| Vizag back-to-back HVDC converter station | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| State | Andhra Pradesh |
| Coordinates | 17°38′33″N83°07′57″E / 17.64250°N 83.13250°E /17.64250; 83.13250 (Vizag Back to Back HVDC Station – Vizag 1) 17°38′26″N83°08′10″E / 17.64056°N 83.13611°E /17.64056; 83.13611 (Vizag Back to Back HVDC Station – Vizag 2) |
| From | Eastern Region |
| To | Southern Region |
| Ownership information | |
| Owner | Power Grid Corporation of India |
| Construction information | |
| Installer of substations | Alstom (Vizag 1),ABB (Vizag 2) |
| Commissioned | 1999, 2005 |
| Technical information | |
| Type | Back to Back |
| Type of current | HVDC |
| Total length | 0 km (0 mi) |
| Power rating | 2 x 500 MW |
| DC voltage | 205 kV (Vizag 1); 176 kV (Vizag 2) |
| No. of poles | 2 |
TheVizag back-to-back HVDC station, orVisakhapatnam back-to-back HVDC station, is a back-to-backHVDC connection between the eastern and southern regions in India, located close to the city ofVisakhapatnam, and owned byPower Grid Corporation of India.
It consists of two independent poles, each with a nominal power transmission rating of 500 MW, referred to as Vizag 1 and Vizag 2. Vizag 1 was built byAlstom between 1996 and 1999 and has nominal DC voltage and current ratings of 205 kV, 2475 A. Its design is very similar to that of theChandrapur back-to-back HVDC converter station.
Vizag 2 was built byABB between 2002 and 2005 and has nominal DC voltage and current ratings of 176 kV, 2841 A.
Both Vizag 1 and Vizag 2 use air-insulated, water-cooled thyristor valves.
On 31 December 2013, the Northern, Eastern and Western grids were synchronised with the Southern regional grid, creating a single synchronous AC grid over the whole of India.[1] As a result, the converter station is no longer required for its original purpose of asynchronously linking the Eastern and Southern grids, although it can still be used as an embedded power flow device to help control power flow within the AC system. The stations could potentially be dismantled and moved to elsewhere to export/import power from other countries. Sometimes the excess power fed to the southern grid by this HVDC link is flowing back to Western region through the 765 KV AC lines between Southern grid and the Western grid which is not desired.[citation needed]
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