II Semester

Subject Name : Basic Electrical Engineering

Unit : 06 Electrical Installations:

Layout of LT switchgear: Switch fuse unit (SFU), MCB, ELCB, MCCB, Type of earthing. Power
measurement, elementary calculations for energy consumption

What is an Electric Power System?

An electric power system or electric grid is known as a large network of power generating
plants which connected to the consumer loads

The lines network between Generating Station (Power Station) and consumer of electric
power can be divided into two parts.
• Transmission System
• Distribution System

The main objective of an electric power system is to obtain electrical energy and make it reachable safely
to the load point where it is being used in usable form. This is done in five stages namely

1. Generating Station
2. Primary Transmission (in 132kV, 220 kV, 500kV or greater)
3. Secondary Transmission (up to 132kV, 66 or 33 kV)
4. Primary Distribution (11 kV)
5. Secondary Distribution (230 V or 440 V)
The following parts of a typical power supply scheme are shown in figure.

Presently the generating stations we employ mainly over the world are following:-

1. Thermal power plant

2. Hydel power plant(Hydro-electric)
3. Nuclear power plant
4. Diesel power plant
5. Gas power plant
6. Solar power plant
7. Tidal power plant
8. Wind power plant. Etc