TRANSFERING 20MW OF AL HAMRA POWER PLANT ON UTICO POWERPLANT

PROPOSALS FROM AL GHAIL POWER LLC

PROPOSAL- 1.
Construct new switching station near to UTICO Power plant and MARINA switching station.
Connect 11KVSpare Feeders, 2nos, from UTICO power plant to this new Switching station.
Divert Al Hamara power cables ,4nos of 3C X 300mm2 Al cables, which are going to MARINA switching
station and coming from shopping mall & MMI, to new proposed Switching Station. Thus,Marina
switching station will get connected with newly proposed Switching station.
Presently ,Approx 13.5MW can be catered from UTICO POWER PLANT by this scheme to townhouse and
marina.

OUR COMMENTS
1. Construction of new Switching station would take approx 6 months time. However, advantages of
Switching station are,
a. proper protection scheme can be provided
b. power rating of bus bar and circuit breakers can be designed to 1250/2500Amps.
c. Synchronizing facility can be provided , which avoid power interruption during changeover from
UTICO to AHP or vice versa.
d. Future expansion is possible.
2. Another option is Installation of 2nos RM6 with metering facility near to UTICO POWER STATION and
Connect UTICO and Al Hamra Power to RM6 arrangement . This would serve the same purpose of the
proposed substation. However ,disadvantages in this method are,
a. All standard protections cannot be normally provided with RM6,
b. Max available circuit breaker and bus bar rating is 630 Amps.
c. Expansion is difficult as compared to switching station
d. Power interruption for short duration during changeover
Further, The RM6 need to be modified to provide facility for terminating two cables in two breakers.
3. Al Hamra to provide load curve to confirm load during summer and winter

PROPOSAL 2
BAB AL BHAR Switching Station 11KV panel has UTICO POWER at one BUS section and AL HAMRA
POWER at other BUS section with a BUS Coupler separation.
At present ,Al Hamra is feeding 3.5MW to its customers. This load can be diverted to UTICO POWER by
switching OFF Al Hamra incomer and closing the BUS coupler.
Al Hamra is feeding above 3.5MW and another 3MW to Al Marjan area through a RM6 arrangement at
the entrance of Marjan Island .
If UTICO can connect their existing 11KV cable to this RM6, then a total of 6.5MW load of AL Hamra can
be transferred to UTICO.

OUR COMMENTS
1. If this 6.5MW transferring is possible, then approx.20MW (13.5+6.5MW) can be transferred from
AL Hamra Power plant to UTICO side.
2. UTICO to study about this and submit their comments on this.
3. Al Hamra to provide load curve to confirm load during summer and winter


PROPOSAL 3
Utilize 2nos new 33/11KV substations of UTICO in Al Hamra area for diverting Al Hamra Load on UTICO
side. it can be done by diverting AGPL cables, which are passing in front of those substations of UTICO, to the
substations.

PROPOSAL 4
Identify the Al Hamra RMUs and UTICO RMUs which are nearby and Swap Al hamra power with UTICO power
which would enable to transfer 20MW of Al hamra power to UTICO side. Necessary metering arrangement need
to be taken care.

OUR COMMENTS ON PROPOSAL 3&4
1. UTICO to study on this after getting the relevant details and drawings from Al hamra power station.
2. Al Hamra to provide load curve to confirm load during summer and winter

PROPOSAL FROM UTICO
Link UTICO 33KV substation of UTICO with Al hamra 33KV GIS.
33KV cables to be laid from UTICO to AL HAMRA Power plant for this.

OUR COMMENTS
A detailed study will be required on this proposal as Al Hamra and UTICO will be required to be synchronized.
No spare 33KV GIS feeder is available at Al Hamra power plant.