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There seems to be a small cable fire in London, has affected key parts of the MV network BBC Local Live: Updates from London on Wednesday 1 April 2015 - BBC News
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There can be only one possible cause for this......
Plumbers!
True, but there is often a neutral earthing resistor or similar at the star point of the upstream transformer.
The same as LV networks, via earth electrodes....
As far as i'm aware, all of the local MV/LV distribution network TX's are Dyn 11 (delta/wye). N-E Resistors would only be used where it is requirement to limit the fault current on the LV side. Earthing electrodes for MV and LV systems are generally separated at TX locations unless the Ra value of the electrode systems are of a suitably low value (under 1 ohm).
I don't consider MV/MV TX's as being particularly part of a local network distribution system, although in Central and the City of London the networks have been reinforced and evolved many times often in not exactly the best way, so it wouldn't surprise me at all that N-E resistors have been used quite extensively.
Local distribution transformers 11/.433KV Dy11, up to 1000KVA 4.5% imp, 1500KVA 5% imp.
Star point neutral solid earthed. (TN-C)
Primary transformers 33/11KV Dy11+OLTC
Star point impedance earthed. (IT)
A little gem I found last night while reading up on something else.
London’s predominant network assets comprise approximately:
2,000km EHV cables (above 11kV)
8,000km MV cables
19,000km LV cables
100 EHV/MV substations
13,000 distribution substations
2.1m customer connections
Hardly surprising there’s the odd failure.
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