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News Release from: Cutler-Hammer | Subject: 11kV switchboards
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2001
Big switchboard order from new
electricity firm
Eaton is to provide its Cutler-Hammer switchboards for GPU Power UK's Burslem sub-station which services 100,000 people in the Stoke-on-Trent region
Eaton Corporation, the world-leading manufacturer of Cutler-Hammer industrial controls and circuit protection equipment, has announced a major order from GPU Power UK - formerly Midland Electricity Board Eaton will provide its Cutler-Hammer switchboards for GPU Power UK's Burslem sub-station which services 100,000 people in the Stoke-on-Trent region
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Aug 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Cutler-Hammer switchboards were selected by GPU contractor, ESBI and will provide circuit protection for two new transformer installations, as part of a programme to standardise voltage to 11kV.
The Burslem sub-station installation, valued in excess of £2 million, replaces some of the equipment which dates back to 1928.
The sub-station comprises 28 panels of Cutler-Hammer 11kV switchboards - the most Cutler-Hammer switches installed in a line so far - with a 120MVA capacity and will enable GPU Power to continue its programme of asset replacement in the Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme regions.
"Eaton's Cutler-Hammer switchboards are renowned across the industry for reliability, and since they are priced so competitively and are on the approved GPU Supplier list we found it difficult not to select them," said Bruce Kirkpatrick, Project Manager for the contractor, ESBI.
"Also with so many switchboards in a continuous line, it has helped to have a solution with a small footprint." In 1999 Midlands Electricity became the first electricity company to make the strategic move to separate its distribution business from its competitive supply operation.
The ground-breaking sale of its supply business and brand name MEB to National Power, along with 1,300 MEB employees, was completed in June 1999.
Midlands Electricity, now called GPU Power UK, remains a ?1 billion business, and a major player in the utilities market.
The company is looking to grow across the board in asset management, electrical contracting, metering, 3D mapping, trenchless technology and energy services.
GPU Power UK has five main subsidiary businesses - Metering Services, Energy Services (UK) Limited, MEB Contracting, Geophysical Mapping Services (GMS) and Midlands Power International (MPI).
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