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Analysis of Icing Accident in South China Power Grids in 2008
Analysis of Icing Accident in South China Power Grids in 2008
Paper 0119
ANALYSIS OF ICING ACCIDENT IN SOUTH CHINA POWER GRIDS IN 2008
AND IT’S COUNTERMEASURES
LI Tianyou1, 2 LI Juanjuan
1.Fujian Electric Power Co., Ltd., Fujian, Fuzhou 350003, China Xiamen Power Supply Bureau,
2.Business Administration Institute, North China Electric Fujian, Xiamen 361006, China
Power University, Beijing 102206, China E-mail:lijjuan@126.com
E-mail:ltyxm@163.net
Abstract: The South China suffered a serious icing railway traction station were seriously affected. Total
accident in the beginning of 2008, which caused a wide outage 884 35kV and above substations and 15,300 10kV
area destroyed on the power grid In this paper we used and above transmission lines, and 184,000 high-voltage
the first-hand data collected from the field in towers and 519,000 low-voltage poles were broken.
northwestern Fujian Province, analyzed the key factors Besides, data from the <Southern Power System
that caused such a serious accident. The analysis pointed Technology> showed sleet and frost had caused 7451
out that the disaster that hadn’t happened in 50 years 10kV and above power lines outage and 859 35kV and
before caused tht lines were covered by thick ice, it’s above substations outage in China Southern Power Grid
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beyond the former design standards of devices which Corporation (CSG) , total 126247 10kV and above
didn’t consider such serious weather conditions, power towers and poles were destroyed by the end of
especially the snow-icing condition. Many lines and February 27th, 2008. It needed 39.0 billion RMB to
towers in large area were broken and fallen down. So, we rebuild and reconstruct. The loss would be greater if CSG
need to attach importance to the microclimate conditions and local power departments were involved. Take Fujian
and micro-geographical characteristics along the lines, power network as an example to analyze, low
to carry out differential design standards for such temperature with frozen rain, snow and icing was
different icing-zone, to suitable choose the route for continuing more than 10 days resulting in insulator drop,
power supply lines, to strengthen the routine inspection of wire breakage and tower failure, which caused the
the measures for combating the accidents and fighting distribution outage of Longyan, Sanming and Nanping in
with the natural calamities, etc... In addition, a guiding Northwestern Fujian Province. The lessons were
principle about strengthening the planning of power profound because of huge economic loss, wide area
sources and developing the distributed generation power failure (about 600,000 houses), long duration
sources and building LIFE CHANNEL for city grid had (almost 1 month) unavailable service and almost whole
been decided to put into practice, thus to strengthen the county outage of several counties. The damage
ability to withstand the influence caused by the natural classification of distribution and pole failure of each
calamities. voltage level in Fujian power network is separately
Keywords:icing accident,distribution network,tower shown in Table 1 and Figure 1.
failure,countermeasures Tabel.1. Distribution damage collecting table in
Fujian province in 2008
1. INTRODUCTION Earth Damage
Most parts of South China have had a heavy snow-cing Pole Wire wire lines
Voltage failure breakage Breakage Length
which haven’t happened in fifty years before. Strong cold (kV) (points) (points) (points) (km)
air intruded into Fujian Province on January 24th, 2008. 110 103 49 21 200.994
According to the reports from State Grid News on March 35 339 276 10 245.6