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International Surveys on Circuit-Breaker Reliability
Data for Substation and System Studies
Anton Janssen, Member, IEEE, Dirk Makareinis, and Carl-Ejnar Slver
AbstractSince the 1970s, CIGRE has conducted three world-
wide surveys on high-voltage circuit-breaker (CB) reliability.
The results of the last inquiry, published last year, are presented
and compared with those of the former inquiries. With a focus
on the CBs fundamental functions for the system, figures show
the growth in reliability during the past decades. The reliability
is expressed in failure per 100 CB years (CBY) or per 10 000
operating cycles for the relevant failure modes. The overall major
failure rate improved largely from the first (1.58 per 100 CBY)
to the second (0.67 per 100 CBY) to the third enquiry (0.30 per
100 CBY). The failure rate increases with higher voltage classes;
GIS CBs have been shown to be twice as reliable and live tank
CBs twice as bad as the average failure rate. Although improved,
the mechanical operating mechanism is still the subassembly
responsible for most failures; besides, CBs applied for frequent
switching purposes show a higher failure rate than average.
Index TermsFailure modes, high-voltage circuit breaker (CB),
major failure, reliability data, reliability definitions, system relia-
bility.
I. INTRODUCTION
F AST, selective and reliable fault clearing is a prerequisite
for an electric power system. One of important elements of
the protection system is the circuit breaker (CB). Under normal
circumstances, the CB has to carry the current and energize or
de-energize sections of the high-voltage (HV) network. But at
the very moment that somewhere in the network a short circuit
appears, the CB is the only high-voltage apparatus to protect
the network. If the short-circuit current is not cleared immedi-
ately, the backup protection systems will trip a larger part of the
network, leading to an outage of more overhead lines, busbars,
and substations. In such a case, the power supply for a larger
area will be interrupted. Moreover, the fault must be quickly re-
moved since otherwise dynamic stability problems in the entire
power system may occur.
Consequently, the requirements for CB performance and reli-
ability are very high. These requirements are not only imposed
on new CBs but also on old CBs and determine the utilitys
maintenance and life-management strategy. From the point of
view of reliability, distinction can be made between a failure of
Manuscript received March 28, 2013; revised June 27, 2013; accepted July
20, 2013. Paper no. TPWRD-00360-2013.
A. Janssen is with Liander, Arnhem 6812 AR, the Netherlands (e-mail: anton.
janssen@alliander.com).
D. Makareinis is with Siemens Power Transmission Division, Berlin 13629,
Germany (e-mail: dirk.makareinis@siemens.com).
C.-E. Slver is a consulting engineer for STRI, Ludvika SE-77131, Sweden
(e-mail: carl.solver@telia.com).
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2274750
0885-8977 2013 IEEE
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a CB that causes the cessation of one or more of its fundamental
functions (i.e., a so-called major failure, MF or MaF) and other
failures (minor failures, mf or MiF) and defects. By definition
[1], a defect is an imperfection in the state of an item (or inherent
weakness) which can result in one or more failures of the item
itself or of another item under the specific service or environ-
mental or maintenance conditions for a stated period of time.
An MaF will result in an immediate change in the power
system operating conditions (e.g., the backup protective equip-
ment being required to remove the fault), or will result in
mandatory removal from service within 30 min for nonsched-
uled maintenance [1].
The CBs fundamental functions (i.e., the lack of fundamental
functions: MaF) are as follows:
does not close or open on command;
closes or opens without command;
does not make or break the current;
fails to carry the current;
breakdown to earth or between poles;
breakdown across open pole (internal or external);
locked in open or closed position.
Note that a difference is made between the mechanical re-
sponse of the CB (the first two items and the last item), the elec-
trical functions (making, breaking, carrying the current), and the
dielectric failures (breakdowns, including breakdowns across
open poles).
Examples of MiF are:
air/hydraulic oil leakage in the operating mechanism;
small gas leakage due to corrosion or other causes;
change in functional characteristics.
The functional characteristics may include closing and
opening times, travel characteristics, lock-out pressure levels,
and automatic functions such as for pole discrepancy.
Major failures are defined from the perspective of the CB fun-
damental functions, but from a system perspective, sometimes
such a failure does not interfere with the system fundamental
functions (e.g., does not open or close on an operators com-
mand). Utilities therefore may face problems when linking their
failure reporting, that is related to power interruption, directly
to the information defined by IEC, which is formulated from the
apparatus perspective.
