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Hugh Rudnick
Araneda, Juan Carlos (Transelec), Rudnick, Hugh (PUC), Mocarquer, Sebastian (Systep), Miquel, Pedro (Systep), "Lessons from the 2010 Chilean earthquake and its impact on electricity supply", 2010 International Conference on Power System Technology (Powercon 2010), Hangzhou, China, October 24-28, 2010
Death toll: 521; Missing: 56 Injured: 12,000; Displaced: 800,000 Infrastructure affected:
370,000 houses 4,013 schools 79 hospitals 4,200 boats damaged
Economic loss: 30 billion US dollars Acceleration of 0.65 g in Concepcion 10 meter average plaques displacement
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SIC
Immediate blackout for 4,522 load (peak demand of 6,145 MW and installed capacity of 11,023 MW) Longitudinal transmission system over 2,200 km long Grid lines mainly at 220 kV and 500 kV Five, then two, island scheme for grid supply recovery Distribution networks severely damaged
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Impact on operation
Severe impacts on country communication systems. Basic systems (mobile networks, emergency alert schemes, public order control), electricity dependant, did not operate as desired and caused additional harm. Difficulties also arose in the communications and telecontrol schemes of most electricity installations, transmission substations and generating plants, complicating plant and system recovery and operation. No alternative backup radio systems.
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Impact on operation
System operator (CDEC-SIC) had additional difficulties throughout the emergency as the SCADA system in use (for over ten years), was not able to provide information required for system recovery (alarms could not be trusted as they were often incorrect). Traditional phone calls had to be used to learn on local conditions and supervise actions for equipment and system restoration.
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Bocamina plant
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Damages in lines
Transelec has 8,239 km. of lines, 50 substations, 10,486 MW transformation capacity
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Damages in substations
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Damages in substations
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without damage
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Transmission assesment
Damages concentrated in one transmission line
3 towers 154 kV line (1.6 km)
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Distribution damage
4.5 million people were initially affected by the extended blackout that took place because of the earthquake and it took days, and even weeks in some areas, to recover full electricity supply. Most affected areas supplied by CGE, Emelectric and Emelat. Chilectra also affected in Santiago. 80% of clients were without supply the day after the earthquake and this reduced to 0.4% two weeks after (related mainly to Concepcion and Talcahuano, next to the earthquake epicenter).
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Distribution damage
Some distribution networks were destroyed by the effects of the earthquake, as houses fell over street lines or simply were washed away by the tsunamis (for example 40,000 houses were destroyed out of 1.5 million supplied by CGE). Besides those distribution installations directly damaged, there was little damage elsewhere. Distribution poles in Chile are mainly compressed pre-stressed concrete poles, which are well founded, and support important mechanical stresses. Exceptions in overloaded city poles.
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Damage in distribution
Distribution aerial transformers are often placed between two poles and a steel support, thus they also withstand well an earthquake. Main difficulties in restoring supply to houses took place at the connection point between the low voltage lines and the buildings. Companies have equipment and human resources to repair normal failures within one or two days. But when several hundred thousand of those connections fail, as in an earthquake, the problem is quite different. Communication problems, difficult physical access to locations, no resources to manage the huge number of needed repairs. Companies involved human resources brought from other regions.
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Damage in distribution
Mobile generating sets brought to support recovery of supply, particularly in more isolated areas. Challenges for distribution companies lasted months after the earthquake (many latent faults, caused by the quake, that could not be detected when repairs were been made days after the event, or if detected, were secondary to the objective of supplying consumers as fast as possible). Arrival of winter, with rain and wind, started igniting these faults in a a massive way, demanding the companies to comply.
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Araneda, Juan Carlos (Transelec), Rudnick, Hugh (PUC), Mocarquer, Sebastian (Systep), Miquel, Pedro (Systep), "Lessons from the 2010 Chilean earthquake and its impact on electricity supply", 2010 International Conference on Power System Technology (Powercon 2010), Hangzhou, China, October 24-28, 2010
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Balance y conclusiones
Experiencia internacional indica mayores daos en transmisin y distribucin Altos estndares y cdigos constructivos civiles y en equipos elctricos de generacin Imposible evitar impactos de desastre natural de esa magnitud en instalaciones elctricas Necesidad aprovechar experiencia y producir necesarios cambios en mtodos de prevencin y de recuperacin
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Balance y conclusiones
Balance negativo de capacidad de respuesta del pas y su institucionalidad de emergencia. Inaceptables niveles de fallas de infraestructura de comunicacin Balance positivo del nivel ssmico de la infraestructura elctrica (particularmente en generacin/transmisin) Claras oportunidades de mejoras, particularmente a nivel de CDEC y de redes de distribucin
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Balance y conclusiones
Cuidado con reacciones excesivas a evento de baja frecuencia de ocurrencia Necesidad evaluar econmicamente acciones preventivas versus correctivas.
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Agradecimientos
Transelec CGE Distribucin CGE Transmisin CDEC-SIC Chilectra American Society of Civil Engineers PostDisaster Assessment Teams (Dr. Anshel Schiff, Stanford University)
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Hugh Rudnick