Electrical infrastructure & Hydrogen solutions for the Industry

Innovation and Collaboration

TRANSCO, LKAB and Hitachi Energy

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Electrical Infrastructure & Hydrogen solutions for the Industry

Esam Al Murawwi
Projects Director
Transco, United Arab Emirates Project
Lightning
Barakah Noor
Enabler of the Energy 5560MW NPP Abu Dhabi
Transition and the drive 935MW PV
towards net-zero

Shams Dhafra
100MW 2GW PV
CSP

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Abu Dhabi Transmission &
Despatch Company (TRANSCO)
as an Enabler of the Energy Transition
WHO WE ARE OUR MISSION OUR VISION
Abu Dhabi Transmission and Despatch Company We are committed to To provide the clean
(TRANSCO) is a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National transmitting water and power and water that
Energy Company (TAQA) and is responsible for electricity safely, economically, governments, businesses
the development, operation and maintenance of securely and reliably, while and consumers need for
high-voltage power and bulk water transmission embracing innovation and a sustainable and
networks within Abu Dhabi and beyond. organizational excellence. successful life.

OUR VALUES

SAFE SUSTAINABLE COLLABORATIVE INNOVATIVE EXCELLENCE

We put safety We do what is right for environment, We are stronger We seek creative ways to We strive for exceptional
above all else community & people together deliver results. performance.
 Introduction to TRANSCO and Our Place in
the Electricity and Water Sector Value Chain

DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION TRANSMISSION AND SUPPLY
REGULATOR
Power & Water Purchase AADC / FEWA / SEWA
Independent Water agreements ( P W P A ’ s ) (DISTRIBUTION)
& Power Producers
(IWPPs)
(ASSET OWNER)
CONSUMERS
(Single Buyer /
System Operator)

WORKFORCE 166 9370 1190 km 3479 km 121

1000 Substations
km
Overhead Lines Cables 51 Pumping
Stations Pipeline Reservoirs
Power

Water

Gas

Over the course of the year, our robust infrastructure connections delivered a demand peak demand of 16,393 MW for
electricity and 790.7 MIGD for water, while ensuring the reliability of service of over 99% for both: a great achievement well
inline with the highest industry standards.
TRANSCO’s existing electricity and water
transmission systems operate throughout the UAE
with interconnections to Oman and Saudi Arabia

Electricity Network Water Network

 TRANSCO’s Strategy and Plan
is Determined by the Priorities of
Our Stakeholders

Stakeholder Priorities

SECURITY CUSTOMER

1 2 3 4 5
DECARBONIZATION DIGITIZATION EFFICIENCY & SECTOR OF SUPPLY PROTECTION
Setting the course for Digital as an enabler for COST OPTIMIZATION
net-zero emissions the future of the sector Continuity of supply through Always placing the customer
a transitional period at the heart of all we do

What this means for TRANSCO...

1 2 3 4 5 6
Facilitating Retiring Connecting Renewable Connecting Reverse Ensuring Security of Enhancing O & M Embracing Emerging
Generation Generation Osmosis Supply to Existing & Efficiency Technology
New Customers
 Evolution of the Abu Dhabi Production
Portfolio From 2020 to 2030

Production 1% 5%1% 2%

Capacity By 24%
15%
Technology
• The United Arab Emirates recently announced a national drive to achieve
9%
net-zero emissions by 2050 through its UAE Energy Strategy 2050 that is
a key driver of TRANSCO. 69% 76%
OCGT Cogen
• Interim targets to 2035 have also been announced by Abu Dhabi. CCGT Nuclear
CSP Solar PV
• The current production portfolio is undergoing change to include nuclear, Electricity (2022) Water (2022)
BESS Co-gen RO
PV and RO; there is a degree of uncertainty on the rate of change,
particularly for PV. 1%
1%
• The migration of water production from thermal desalination to RO is as
15%
material to the migration 21% 10%
29%
of electricity production to renewable forms of generation in 25%
0% 18% 18%
considering power system stability as it affects the amount of
synchronous generating plant connected to the system particularly in the 17% 0%
17%
71%
winter months.
28% 29%

Electricity Low (2030) Electricity High (2030) Water (2030)

 Abu Dhabi’s Energy Transition
Success Stories So Far

•
Project February The Shams 100MW CSP

2013
Lightning plant at Madinat Zayed came
Barakah Noor into commercial operation.
5560MW NPP Abu Dhabi
935MW PV
The 935MW Noor Abu Dhabi at Sweihan
October started producing its first PV production and it

•
2018 came into commercial operation in April 2019.

