Alstom Transport upgrades 12 electric substations pertaining to Electrificare CFR. The agreement was signed on December 23, 2008 and expands on 2 years. The transaction worth EUR 20.6 Million also includes the delivery of video survey and control equipments, systems covering around 400 km of railways part of the pan-European Corridor IV.
The project consists in the pursuit of the modernisation process of the railway power network and of the existing fleet of railway machines enabling the reduction of maintenance costs, ensuring interoperability conditions, aligning to European standards in terms of railway infrastructure availability, the quality of railway transport and maintaining traffic safety.
The projects developed by the joint-venture including Alstom Transport (France) and Alstom Transport Romania implies the complete modernisation of the traction equipments on the southern branch of Corridor IV starting from Arad to Craiova and which totals 12 substations and the related sectioning and sub-sectioning points.
The project financing is provided by a credit from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) granted to Electrificare CFR.
Maintaining in exploitation to a minimum level of technical conditions the obsolete electrification installations with long-exceeded operation cycle can cause the perturbation of the railway traffic and can affect the traffic safety thus increasing the risks of potential accidents or railway events. Works consist in the complete replacement of all electric equipments, including foundations and supports.
The modernisation works will be carried out simultaneously in four substations to ensure the permanent and uninterrupted power supply of the overhead line and thus a continuous railway traffic.
The modernisation process is deve-loped using performing equipments that meet the current Romanian and European standards and which have been delivered by Romanian and foreign suppliers and certified by AFER. The substations include remote command and control equipments that permit their operation without the permanent presence of the human factor.
These equipments, as Alstom Transport Romania’s representative reveals, permit the interconnection of all traction substations with the power dispatch office in the area and their centralised operation for massive energy savings. All equipments used in the process have a low maintenance cycle thus triggering less operating costs.
At the moment, the first four substations are finalized and charged starting with the 15th of November and then the beneficiary, Electrificare CFR, will carry out the final reception.
The modernisation of a new 4-substation lot will be then launched, all the 12 above-mentioned substations being due in 2012.
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