TORREVIEJA TRANSFORMER BOOST

School wants more courses in electric and hybrid Vehicles

Such is the demand for electric and hybrid vehicles that the School of Mechanics in Callosa de Segura has asked that more courses be provided through LABORA

The Mayor, Manuel MartÌnez Sirvent, visited the Municipal School of Mechanics where 2 courses are being held, morning and afternoon, for 30 people each attending for 560 hours. Mora said that "for next year we have requested 3 courses: auxiliary maintenance operations in electromechanics of 350 hours, maintenance of electrical and electronic systems of vehicles of 560 hours, and the electrification course for i-DE, the distribution company of the Iberdrola group, has carried out major improvements to the Torrevieja substation, installing a new 50-megawatt (MW) power transformer, doubling the capacity of the infrastructure by having two transformers providing a total of 100 MW.

This upgrade, according to the firm, will make it possible to improve the reliability and quality of the electricity supply in Torrevieja and its surroundings, as well as to facilitate access and connection of new supply and generation requests that will now be produced within its scope.

With the commissioning of the substation expansion, iDE will be able to meet the growth in demand from the town and will contribute to reducing losses in the distribution network given its proximity to the areas that generate the demand.

In addition, given its strategic location, this infrastructure will mean a reinforcement for the electricity distribution system in Torrevieja since it now has greater manoeuvring capacity when it comes to distributing loads.

The company, which has made an investment of 1.3 million euro in this expan- sion, continues to improve the distribution network in Torrevieja, where it has some 130,000 customers who are served through more than 400 service centres and more than 1,000 kilometres of medium and low voltage lines. hybrid and electric vehicles, as well as a training itinerary on electrification and the maintenance of electric vehiclesî.

For i-DE it is important to have a resilient electrical system in the area, particularly in the Vega Baja region, a territory with a significant degree of urban occupation that has to withstand extreme weather conditions or natural phenomena, which are increasingly frequent.

The Mayor added that ìthe municipal mechanics school, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary, is an example of the government commitment to training and job placement, with this type of workshop continuing to be highly subscribed.î