Unit #1 of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant synchronized

2020 to the TRANSCO grid in 2020 with commercial operation

•
commencing in 2021. Unit #2 COD followed in 2022. Unit #3
synchronised in 2022, and Unit #4 is expected by 2023.

2022 - The 2,000MW Dhafra PV Plant is

•
2023
scheduled to achieve commercial
operation in 2023.

Dhafra 2022 - The Project Lightning 3,200MW

•
Shams HVDC Connection is scheduled to
100MW 2GW PV 2025 achieve commercial operation in 2025.
CSP
Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant
The First Nuclear Energy Project in the Arab World

4 3 2 1

● The Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant consists of 4 units,

with a total installed capacity of 5600MW.

● Unit 1 and Unit 2 have commenced commercial

operations in April 2021 and March 2022 respectively.

● The 3rd unit of Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant was

synchronized to the grid successfully in September 2022,
further enhancing energy security and adding over a
gigawatt of clean electricity capacity to the UAE grid.
Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant
The First Nuclear Energy Project in the Arab World

SAFE SUSTAINABLE COLLABORATIVE INNOVATIVE EXCELLENCE

TRANSCO achieved Delivering clean, efficient and More than 2300 People Implementation of a TRANSCO has received multiple
9 million safe man- reliable electricity to the UAE grid, from various stakeholders state-of-the-art awards for its contribution to this
hours while realizing providing up to 25% of the worked together with technologies within goal including “Transmission &
the construction country’s electricity- the equivalent TRANSCO’s team. the switchyards Distribution Project of the Year –
milestones to charging 2.5 million electric cars Gold” in the Asian Power
every single day. Preventing the Awards 2020 and Utility Project
release of up to 21 million tons of of the year in Sustainability and
carbon emissions annually – the Innovation Award 2022
equivalent of removing 3.2 million
cars off the roads annually
Dhafra PV Integration (PV-2)
The world’s Largest Single Site Photovoltaic Plant

● Dhafra PV is the world’s largest single site photovoltaic plant and will
supply power through approximately 160,000 homes across the UAE.

● As part of the ongoing energy transition, TRANSCO supported

Dhafra PV Project company in the energization of 400kV Electrical
Special Facility (ESF) substation at Dhafra PV (PV2) in Q4 2022.

● As per end of 2022, 1.3GW of modules are installed, and over

1.1GW (or 100 blocks) are connected to the Grid (TRANSCO)
Dhafra PV Integration (PV-2)
The world’s Largest Single Site Photovoltaic Plant

SAFE SUSTAINABLE COLLABORATIVE INNOVATIVE EXCELLENCE

9.5 million safe Supplying 2GW which is Successful collaboration Plant Design: using Number of PV
manhours approximately powering 160,000 between different Bifacial PV modules, module’s installed per
achieved. homes across the UAE. stakeholders resulted in mounted on day: >30,000 per day
successful energization of Suntrackers
Expected to reduce Abu Dhabi’s Electrical Special Facility The time to complete
CO2 emissions by more than 2.4 (ESF) which facilitated the civil work for
million metric tonnes per year, the evacuation of around 1GW. Electrical Special
equivalent of removing 470,000 Facility (ESF) was 6-
cars from the road 7 months.
THANK YOU
Electrical Infrastructure & Hydrogen solutions for the Industry

Tomas Uusitalo
Head of Development
Automation & Power
LKAB, Sweden

Impact and challenges as

LKAB takes a new sustainable
position on the market

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Energy & Transformer Days
February 21 & 22, 2023 in Dubai
Per Tomas Uusitalo
Head of Development Automation & Power
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We take a new position on the market
A successive change from supplier to iron ore pellets to supplier of sponge iron