II. WORLDWIDE SURVEYS
Conseil International des Grands Rseaux Electriques
(CIGRE) is the International Council on Large Electric Systems
(www.cigre.org), that conducted three worldwide enquiries on
high-voltage CB failures and defects in service. Forementioned
definitions, functions, and failures have been established by
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CIGRE Working Group 13.06, later Working Group A3.06,
responsible for the surveys. In the meantime, similar definitions
are used for other components and have been introduced in the
IEC standards [1].
A. First Worldwide Inquiry
The first international survey covered failures and defects of
CBs with a rated voltage of 63 kV and above. During the survey,
failures have been observed for four years (19741977), in total,
77 892 CB years, put into service after 1963. At that time, dif-
ferent arc extinguishing technologies have been included, but
during the statistical analysis of the failures, no further distinc-
tion has been made between the technologies (air-blast, bulk
oil, minimum oil, single and double pressure -gas, vacuum,
etc.). A total of 102 utilities from 22 countries participated in the
inquiry. By means of population cards and failure cards, the in-
formation on service experience has been collected. Apart from
information about failures, also information about maintenance
intervals, maintenance costs, and the number of switching op-
erations has been collected (operating cycles).
All information has been analyzed per voltage class (63100
kV, 100200 kV, 200300 kV, 300500 kV, 500 kV).
Results from the survey and specific investigations have
been published in several professional organizations. The most
important publication was in Electra No. 79 (1981) [2]. The
studies were the basis for new mechanical and environmental
tests on CBs, such as mechanical operation tests, with an
increased number of cycles, low/high temperature tests and a
humidity test.
B. Second Worldwide Survey
The second international inquiry had the same structure, but
was limited to single pressure -gas technology only. How-
ever, a distinction has been made between different technologies
of the operating mechanism (hydraulic, pneumatic, spring) and
its impact on the failure rates.
Moreover, distinction has been made between metal-enclosed
and nonmetal-enclosed CBs; equipment installed outdoors and
indoors; and equipment put into service before and after January
1, 1983. The survey was conducted during the years 19881991,
and covered CBs put into service after 1977. The total popula-
tion consisted of 70 708 CB-years from 132 utilities of 22 coun-
tries. The main objectives were to see whether the reliability,
especially the mechanical reliability, of CBs has improved and
whether maintenance intervals and maintenance efforts have de-
veloped in a profitable way. The final report has been published
as CIGRE Technical Brochure 83 (1994) [3].
C. Third Worldwide Survey
The third inquiry covered service experience in the years
20042007 and 281 090 CB-years from 83 utilities of 26 coun-
tries and was again limited to single pressure technology.
The population of the third inquiry differs quite substantially
from the former two inquiries; a fact to be considered when
making comparisons. The inquiry was a part of a survey that
Fig. 1. Third inquiry application in the percentage of CB population.
covered the service experience with earthing switches, discon-
nectors, instrument transformers, and gas-insulated switchgear
(GIS) [4].
The third inquiry included CBs of all ages, as a relation
between MaF-rate and age was an important objective of the
third survey. New was a distinction in CBs application (over-
head line, cable, transformer, shunt reactor, shunt capacitor, bus
coupler). More information has been asked about the enclosure,
as a differentiation was made between dead-tank breakers,
three-phase enclosed GIS, and single-phase enclosed GIS (see
the Appendix). Also, more details of dielectric failure modes
were asked, especially concerning its occurrence; that is, during
closing/opening operation or during closed/open position. The
outcome of the investigations on CB reliability in service is
available as CIGRE Technical Brochure 510 (2012) [5].
III. POPULATION AND FAILURE STATISTICS
A. Applications
From the population data, it is clear that a quarter of the
high-voltage CBs is applied in transformer bays. Sixty percent
is applied to overhead line and cable bays (54% to line and 6% to
cable bays); most cable bays are constructed in GIS technology.
Ten percent of all CBs are used as bus couplers (Fig. 1). Shunt
reactors and shunt capacitor banks each require only a few per-
cent of the whole CB population, though they cover more than
20% of the MaF. Since the latter CBs are those that will be op-
erated quite often, a comparison has been made between the
MaF-rate and the average number of operating cycles per year
per application; the number of cycles has been based on the in-
formation collected per MaF-failure card. An operating cycle
is composed of one open and one close operation. For conve-
nience reasons, in Fig. 2, the MaF-rate is expressed per 10 000
CB years (CBY). In Fig. 2, the idea is underlined that from the
point of view of reliability, a CB is mainly a mechanical device.
