(Going to the grassroots level in the New Year) The electricity guardians at Yanmen Pass: on duty to keep up with the New Year.

The operation and maintenance personnel of State Grid Shanxi Ultra-High Voltage Substation Company conducted a special inspection of the ±800 kV Yanmenguan converter station equipment. Photo courtesy of State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company

　　China News Service, Taiyuan, February 12th: Title: The electricity guardian at Yanmen Pass: on duty to watch the New Year.

　　Author Gao Yuqing Liu Yang Zhang Boran

　　"We need to focus on the changes in the secondary current of this current transformer. Now the temperature is getting lower and lower, and the data has a downward trend. We need to be careful about optical fiber faults causing protection malfunctions." On New Year's Eve, in the main control room of Shanxi Yanmenguan Converter Station, An on-duty worker said to his colleagues while checking the background parameters of the equipment on the computer.

　　She is Yuan Shuyuan, the only female technician in the DC maintenance class of the ±800 kV Yanmenguan Converter Station of the State Grid Shanxi Ultrahigh Voltage Substation Company. Although she has only been employed for a year and a half, she is already very familiar with the profession under the leadership of her senior master. As long as she has time, she will sit in front of the computer to study programs, read drawings and signal tables. She often takes her colleagues to the site to analyze whether the operation is normal based on the equipment.

Yuan Shuyuan is the only female technician in the DC maintenance class of the ±800 kV Yanmenguan Converter Station of State Grid Shanxi Ultrahigh Voltage Substation Company. Photo courtesy of State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company

　　"This is my first time celebrating the New Year at a transformer substation. Being on duty to ensure power makes me feel that my perseverance is valuable and my heart is warm." As a new force in the converter station, Yuan Shuyuan is full of curiosity and curiosity about everything in the station. enthusiasm.

　　Another duty officer who sticks to the post with her is Zhang Zhonghua, a technician in the operation and maintenance class. He has been the backbone of the converter station for nine years.

　　Zhang Zhonghua's home is in Pingyao, Jinzhong. Every time he goes to work, he has to cross four cities to reach the converter station. On the eve of the Spring Festival, he accompanied his wife and children to buy new year's goods. After settling down at home, he returned to work on time.

　　"It's the supply guarantee period during the Spring Festival, and the temperature has been very low recently. After checking the background data, let's take the leak detector and go to the site to check the condition of the air chamber." He and Yuan Shuyuan put on their scarves and gloves. Wrap yourself in thick cotton clothes, walk into the equipment area with a flashlight and instruments, and conduct a special inspection of the equipment. The two of them walked along the equipment area and checked all the air chambers one by one. When they returned to the main control room, their hands and feet were already frozen.

For Yanmenguan converter station operation and maintenance personnel, conducting inspection operations in extremely cold weather has long become a habit. Photo courtesy of State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company

　　For Yanmenguan converter station operation and maintenance personnel, conducting inspection operations in extremely cold weather has long become a habit. "Thinking that our hard work is meaningful and that we can protect the lights of thousands of households during the Spring Festival, it is worth enduring the cold." Zhang Zhonghua said, "It is nothing new for us that we cannot go home for the Spring Festival. . The importance of ensuring power supply during the Spring Festival can be imagined. From on-site inspections, data inspection to back-end analysis and comparison, etc., there must be no slack in every step."

　　After the work, all station personnel of Yanmenguan Converter Station came to the conference room of the main control building to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Deputy station director Zhao Yuting said: "Although the outdoor temperature has dropped a lot today, everyone gathered here to watch the Spring Festival Gala and stayed on duty to keep up with the New Year. I felt very at ease and warm."

On New Year's Eve, the operation and maintenance personnel of Shanxi Yanmenguan Converter Station stick to their posts. Photo courtesy of State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company

　　As an important part of the "West-to-East Power Transmission" energy strategy, Yanmenguan Converter Station has always maintained safe and efficient operation, and the power delivered has repeatedly hit new highs, reaching 46.75 billion kilowatt-hours in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 26%.

　　Yanmenguan Converter Station continues to transport the abundant thermal power and wind power resources in northern Shanxi to East China, greatly improving the new energy consumption level of Shanxi Power Grid, effectively alleviating the tight power supply and demand situation in East China during peak hours, and playing a key role in promoting the development of Shanxi's energy base and energy export. It is of great significance to transport, expand the scope of new energy consumption, accelerate the energy revolution and transformation, and alleviate the pressure on environmental protection, providing a stable energy supply to achieve the "double carbon" goal. (over)