Fines Iron ore pellets Sponge iron

Historical LKAB milestones in Electrification & Automation
1915-1923 Electrification of the Malmbanan railway between Luleå and Narvik
1957 Automatic hoists
1960 Remote controlled underground train switches, block sections
1973 Automatic trains
1979 Remote controlled tapping.
1979 Computer controlled pelletizing plant
1992 Model-based mill control in concentrators
1996 Realtime datacollection LKAB production process. IP21
1996 Remote controlled production drilling
1999 Fully automated loading
1999 Remote controlled boulder handling
2001- New generation of automized mining machines.
2002-2015 One common systemplatform, ABB 800 xA in processing plants.
2009- Online connection and onboard computers for production loading.
2010-2017 WiFi coverage in our mines, 3700 WiFi accesspoints
2015- Full coverage realtime positioning human and machines (IoT)
2016- Realtime planning and control of development in vehicle computers.
2018- Full WiFi coverage production plants above ground.
2018- SUM - Sustainable Underground Mining
Development of the future sustainable, autonomous and digitalized mine Konsuln
Our strategic approach – current position (2019)

”Dumb” power grid

• 2,2 TWh electricity and 2 TWh fossil energy
consumption

• Implementation and measurement of risk

• Top-to-bottom hierarchy immunity and energy
elimination, interference, E
efficiency
• Central production planning n
• Few
Still electricity
some manual suppliers
management and analogue e
processing
• One-way energy flow r
All electrical
•• Power power islimiting
grid production fossil free g
y
Our strategic approach – towards the vision

Smart power grids

Goals for 2030

• Electricity consumption, 20 TWh

(Electricity production Sweden 2020, 159 TWh)
• Bidirectional energy flow
• Capacity to produce electricity from excess energy (heat
• Multiple micropower producers
and/or hydrogen) E

• Facilities adapted for business need n

• LKAB electricity production (if any) contributes in
• two-way energy
Power quality, flowand working methods are up to
facilities e
date
r
• Wind, solar, waste heat power with advanced
• Working tools and processes are digitalized and g
control and energy storage
automated
y
• Real-time production
Goals for 2050

• Electricity consumption, 55-70 TWh

Electricity needs and hydrogen production
Electrical power TWh Hydrogen kTon

Including the processing to CO2-free LKAB:s future needs equals

sponge iron, LKAB’s annual electricity more than a third of Sweden's
needs will rise from todays approximately total electricity production in
2,2 TWh to 55 TWh in 2045 2020 (159 TWh)

55 TWh

104 TWh
Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Apply and develop electrical installations with high OEE

OEE – an essential tool for analysis and increased productivity through the whole value chain

Availability Performance Quality

• Active redundancy • Digital models in early stages • Voltage dips
• Mobile switchgear • Optimal dimensioning • Frequency stability
• Interference immunity • Cost efficiency • Harmonics
• Measuring of energy and power • Optimal relay protection settings
Challenges

• Electric power and infrastructure matching LKAB aggressive development plan

• Manage electricity
• LKAB’s future influence on Sweden’s power grid will be significant, perhaps dominant

• Hydrogen comes with new need of technology and competence to LKAB and the
Mining Industry
• Stay profitable, product requested by customers, prompt and efficient permit
management
Electrical Infrastructure & Hydrogen solutions for the Industry

Arnaldo Bertazzi
Senior VP Industry Network
Leader, Hitachi Energy

Supporting Industry in a time

of change & transition

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Supporting Industry in a time of change & transition

Unmanned and remote operation

Machine guidance
Wireless and fiberoptic communication
Power quality solutions to connect
plants far from any strong node of the
Optimum ore dispatching network
Lumada Pit to port
µ-Grid controller and BESS for
reduction of the footprint of self
generation in mines

Productivity &
Competitivty

footprint
CO2
Wide range of grid integration
Service: spanning from plant
solutions to leverage the available
upgrading studies to end of life activities.
renewables
Prognostic and reliability centered
maintenance, supported by diagnostic
data analysis and advanced digital
technology

Scope 3
Ultra fast charging for
electrical hauling trucks in
Remote support to on site Green open pit mines
inspection and repair H2
Greenhouse gases
Scope 1: In own process
Scope 2: In feedstock & energy used
Scope 3: Associated with own purchased product
and when produced product is used AC & DC Power from Shore – PfS - gives OceaniQ™ portfolio of products
Electrolyzer full optimized connection facilitates PfS or OSW connection
access to low Carbon footprint electrical energy

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 On shore and offshore HVAC Grid Connections

