How Do Substations Work?

I would highly recommend aspiring electrical engineers to give working as a substation engineer a shot, it’s extremely deep and fascinating

Hi thanks for the great video, do you have any recommended books or references to dive deeper?

Sir, how did you know!!! Every time I'm looking at the substation I'm just standing there and admiring. My heart is in love.

where is that substation with the giant metal sculptures?

very good information
where are you from friend

if my mag fields go down, the AP fallout would say rolling backouts are ill-advised, i paid my bill i sujest u pay ur execs less and properly build a stable high ca[picity grid. in every grid that has blackout its been proven that expansion of that grid solves the problem just ask PPP in california. its a company they need to do their jobs. most rolling blackouts are due crimnal corparations paying their execs instead of maintaining the grid. just ask PPP in California who got sued millions when an old lady died due to her oxy machine got shut off by a rolling blackout. in the united states we dont do blackout we hold our power company resposible for serivces paid for like the corp they are!

As a SCADA Engineer who works in Control room and perform end to end test without visiting the substation, I really impressed with video.

Wind is not reliable. And, there is no global warming.

Thank you

You talked about the obvious stuff, but what about inductors for harmonic suppression, and capacitors for power factor correction? The need for those is much less obvious.

As an electrical engineer I’d say this is a good video I learned and understand somethings

I heard the term “self healing systems” to describe the latest in grid fault management. Could you address these processes?

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That diddly-diddly "music" in the background is maddening! I had to stop listening. Ugh!

Great video but as someone who puts together EHV transformers I wouldn’t say they’re very simply machines 😂

As a arch student who is currently loving every bit of her electrical classes, thank you for a such a nice video

Even though I have built many substations I enjoyed the video.
Here, in the UK, it is slightly different as we work at different voltages (400kv for the grid and 275kv to cities down to 11kv for inner city power) and a slightly different system.
We have many types of substation but they mainly do the same job, take power in and put power out. In towns and cities they are either contained in a fenced area or in some places in a dedicated building, or in one historic location within an old house so it wouldn't be seen in movies like the Avengers. Mainline power distribution substations take power from many locations then synchronise them and sent them out at various voltages to distribution subs for power to towns and cities. The only problem with substations are the amount of tools you need for the international equipment we use, I had to have one toolkit dedicated to the S&C equipment as they were all US Imperial whereas the majority of the rest of the equipment was Metric.

Great video. I work at PG&E Substations and the precautions we take are extremely necessary

Video is made for ordinary non technical people, but comments are mostly from Electrical Engineers! I am too studying Electrical Engineering third year! Best wishes dude 🙏!

hi sir, can you creat a video about contruction build tower angten ?, please

Hi, I would really appreciate some help here: I'm developing a video game (a zombie survival horror game) where the characer needs to restore power to part of the city. So, my thinking is to include a electrical substation, where the player can go and restore power. I would like to know how this would be achieved in real life and try to adapt it (simpler) for the game. I mean, is there a switch? is it done by a computer system within the station? please someone help me describing a situation where power was interrupted and how it can be restored from the substation. Thank you!

I'm a lay person, but I find this stuff fascinating. There's no telling how many people passing by in cars who have said, "Look at that crazy person," as I was walking down the sidewalk gawking up at the power lines and transformers.

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Funnily enough a mear 10mins after watching your video. A strong gust of wind came over my town and I watched the green flash of power lines hitting a tree followed by the power fluctuating three times before going out completely. Just like I just learned from the circuit breaker portion of your video!

How long would it take to build a system that is destroyed? How long would we go without power in a worst-case scenario?

Cut a few inches off and the wood was too hot

Studying for NERC exam. Your videos are so much easier to watch and understand compared to the “prep” course.

Electrical and civil

You were doing great until you spilled the Kool Aide at the end.

Great ❤

Really great video. I subscribed and subbed just because this video was put together so well.

Global warming..haha..

Stop with the global warming nonsense.

I know my house is connected to a substation with a recloser because one time in an outage power kept turning on for a couple minutes before turning off again and eventually turning off for 5 hours while the fault was fixed

This helped me make an electrical substation for my game. Didnt know how to organize it but now i do, thanks grady.

My husband bought me your book for CHristmas! It was near the top of my wish list, so he bought it for me. I'm happy to learn the names and purposes of all the technology around me. This book should be given to every middle-school library in the country, but I don't know anybody that has that much money. It really makes me happy to look into that book.

I would say it is time to delete this video!

Electricity works on FM…

Excellent presentation.
However:
There is no such thing as “green energy”. Hydroelectric causes methane which is worse than carbon for greenhouse gas effect. And hydroelectric is not available in droughts.
Wind only works when and where the wind is blowing, and notably not immediately following a big storm, just when energy is most needed. Wind turbines kill birds by the thousands including bald eagles. Wind turbine blades need to be periodical replaced and they are made of fiberglass, which is essentially inert. They don't burn and can't be recycle. Wind turbines require oil for gear lubrication.

Replacing good farm land with solar deserts should be ever so obviously morally wrong, not to mention counterproductive to the reduction of airborne carbon. Solar produces electricity only a few hours a day. It is therefore not a viable addition to the grid where other power sources can't be ramped on and hourly basis. Fossil fuel generators ramp up in days not hours. Solar panels can reach 150ºF. So if they are massed in farms (some as much as 1000 acres or more) they can generate thunderstorms and tornadoes. But they can also generate cooling at night because they produce “black body radiation”. So solar farms can generate weather extremes. Solar has it's place but replacing farm land with solar is counterproductive.

There is no “green energy” that can survive without tax incentives. That should tell you something right there. It isn't truly viable.

The cleanest energy available is nuclear, but unfortunately leftist have and irrational hate for nuclear.

This is what you get when politicians with no science or engineering background try to design your future for you. And all the more especially when their primary motive is their own personal avarice, not to mention their moral and intellectual bankruptcy. The only thing about green energy is the dirty money flowing into corrupt pockets.

Newer substations run on HVDC power , they make use of High voltage SCR's to mimic a
AC wave form for distribution.

Why can't substations have power banks installed to curb not only downed lines from power generators, but also spikes in power? Batteries?!?! Or even capacitors?

As usual a marvelous video. Anything on this facility is worth the watch.

Very useful for Kyiv citizens today

Target them and bring down the power grid

The lovely substation in a green valley you show in the Intro has become a security issue in late 2022 as we see physical damage and 'vandalism' at such facilities in both the Pacific Northwest and most recently in the Carolinas. Hard to fathom that people would deprive others of essential electrical services by taking down elements of The Grid, but the reality is that society is fraying and the foundations of functional infrastructure are threatened by criminals of every type and using a variety of weapons, from rifles to computer malware.