ERDA expands its HV partial discharge laboratory capacity

This expansion aims at assisting Indian manufacturers of high voltage electrical equipment.

Electrical Research and Development Association (ERDA), is pleased to announce enhancement of capacity of its High Voltage Partial Discharge Laboratory to 900kV, 2700kVA high voltage resonant test system with 900kV coupling capacitor, voltage divider and 600 kV standard capacitor. This enhancement will now allow evaluation upto 400 kV Electrical Equipment, at Vadodara. This laboratory has achieved an excellent world class background noise level of <2pC at 900 kV.

th October 2016. Evaluation of equipment upto 220kV voltage class started from June 2018. Finally the enhanced capacity of upto 400kV equipment evaluation is available from April 2022. This enhanced capacity of High Voltage Partial Discharge Laboratory has added a new feather in the cap to ERDA as it becomes the highest capacity HVPD Laboratory in the western region of India. All the High Voltage equipment manufacturers located in the western India shall be immensely benefitted with the commissioning of this enhanced capacity HVPD laboratory at ERDA Vadodara.