B. Technology
With the age distribution as published in the third inquiry
[5], it is clear that about half of the population of -gas CBs
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Fig. 2. Third inquiry MaF rate and number of cycles per application.
Fig. 3. MaF-rate per drive technology for failures allocated to the drive based
on table 3.5.1 [3], 225 [5], and 218, 2110, 2211 (last two columns) [5].
covers the same period as investigated during the second in-
quiry. The change in products manufactured per year is as fol-
lows. Over the years, the portion of GIS CBs lays between
20 and 30% with a slow trend to more three-phase enclosed
GIS applications. The remainder are live-tank and dead-tank
breakers; dead-tank breakers show a strongly decreasing trend
since, before 1980, its portion happened to be 40% of all CBs
but it shrunk to 10% in the new millennium (see the Appendix).
The technology of the operating mechanism is changing to-
ward spring mechanisms: from a portion of 40% in the early
days to 60% these days. The dominant position of hydraulic
drives in the early days (50%) has over time been reduced to
less than 20%; about the same portion as pneumatic drives. In
Fig. 3, the MaF-rate of the hydraulic and pneumatic drives has
decreased dramatically and is these days comparable with, or
better than, the MaF-rate of spring-driven mechanisms (column
after 1999). On average, all technologies show great improve-
ments compared to the second inquiry. The MaF-rate decreased
from 0.29 per 100 CBY in the former survey to 0.14 per 100
CBY in the last survey, related to MaF for which the operating
mechanism is responsible. For the entire population of the third
inquiry, the spring drive performs the best (Fig. 3, 2nd column
3rd inquiry).
The overall MaF rate improved largely from the first (1.58 per
100 CBY) to the second (0.67 per 100 CBY) and again to the
3
Fig. 4. Overall MaF rate by voltage class for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd inquiries.
third inquiry (0.30 per 100 CBY). The main step forwards after
the first inquiry was the improvement in arcing chamber perfor-
mance so that less arcing chambers were required and, there-
fore, fewer parts and operating mechanisms. From the second
to the third inquiry, a further rationalization of the designes-
pecially self-blast technologyhas led to less operating energy
required per arcing chamber and, therefore, there is less me-
chanical stress and wear. Apart from that, modular design and
production quality control are rewarded.
It should also be mentioned that in the standards, more at-
tention has been paid to the requirements for mechanical en-
durance, for instance, to class M2 [6] as will be discussed in
Section IV.
C. Voltage Class, Enclosure, Location
By voltage class, the results from the three surveys show the
same tendency, as can be seen in Fig. 4. Similar to the second in-
quiry, in the third inquiry, the reliability of metal-enclosed CBs
(dead-tank, GIS, hybrid) gives a far lower MaF rate than that of
live tank CBs: 0.144 per 100 CBY versus 0.483 per 100 CBY
[4]. In the third inquiry, the population of ME-enclosed CBs is
slightly larger than the population of live-tank breakers. Almost
all live- and dead-tank breakers are located outdoors as well as
the largest part of the GIS CBs.
D. Age
In the third inquiry, failures have been collected per year of
production, so that the MaF development by age can be cal-
culated. For the population installed after 1978, the tendency
shown in Fig. 5 is expected to come from both improvements in
the technology of younger CBs and an aging and/or wear effect
with older CBs.
Aging, wear, and corrosion have been reported as the most
important causes of MaF (almost 50%). Design faults, manufac-
turing faults, and incorrect maintenance together are mentioned
as causes for 15% of the MaF.
There is a slightly better performance of the CBs installed
before 1979 in comparison to those installed between 1979 and
1983. This may be explained by the high probability that a major
overhaul or maybe even replacement of the worst breakers has
taken place, thus improving the average performance of the sub-
population, manufactured before 1979.
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Fig. 5. Third inquiry MaF-rate per voltage class and by year of production.
