Siemens Croatia commissioned 100 MVAr Variable Shunt Reactor
The implementation of the first part of the SINCRO.GRID project (financed by European Commission), collaboration between Croatia and Slovenia, has finished.
Croatia: With the successful installation of the turnkey in the Mraclin substation, the implementation of the first part of the SINCRO.GRID project, collaboration between Croatian and Slovenian TSO, has finished.
The project is financed by European Commission and it should create solutions regarding the lack of flexible resources and network congestion, but also ensure the prerequisites for renewable energy resources.
The cost of the equipment and work on the 100 MVAr turnkey installation project in the Mraclin substation costs $3.7 M (25 M kunas). Siemens delivered the turnkey to the investor HOPS with all the needed production and project execution documentation, construction and electrical work, inspection execution, and final works before setting the turnkey in motion.
With the successful installation of the 100 MVAr turnkey, the first of the three projects Siemens arranged with HOPS has finished. All three projects are under SINCRO.GRID project umbrella. The other two parts of the SINCRO.GRID project are: the installation of the 400 / 220 / 110 kV in the Melina substation worth $5.4 M (36.5 M kunas) and the development of the SVC in substation Konjsko worth $15.5 M (105 M kunas).
The finalisation of these three projects will, in the long term, solve problems with excessively high transmission voltages and reactive power regulation, and Croatian energy system will have the most modern technological solutions.
During the technical inspection of the construction site dated January 15, 2020, the operating permit was green lighted, and with that, Siemens, along with its partners and investor HOPS has completed, for the first time in Croatia, the installation of the 100 MVAr turnkey to the transmission system.
Source: Siemens
