site specific and IED specific distance protection settings;
  • Development of generic and site specific IED protection setting mask file templates and Form Bs;
  • Fault investigation and assessment against protection philosophy;
  • Bypass settings and configuration evaluation;
  • Bespoke depot feeding arrangement analysis and protection settings implementation;
  • Technical support at working group meetings and IDC reviews.
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