SVC Available in all TCSC When sub - Substations:

configurations, TCR, synchronous resonances Containerized, mobile, skid
TSC, MSC are of concern mounted, traditional or digital

Leveraging the vast portfolio spanning from Power Quality

to OceaniQ™ Equipment, as well as grid expertise, Hitachi
Energy designs, delivers and maintains on shore and
offshore grid connection
SVC: Static Var Compensation, SVC Light: Statcom
TCSC: Thyristor Controlled Series Compensation

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Offshore HVDC connections

Power from shore for the two production islands of DAS and
Zakum
Scope:
- HVDC Light™ monopole ±320 kV
- HVDC Light™ bipole ±400 kV
Leveraging a unique experience in all HVDC type of interconnections, - Total Power 3200 MW
and the specificity of the Voltage Sources Converters (VSC) based Levelized Cost Of Energy (LCOE) lower than on-site self
HVDC Converters, Hitachi Energy designs, delivers and maintains production: decarbonizing while improving competitiveness
Offshore HVDC Systems

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Ultra Fast Charging of Hauling Trucks for Open Pit Mines

Features
30 minute cycle
• Based on charging while stopped at queueing (a short 2min + 1min charge time
distance from the loading point) and dumping point.
• Impose additional 2 minutes of stopping time but offset
by higher truck speed. Truck will drive up to 80% faster
for short periods which reduces the cycle time.
• Lithium titanate oxide (LTO) battery on truck capable to
Charge at queueing Charge at dumping
be charged at very high rates.
point before loading point
• Designed to be interoperable.
• Interface through a simple robust connection which are
mechanically guided into position.

Under development in the frame of the “Charge on

Innovation Challenge” in conjunction with Hitachi Industrial
Products

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e-mesh PowerStore

PowerStore Integrated: PS250 & PS500 PowerStore Modular: PS1000 About the project

The complete PCS and battery modules are The PCS and battery are housed in • Project name: Tom Price BESS Spinning Reserve
integrated into a single outdoor enclosure* separate enclosures* to achieve • Location: Tom Price, Australia
flexible power and energy ratings • Customer: Rio Tinto
• Completion date: estimated 2022

Solution
• Solar PV (34MWp)
• Load & Conventional Generation (~300MW)
• PowerStore Battery (45 MW / 12 MWh)
• e-mesh Control System
• Integration to Network Manager™

Controller
+ Battery
+ Controller**
AC & DC • The largest off-grid
+ energy storage system in
Australia will provide
virtual spinning reserve to
+
Battery Converter
switch gas generation off
Transformer AC & DC Transformer

• CO2 reduction, reduced fuel and running costs and

Powered by e-Mesh: Scalable vertically+
integrated digital ecosystem managing and enhanced power system stability and reliability
• The solution will reduce CO2 emissions today, make the
optimizing energy at all levels with wide range of applications from the field to the site ‘renewable ready’, and contribute to mining 2050
boardroom, on cloud and on premises carbon-neutral vision

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Green Hydrogen – an example

Hitachi Energy designs and delivers electrolyzer agnostic

solutions, that assure full respect of the Grid Code and maximize
efficiency of the system. Hitachi Energy supports the 20 MW Containerized Electrolyzer solution
development of the solutions with techno-economic studies

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Service partnering to meet today’s complex needs

Assess & Advise Upgrade & Replace Install & Commission

RelCare platform
Prognostic Maintenance
Asset Performance Management
Cooperation Centers – Augmented
reality - Hololens
TXpert Ecosystem
Train & Develop Maintain & Sustain End ofRemote
APM, life services
Services

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Flagship Solutions Powered by Lumada

sset Performance anagement nterprise sset anagement ield Service anagement

APM is designed to provide health and EAM delivers business outcomes at a FSM is a highly scalable and intuitive
performance insights to prevent critical sustainable and superior cost of inspection, maintenance and repair
asset failures while optimizing asset operations and capital investment. EAM application. Designed for asset-intensive
lifecycle costs. Leverage online and offline instills best practices and processes to environments like substations, FSM
data to drive more intelligent, risk-based help you manage assets from day to equips mobile users to execute work
approaches to asset management day and throughout their lifecycle orders in the field with optimal efficiency

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Panel Discussion
Electrical infrastructure & Hydrogen solutions for the Industry
TRANSCO, LKAB and Hitachi Energy

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