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Improvements keep Spencerport Municipal Electric running safely and reliably by Kristina Gabalski Keeping the power on is a constant job for those who work to provide homes with electricity and recently in Spencerport, the village’s Municipal Electric Department installed a new Flooded Battery System complete with spill containment. “The new system replaces an outdated 15 year old battery system,” says Spencerport Municipal Electric Superintendent Owen McIntee. “With that came a new dialer system, so SME employees are notified via text messages if a battery or building temperature alarm comes into the station.” Additionally, SME employees earlier this year installed an 18 inch deep
The recently replaced (2013 and 2014) circuit switchers. Provided photo.
rubber material system for oil containment around the entire perimeter of the substation. “In the case of a catastrophic event that causes oil to leak from one of the two transformers, this new containment system would contain the oil within the substation fenced area and prevent any oil from spilling into nearby Northrup Creek,” McIntee explains. He notes that the substation continually undergoes routine maintenance and capital improvements. In 2013 and 2014, SME employees replaced both 115kv circuit switchers, McIntee says. “These sophisticated and expensive devices control transmission voltages that supply power to each substation transformer.” Also, every five years, SME employees and engineers conduct extensive substation breaker maintenance and testing. “All these activities which take place are necessary to keep the substation operating in a safe and reliable state, so that proper, constant, reliable power is distributed to our customers,” McIntee says. “The small profit we realize from our annual revenues is continually reinvested back into our substation and overhead/underground pole facilities,” he continues. “The equipment that we purchase today is more state of the art and highly efficient compared to equipment that was manufactured 30 years ago. Because of this strategy, our systems are constantly upgraded, which helps deliver safe reliable power to our customers.” Weekly, inspections of all critical substation components are performed and McIntee notes that every day, a great deal of work goes on behind the scenes at the substation and out on the overhead and underground lines. “The fascinating part of electric utility work,” he observes, “is that as we go about our routine day, customer power is not interrupted.”
SME employees working on the substation. Provided photo.
The black rubber mounted in ground to inside of the substation fence was installed to contain any oil in the case of a catastrophic event that could lead to an oil leak from a transformer. Provided photo.
To learn about Spencerport’s electric history, continue to page 17
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