115/22kV Pattaya Tai 3 Substation

Site Visit on March 14, 2024

 Project Information

Project Name : 115/22kV Pattaya Tai 3 Substation

Employer : Provincial Electricity Authority
Contractor : Hitachi Energy (Thailand) Limited
Employment contract number : TDDP1-PYW/2564, Contract signed on October 28, 2021

Contract Start Date Contract End Date Contract Period

4 th January 2022 29 th May 2023 510 Days

Total value of construction work : 298,000,000.00 บาท (Including VAT)

- Value of Civil work : 55,371,578.51 บาท (Including VAT)
- Value of electrical work : 242,828,421.49 บาท (Including VAT)
History
The First Digital Gas Insulated Switchgear Substation with Online Monitoring System in Thailand.

PEA Pattaya Tai3 is the first digital substation with an online monitoring system that was developed by the Provincial
Electricity Authority of Thailand (PEA) and Hitachi Energy in Pattaya city, one of the most popular tourist destinations in
the country under the contract TDDP1 – PYW/2564. The smart grid system uses digital technologies to enhance the
reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of electricity supply in the city, as well as to support the integration of renewable
energy sources and the electrification of transportation. The plan is part of PEA’s vision to become a world-class utility
that provides quality services to customers and contributes to the social and economic development of Thailand.

PEA is responsible for distributing electricity to more than 19 million customers across 74 provinces in Thailand. The
smart grid system that PEA developed in this substation uses digital technologies such as advanced metering
infrastructure, distribution automation, and demand response to optimize the operation and management of substation
assets according to IEC61850 standard. These technologies will enable real-time monitoring, automate the operation
and protection of the distribution network and advance maintenance planning, which will make the energy system
more sustainable, flexible and secure.

The plan is also considered as the first step and foundation of PEA to achieve its target of becoming “PEA Digital
Utility” a leading electricity business that meets the expectations of customers and society by using digital technology.
 SYSTEM OVERVIEW DIGITAL 115kV SOUTH PATTAYA 3 SUBSTATION

115kV Line 115kV Line MSM-II Gas monitoring and circuit breaker monitoring
To Pattaya Tai 1 Substation To Chom Thian 2 Substation - Record (timing, speed and travel curve), Coil and phase
MSM
Current Analysis, Fault Operation Counter, Contact wear
calculation, Early warning on SF6 leakages to reduce inspection
work and maintenance cost)
Excount-III
Surge Arrester Monitoring | EXCOUNT-III – ‘Smart’ Monitoring
- Real-time remote monitoring, Count Surges (with amplitude,
steepness and time stamp), Leakage current , Resistive
TXpert
Leakage current, Surge current impulse analysis

CoreTec 4 (Transformer Monitoring Platform)

is a modular transformer monitoring system designed to collect,
MV SWG aggregate, manage and analyze data
- Optimize your transformer with live data, detect faults, reduce
insulation aging, increase load capacity, integrate with
equipment’s digital offering.
RelCare
CoreSense – hydrogen & moisture sensor
- Trend analysis, Correlation of gas to load and temperature
data, Hot spot and aging calculations, Insulation moisture
modeling
Medium voltage metal-clad digital switchgear with
Smart substation control and protection SSC600
- Enhanced safety, reliability and accuracy, Lower operational
costs and increased efficiency, System redundancy protocols,
Easy and efficient process management with station-wide
RelCare | Digital Service Partnership process visibility
Minimized safety risk, Productivity and quality gains through digitizing maintenance execution, Avoided financial losses resulting, Avoided cost associated with
incidents/contingency plans, Capital deferment and depreciation savings, Optimized utilization of the service windows, Reduced maintenance effort
115kV SOUTH PATTAYA 3 SUBSTATION SINGLE LINE DIAGRAM
115kV SOUTH PATTAYA 3 SUBSTATION LAYOUT

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 MSM-II :
Gas monitoring and circuit breaker monitoring

Features Benefits
• Scalable and versatile: applicable to all High Voltage switchgears, Improved reliability with reduction in unplanned downtime saving
new installations and retrofits, OEM as well as third-party losses

• Focused on maintenance optimization: Optimized predictive and proactive maintenance by early warnings
– Separated from control & protection
– Gas monitoring including gas leakages, pressure forecasting features Provides adequate time for maintenance planning with less chances of
and SF6 humidity failure
– Internal arc localization
– Circuit-breaker monitoring Greater diagnostic capability in case of failure through the recorded
– Disconnector monitoring data, reducing time to repair
– Accessories monitoring
Reduction of operational costs for inspection, maintenance and repair
• Easy system integration: by at least 50%
– DNP3 and IEC 61850
(TCP/ IP) communication Improved environmental/ regulatory compliance with reduced SF6
– Dry contacts for alarm and leakages
self supervision
– Remote connectivity enabling fleet supervision and expert services

