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Budo-Efo Injection Substation

A full rehabilitation of a working injection substation for IBEDC's Kwara Region. LIFAN restored the 11kV switchboard, the 33kV breaker mechanism and the transformer auxiliaries, re-roofed and rewired the control room, and rebuilt the yard around it.

Location
Challenge Business Hub, Kwara Region
Client
Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC)
Rating
2 × 15MVA33/11kV8 × 11kV panels
11kV breaker panels before servicing
The same panels serviced and terminated
11kV breaker room
Control room before re-roofing
Control room after re-roofing and renovation
Control room roof
Tap-changer control panels before maintenance
Tap-changer control panels after maintenance
Tap-changer control panels
Panel cable compartment before termination
Cable compartment after termination
Panel bushings

Scope delivered

Rehabilitation of a 2 × 15MVA, 33/11kV injection substation: switchgear, transformer auxiliaries, control room and civil works.

11kV switchgear

  • 8 Nos 11kV breaker panels serviced and terminated
  • 500mm² single-core cable installed from the 15MVA transformer secondary to the 11kV indoor breaker

33kV yard

  • 33kV breaker mechanism serviced and missing operating rod replaced
  • Isolator gantry before the T1 breaker and lightning-arrester gantry repainted
  • Breakers 1 and 2 repainted; channel irons on the feeder H-pole repainted

Transformer auxiliaries

  • Transformer tap-changer control panels maintained and replaced indoors

Control room

  • Complete re-roofing
  • General renovation of distribution boards and isolators
  • Complete re-wiring, with external night lighting

Civil works

  • Switchyard cleared, including the section by the Feeder 1 station auxiliary
  • Control-room surrounds and switchyard gravelled, with kerbs and concrete demarcation
  • Entrance gate repainted and new bridges built at the main entrance
  • Street-light poles and water tank repainted and repaired