Operating experience with and problems of lightning protection for the first domestic 220-kV overhead lines from the lower Svir’ HPP to the Lenénergo

Abstract

Results of analysis of operating experience with automatic disconnection of the first domestic 220-kV overhead lines from the Lower Svir’ HPP to a substation in the settlement of Kolpino in the Leningradskaya Oblast’ (two Svir’ 220-kV overheads lines with a length of 247 km) over a period of 21 years (1982–2002) in total volume of 10,400 km · year are presented. Operating indicators are established with respect to specific number of disconnects and stream of failures per 100 km of overhead lines. Indicators of lightning-surge protection on the 220-kV Svir’ overhead lines passing through the same corridor primarily along a swath cut through a forest in periods when the stranded cables were protected by different schemes — stranded cable only on approaches to substations, incomplete and nonuniform protection along the route — are compared. Recommendations are given for optimal cable protection of the 220-kV Svir’ overhead lines.