TABLE I
PERCENTAGE OF FAILURES RELATED TO THE SUBASSEMBLY
COMPONENT RESPONSIBLE, 2ND INQUIRY
E. Components
As reported in the first survey, half of the failures occurred in
the components at service voltage and one-third in the operating
mechanism. That changed with single pressure -gas tech-
nology. The subassemblies and components responsible for the
MaF give the same distribution for the third as for the second in-
quiry. In Table I, details are given as reported for the second in-
quiry with the operating mechanism being responsible for most
failures, both major and minor failures. Minor failures have not
been analyzed in absolute numbers, as with the third inquiry,
based on the response per country, wide underreporting of the
many MiF is assumed.
F. Failure Modes
The failure modes or failure characteristics are quite similar
for the second and the third inquiry. Since the third survey gives
more details, these failure modes are listed in Table II.
Most failures occurred in the operating mechanism, fol-
lowed by the electrical control and auxiliary system (MaF) and
high-voltage parts (MiF). The last item seems to be related
to -gas tightness as the dominant MiF-mode is Small
-gas leakage. Locked in open or closed position is
a dominant MaFmode, that is mainly related to -gas
TABLE II
PERCENTAGE OF MAF RATE AND MIF RATE PER
FAILURE MODE, THIRD INQUIRY
AND
tightness. It is also related to the operating mechanism and
the electric control system. These two subassemblies led to
failure modes, such as Does not open or close on command;
consuming 45% of MaF. With Locked in open or closed
position, it sums up to 70% of MaF. As expected, the MaF
rate with the mode Does not open or close on command is
proportional to the number of operating cycles per year and
with Locked in open or closed position, the relationship is
more indifferent, although a light proportionality can be seen
(table 257 [5]).
Another 10% of MaF is for dielectric breakdowns and al-
most 10% for loss of mechanical integrity. Four percent of the
MaF (6.5% in the second enquiry) resulted in an explosion or
fire; mainly in relation to dielectric breakdowns and mainly with
live-tank breakers. There is an intriguing distribution of the ex-
plosions among the applications of the CB (Fig. 6). CBs applied
in transformer bays seem to perform well, while CBs applied to
switch shunt reactors and capacitor banks show a higher explo-
sion risk. However, it should be noted that the probability of an
explosion is 0.01 per 100 CBY for the entire population.
Only a small part of the major failures has the characteristic
Does not break the current: 1.9% or 0.006 per 100 CBY. So
the mechanical performance seems to need the most attention
from the point of view of reliability. However, the probability
that a CB has to interrupt, for instance, a short-line fault, is or-
ders of magnitude lower than the frequency of regular operating
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Fig. 6. Third inquiry subpopulations and explosions per application in percent.
Fig. 7. Third inquiry MaF-rate per failure mode including the fire/explosion
rate.
cycles. Still, reliable fault clearing is a very important duty of a
CB, depending both on its capability to interrupt fault currents
and its reliability to Open and close on command.
IV. MECHANICAL ENDURANCE
At the first and second international inquiry, a number of
questions have been put forward about the number of operating
cycles per year. The outcome showed that 90% of the CBs are
asked upon to perform 80 operating cycles (one open and one
close operation) per year or less (i.e., the 90% percentile of the
number of operating cycles per year [2], [3]).
The average number of operating cycles per year from the
second inquiry was higher than that from the first inquiry: 42
versus 26.5 CO-operations per year.
The reason for the difference is that in the first inquiry, the
average has been determined by weighting each answer on the
population cards equally and in the second inquiry, each answer
has been weighted by the number of related CBs [7]. At the third
international inquiry, the average number of operating cycles
has not been collected, but could be estimated roughly by the
information per the MaF report. The analysis reported in [5]
gives an average of 69 operating cycles per year, far more than
the 42 found with the second survey.
5
However, this is the average of the answers per MaF-card and
these answers have been differentiated per application, as shown
in Fig. 1 (i.e., tables 259 and 260 of [5]). By using the aver-
ages per application (table 260 of [5]), multiplying them by
the number of CB-years reported for that application (table 25
[5]) and dividing the outcome by the total population in CBY,
the total average becomes 42 operating cycles per year; exactly
the same number as with the second inquiry. Furthermore, there
are no circumstances why the average number of cycles per year
should have been changed, or anyways increased, from inquiry
to inquiry.
Based on these results for a 25-year period of service, these
days seen as the interval between major overhaul, the majority
of CBs has to perform 2000 operating cycles or less. Therefore,
the mechanical endurance type test in the standards has been
specified as 2000 operating cycles or operating sequences, as is
called in the IEC standards. That is to say for CBs applied to
normal service conditions, class M1. For special applications,
such as shunt reactor switching, an extended mechanical en-
durance-type test with 10 000 CO-cycles has been specified in
IEC Standard 62271-100 [6]: class M2.
