River Crossing Dampers

Apr 2013

Electricity Transmission

Reference:

Status: Live

Start Date: Apr 2013

End Date: Unknown

Funding Licencee(s): National Grid Electricity System Operator

Contact: National Grid TO Innovation Team

Funding Mechanism Innovation Funding Incentive

Research Area: None

Core Technology(ies): Asset Management

Estimated Expenditure: £109,000.00

Introduction: Monitoring levels of vibration across three large river spans on the National Grid network, Implementing a solution to manage the vibration.

Objectives: The objectives of this project are to:

Monitor the oscillation of conductors across three large river crossings on the system
Analyse the results of monitoring and design a new system for damping these crossings
Implement the new design on one crossing
Support a capital scheme for the replacement of the other two crossings.