Hello,
I'm struggling to get my head around the following:
I'm conducting earthing system design for a secondary substation with a 132/22/22kV YnYnYn transformer connected via overhead line to the upstream primary substation.
If an earth fault occurs directly onto the local earth mat, the impedance to the local 132kV neutral earth will logically be much less than the ground return path to the upstream primary substation's transformer 132kV neutral earth, hence ground return current will be negligible. Is EPR even a concern in this case?
Therefore the only situation I can imagine where the earth mat design will need consideration for EPR is if the earth fault appears in the cables connecting the substations, meaning ground current could flow to either neutral earth point via each of their earth mats?
However, my design software (ELEK Safegrid V8) appears to only provide fault cases where the earth current is injected directly to the local earth mat, and there is no option to attach a neutral-earth point (and no NER).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.