The mechanical endurance-type test is relatively easy to per-
form and gives a very good quality check. Without energizing
the high-voltage parts, the required number of operating cy-
cles is performed under varying conditions of auxiliary voltage
and operating pressure. Maintenance has to be performed to the
manufacturers instructions; that is, according to the manual.
These days, maintenance during 2000 CO operations will be nil.
The mechanical, dielectric, and electrical characteristics after
the endurance test have to be identical to those before the test
or at least within the tolerances as stated in the manual. This ap-
plies for the primary contacts as well as the auxiliary contacts.
-tightness also has to be checked.
For reliability assessment and to investigate the weak spots
and endurance limits, manufacturers will test prototypes and
subassemblies to a much larger number of cycles; up to tens of
thousands. Such development tests will give proper information
about maintenance intervals and actions [8].
The widely accepted hypothesis is that as long as the mechan-
ical behavior of a CB is identical to that of the type tested sample
and the -gas density is within the operating tolerances, the
CB will perform as specified in the standards. Maintenance is
therefore mainly focused on the mechanical characteristics.
V. SUBSTATION AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY STUDIES
The results of the CB reliability studies are also valuable for
substation and system reliability investigations. In [7], the in-
formation of the first and second inquiry has been used to cal-
culate per voltage class the number of MaFs per command to
open/close and the number of other MaFs per year. For substa-
tion and system reliability studies, such a distinction is neces-
sary, as reliability engineers want to know the probability of a
failure per command (especially for protection functions) and
per time period. The same approach will be followed to cal-
culate the MaF rates with the information of the third world-
wide inquiry. But since no information about failure modes per
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TABLE III
CB RELIABILITY DATA FOR SYSTEM STUDIES, ALL VOLTAGES
Fig. 8. Third inquiry comparison of the reported and calculated MaF rate per
application.
voltage class has been collected, no differentiation per voltage
class will be made.
The average number of operating cycles per year is crucial
for the calculations. The failure figures will be calculated by
using both 26.5 from the 1st and 42 from the 2nd/3rd inquiry,
since there are arguments for either weighting method. Yet, the
information for the number of cycles per year is collected by
population cards (26.5) and not per CB (42).
A comparison of the number of MaFs per operating cycle and
per year, for all voltages, between the first, second, and third
inquiry can be learned from Table III. The last but one column
gives the overall MaF rate per year. All of the other columns to
the left are related to MaF with a command to close or to open,
resulting into a total MaF per command in the third column from
the right. The last column gives the MaF per year for failures
without a command to close or open (i.e., the second from right
column minus the third from right column).
In order to calculate the MaF rate per operating cycle (com-
mand), the failure mode Locked in open or closed position is
divided among the failures without command (50%) and Does
not open on command (13%), Does not close on command
(37%). This procedure is the same as applied to the second in-
quiry [7]. The failure modes Unknown, Other, and Loss of
mechanical integrity are proportionally divided over the other
modes.
When comparing the failure modes, much better performance
can be noticed from the first to second and from the second to
third survey. Only the number of failures Does not open on
command has not improved that much from the second to third
inquiry.
When the MaF rates with and without a command for the third
inquiry are plotted in Fig. 2, it can be noticed that the failure
63 kV
Fig. 9. Third inquiry MaF-rate per 10 000 operating cycles for different appli-
cations and the total population (All).
rates calculated with 26.5 operating cycles per year (the bold
line in Table III) seem to fit better than those calculated with 42
operating cycles, that is to say, for the applications with a large
number of operating cycles per year as shown in Fig. 8.
Fig. 2 could also be used to plot per application the MaF rate
per 10 000 operating cycles. Fig. 9 shows these MaF rates, to-
gether with rates for the total population (All), using the average
number of cycles per year of 69, 42, and 26.5, as discussed in
this and the former section. The MaF rate All has to be close
to those of the first 7 (or 5) columns. Thus, the average number
of operating cycles will be 30 to 40 per year.
VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS
The reliability of a high-voltage CB is expressed with respect
to the cessation of one of its fundamental functions (i.e., an
MaF) and other failures (i.e., MiF). The definitions, as included
these days in the standards, have been given. The results of three
worldwide surveys have been compared, and a steady improve-
ment of the CBs reliability can be noticed from 1.58 to 0.67 to
0.30 MaF per 100 CBY. For the third inquiry, GIS and ME CBs
show 50% better performance (0.14 MaF per 100 CBY) and
live-tank CBs have 50% worse performance (0.48 MaF per 100
CBY) as shown in [5, Table 227]. Despite great improvements,
most failures are still related to the operating mechanism.
For modern CBs, the reliability can be expressed in rough
numbers as follows.
Once per 50 000 commands to open, a CB will fail to open.
Once per 500 000 commands to open, it will not break the
current.
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Fig. 10. Information from the third inquiry on the percentage of enclosure type
per manufacturing period [5]: Figure 296.
Once per 25 000 commands to close, it will not close or
make the current.
Once per 500 years, a CB will show another MaF.
Once per 3000 years, a CB will show a dielectric failure
(different from Does not break the current).
Once per 10 000 years, a CB may show a fire or explosion.
With respect to definitions: MaFs are defined from the per-
spective of the CB fundamental functions, but from a system
perspective, sometimes such a failure is not interfering with
the system fundamental functions. Utilities therefore may face
problems when linking their failure reporting, that is related to
system MaFs, directly to the information asked by CIGRE.
As aging, wear, and corrosion have been reported as the most
important cause of MaF (almost 50%), CIGRE has established
two new working groups to study the effects of aging and the
effect of overstressing old equipment in greater depth.
APPENDIX
Fig. 10 gives the enclosure technologies of the total popu-
lation of CBs involved in the third inquiry per production pe-
riod and as a percentage of the CBs manufactured in that pe-
riod. Live- and dead-tank breakers are defined as a CB with
the interrupters in a tank insulated from earth or in an earthed
metal tank, respectively. A GIS breaker is part of a bay which is
completely characterized by insulation and by an
earthed metal enclosure (including hybrid switchgear). Single
or three phase GIS is related to the CB compartment.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This paper is a summary of the work that during the last
decades has been performed by three CIGRE working groups:
the first and second WG 13-06 and WG A3-06.
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Anton Janssen (M95) was Transmission Manager
for a power company in the Netherlands. He then be-
came Manager of the KEMA High-Power Labora-
tory, Arnhem, the Netherlands, in 1993 and became
an Asset Manager in 2002 with Liander, a distribu-
tion system operator (DSO) (electricity and gas) in
the Netherlands.
Mr. Janssen is a member of CIGRE SC 13/A3, and
active as special reporter and was convenor of several
working groups, dealing with reliability (13-06), life
management, asset management, distributed genera-
tion, long-distance transmission, and short/long line faults. Presently he is Sec-
retary of Working Group A3.22/28, dealing with the requirements for ultra-high
voltage substation equipment. He was also a member of several standardization
working groups, both for IEC and IEEE.
Dirk Makareinis is with Siemens, Berlin, Germany,
and has more than 30 years of experience in the field
of high-voltage circuit breakers, especially as a man-
ager responsible for mechanical testing. Currently, he
is Manager of the Sales and Order Processing Depart-
ment for high voltage circuit breakers (Europe).
Mr. Makareinis was/is an active member of sev-
eral working groups within CIGRE: life management
of CBs, reliability of high-voltage equipment (A3-
06), and management of aging high-voltage equip-
ment and possible mitigation techniques (A3-29).
Carl-Ejnar Slver received the Ph.D. degree in elec-
trical power engineering from Chalmers University
of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1975
He joined ASEA (later ABB), Ludvika, Sweden,
becoming the Manager for high-voltage cir-
cuit-breaker development, design, testing, applica-
tion, and technical marketing. He retired from ABB
in 2010 and joined STRI, Ludvika, as a Consulting
Engineer. In 2000, he was appointed Associate
Professor at Chalmers University of Technology.
Prof. Slver was a member of CIGRE SC 13/A3
and an active member or convenor of a number of working groups: switching of
small inductive currents, switching test methods, and reliability of high-voltage
equipment (former convenor of Working Group A3.06). He was secretary of
IEC TC17 and SC17A from 1982 to 1986, and later Chairman of the working
groups on electromagnetic compatibility for high-voltage switchgear, and on
electrical endurance of high-voltage circuit breakers.