Endeavour Energy is planning a second, larger deployment of digital substation technology in the infrastructure that will power the Nancy-Bird Walton Airport in Sydney's west.
Endeavour Energy
As reported by iTnews last month, Endeavour Energy’s first digital zone substation at South Erskine Park recently went live.
Digitisation – replacing thousands of copper connections with fibre-linked sensors – provides both capital and operational savings, and delivers a more “future-ready” grid.
With the contract to build a digital transmission substation to supply the western Sydney airport and its surrounds, Endeavour Energy will now deploy the digitised substation on a much larger scale.
“Endeavour Energy will construct a new digital transmission substation and electrical infrastructure to provide electricity to the 1780-hectare airport site and surrounding business hubs," the company said in a statement.
“The high voltage indoor transmission substation will initially provide 120MVA of capacity but has the capability to grow and expand with the airport.”
A spokesperson told iTnews other critical infrastructure earmarked for the region includes large scale batteries, EV chargers and microgrids.
A spokesperson said “transmission substations typically supply five-to-10 zone substations”.
The utility's CEO Guy Chalkley called the airport development “one of the largest infrastructure projects in Australia”.
