Abstract:
Electrical power can be generated from
renewable and non-renewable energy sources in the world.
Ethiopia blessed by renewable energy sources in the East
Africa. Ethiopia Electrical Power Corporation has been
constructed huge clean renewable Energy for national as well as
for neighboring countries. The potential to generate electric
power from only hydro plant is 45,000 MW in Ethiopia.
Currently generated power transmission takes place by High
Voltage Alternate Current (HVAC) overhead systems to inside
and outside of Ethiopia. This paper is to develop high voltage
direct current (HVDC) technologies instead of HVAC system
from Wolayta Sodo at Ethiopian side Suswa at Kenyan side.
This HVDC link between Wolayta Sodo and Suswa, consisting
of about 1,045 km of high voltage direct current ±500 kV,
2000MW capacity. The intention of this work is to develop
bipolar HVDC overhead system and analyze the system
performance with and without fault in AC side can be carried
out using MATLAB/Simulink.