• Easy system interaction:

– Local Display: key information direct at bay MSM

– Web-Interface via embedded webserver

 Online Surge Arrester Monitor – EXCOUNT-lllA
Remote real-time monitoring, diagnostics and analysis

Key features and advantages of EXCOUNT-lllA are:

• Registration of surge amplitude and wave-steepness, date and time of occurrence

• Recording of complete surge current impulses at the arrester’s connection point
• Online total leakage current measurement
• Online resistive leakage current measurement through the arrester by third-harmonic analysis
• Data analysis via a web page interface
• Support for IEC 61850 data transfer protocol

Surge arrester monitoring theory

Functionality Example of voltage-current characteristics Example of voltage-current characteristics of a metal-
of a metal-oxide surge arrester oxide surge arrester

Excount-III

– Surge counting and classification diagnostic

– Registration of surge amplitude and wave-steepness for the actual surge defines the residual voltage across the arrester (A)
– Better estimation of over voltages for a more detailed evaluation of insulation coordination than has been possible in the past
– Ability to verify the station has adequate protection against potentially damaging surges or not
 CoreTec
Enabling transformer digitalization and monitoring

Key features and advantages of CoreTec are :

• Optimize your transformer with live data

• Detect faults
• Reduce insulation aging
• Increase load capacity
• Optimize your tap-changer maintenance
• Delay replacement of a sick transformer
• Integrate with equipment’s digital offering

Alarms
Watch
Thermal
Analysis

Functionalities
CoreTec 4 is a modular transformer monitoring system designed to collect,
Load Expandabl
aggregate, manage and analyze data for a single transformer
Analysis e

• Monitors your transformer’s vital signs from different sensor: • Other digital sensors: e-devices
• Top oil temperature, • Models and stores data for: TXpert
• Dissolved gases in oil • Hot spot temperature,
Ageing Report
Analysis
• Load, • Ageing rate,
Generation
• Tap changer position, (new functionality) • Overload capability.
Cooling
Control • Bushings, (new functionality) • Controls cooling fans efficiently to maintain
oil temperature
 CoreSense
Enabling transformer digitalization and monitoring

Key features and advantages of CoreSense Reliable design

Hydrogen & Moisture Sensor Solid state in situ moisture sensor
- Direct reading of moisture in oil
– Sensor measures capacitance using the transformer oil as a - Capable of withstanding vacuum and overpressure
dielectric fluid - Never requires maintenance or calibration
– Any water mixed into the oil will change the dielectric constant of the - Readings are insensitive to temperature variations
oil resulting in a capacitance change
– The sensor also measures the temperature Solid state in situ hydrogen sensor
– The amount of dissolved water in 𝜇l/l (ppm) is a function of the oil - No gas separation membrane
type, the temperature and the relative saturation of the oil. The relative - Capable of withstanding vacuum and overpressure
saturation can be determined from the capacitance. - Never requires maintenance or calibration
- Reading are insensitive to other gases or temperature variations

Forced Convection
- Avoid stagnant oil and allow more representative sampling
- No need for a mechanical pump and associated maintenance
- Enables an extension from the tank up to 40 cm

TXpert

Injection of Bubbles for Flow Visualization

 Medium voltage metal-clad digital switchgear with Smart
substation control and protection SSC600

CPC system concept and components SSC600 is IEC 61850 standard-compliant

and offers unprecedented flexibility
throughout the substation's entire lifetime.
Fully modular software allows it to change
– with the evolving grid and meet the
challenge of increasing digitalization.

Up to 15% savings in substation life cycle

costs can be achieved as SSC600 can
handle new network functionalities as
needed.

Centralized protection for distribution substations

Innovative Future-proof and flexible
–Centralizes all protection and control –Fully modular software allows
functionality SSC600
in one single device on distribution to change with the evolving grid
substation level and increasing digitalization of
SSC600 Merging units (MU) Additional –Fully based on international standards substations
Based on the IEC Act as the interface technologies such as IEC 61850 –Maximum flexibility throughout
the substation’s entire lifetime
61850 global between the instrument Substation time –IEC 61850-3-certified with inbuilt
standard for power transformers and synchronization redundancy and self-supervision
system applications SSC600 according to IEEE Easy-to-use and cost-effective

1588 v2 and Optimized management

Move protection and Option of using an –Minimal engineering from start to finish MV SWG

IEC 61850-9-3 –Fast and easy system-wide upgrades –Easy and efficient process
control from multiple intelligent merging unit a management with station-wide visibility
–Extensive application coverage with
feeder level devices protection relay capable Redundant one device –Cost-efficient maintenance with
to a single central of performing MU communication as per –Disturbance recordings for the entire reduced amount of product variants
–Efficient configuration back-up
processing unit functionality IEC 62439-3 (Parallel substation
management
Redundancy Protocol)
 RelCare
Digital Service Partnership

