We’re ready to meet the expanding power demands of urban and densely populated areas without expanding the power substation or transformer footprint.

Mitsubishi Electric is uniquely positioned to evalute the alternatives associated with restrictive urban footprints and interior equipment locations. The use case often forces the power utility to answer some difficult questions:

• Do you operate the facilities at loads above their rating, and for how long?
• Do you replace the facility, and with what capacity to ensure a lifetime that meets both the financial and power demand needs?
• Do you substitute technologies such as transitioning from AIS to GIS technologies?
• Do you employ multifunctional control systems that replace or reduce the footprint of the previously installed voltage control or power factoring or energy switching gear?
• Do you decide to build two in place of one, and how will that be financed over time?
• Do you factor in storm, natural disaster and security countermeasures, and how will that impact the physical structure, the power equipment and the size of the substation?

All of these factors are part of the engineering challenges which Mitsubishi Electric has the experience to deal with as well as the expertise to help the power utility narrow choices down to the right one, based on capital expenditure budgets, on cost/risk analysis and based upon long term power substation energy demands.