A Digital Service Partnership to Optimize and Safeguard Your Investment Key Benefits Include…
Monitoring substation’s risk from system perspective based on assets’
condition and their role in the system

– Maximizing substation’s reliability over lifetime by deploying reliability

centered maintenance program

Mitigating proactively the risk in an effective and efficient way by taking

well-informed countermeasures

Minimizing lifecycle costs by focusing on high risk-assets and taking an

early corrective actions

Minimized safety risk by enforcing safety standards

Productivity and quality gains through digitizing maintenance execution

Avoided financial losses resulting from unscheduled downtime or

incidents

Avoided cost associated with incidents/contingency plans e.g., cost of

spare parts, labor, overtime, expedite, generator fuel, etc.

Capital deferment and depreciation savings by extending the life of

existing assets.
 115/22kV Pattaya Tai 3 Substation
Site Visit Date March 14, 2024

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 SYSTEM CHART
115kV Line 115kV Line MSM-II Gas monitoring and circuit breaker monitoring
To Pattaya Tai 1 Substation To Chom Thian 2 Substation - Record (timing, speed and travel curve), Coil and phase
Current Analysis, Fault Operation Counter, Contact wear
calculation, Early warning on SF6 leakages to reduce inspection
work and maintenance cost)

Surge Arrester Monitoring | EXCOUNT-III – ‘Smart’ Monitoring

- Real-time remote monitoring, Count Surges (with amplitude,
steepness and time stamp), Leakage current , Resistive
Leakage current, Surge current impulse analysis

CoreTec 4 (Transformer Monitoring Platform)

is a modular transformer monitoring system designed to collect,
aggregate, manage and analyze data
- Optimize your transformer with live data, detect faults, reduce
insulation aging, increase load capacity, integrate with
equipment’s digital offering.
CoreSense – hydrogen & moisture sensor
- Trend analysis, Correlation of gas to load and temperature
data, Hot spot and aging calculations, Insulation moisture
modeling
Medium voltage metal-clad digital switchgear with
Smart substation control and protection SSC600
- Enhanced safety, reliability and accuracy, Lower operational
costs and increased efficiency, System redundancy protocols,
Easy and efficient process management with station-wide
RelCare | Digital Service Partnership process visibility
Minimized safety risk, Productivity and quality gains through digitizing maintenance execution, Avoided financial losses resulting, Avoided cost associated with
incidents/contingency plans, Capital deferment and depreciation savings, Optimized utilization of the service windows, Reduced maintenance effort
Transmission Line

Riser Pole
Main Building
115/22kV 50MVA Power Transformer and Surge Arrester

Surge Arrester Monitoring |

EXCOUNT-III – ‘Smart’ Monitoring
- Real-time remote monitoring, Count
Surges (with amplitude, steepness and
time stamp), Leakage current , Resistive
Leakage current, Surge current impulse
analysis
Power Transformer Monitoring Platform

CoreTec 4
CoreSense –
hydrogen & moisture sensor (Transformer Monitoring Platform)
- Trend analysis, Correlation of gas to load is a modular transformer monitoring
and temperature data, Hot spot and aging system designed to collect, aggregate,
calculations, Insulation moisture modeling manage and analyze data
- Optimize your transformer with live
data, detect faults, reduce insulation
aging, increase load capacity, integrate
with equipment’s digital offering
 115kV Control Protection

RelCare – Battery Charger Distribution Board Distribution Board Remote Control Cabinet
SSC600 Cabinet & SCPS Panel No. 1&2 400/230 VAC 125 VDC TR01&TR02 +W1
No. 1&2 No. 1&2 No. 1&2 RCC No.1&2
Smart Substation Protection
 115kV Control Protection

+LCPP2 PANEL +LCPP1 PANEL +BCPP PANEL

+TCPP2 PANEL +TCPP1 PANEL +BZP PANEL
Remote & Monitoring System

RelCare | Digital Service Partnership

Minimized safety risk, Productivity and quality

gains through digitizing maintenance execution,
Avoided financial losses resulting, Avoided cost
associated with incidents/contingency plans,
Capital deferment and depreciation savings,
Optimized utilization of the service windows,
Reduced maintenance effort
22kV MV Switchgear

Medium voltage metal-clad digital switchgear with

Smart substation control and protection SSC600

- Enhanced safety, reliability and accuracy, Lower

operational costs and increased efficiency,
System redundancy protocols, Easy and efficient
process management with station-wide process
visibility
115kV GIS

MSM-II
Gas monitoring and circuit breaker monitoring

- Record (timing, speed and travel curve), Coil

and phase Current Analysis, Fault Operation
Counter, Contact wear calculation, Early warning
on SF6 leakages to reduce inspection work and
maintenance cost)
Battery Storage Room
22kV Capacitor Bank