Electrical Contracting News (ECN) May 2016 | Page 36

POWER DISTRIBUTION

Performance
In a bid to negate potential fire risks, oil
transformers are generally situated outside of
a building. Whilst this may be beneficial for
commercial properties in densely populated
areas such as Central London, in reality it
can have a knock-on effect on the overall
system efficiency. In fact, on the surface
there may seem little difference between
oil transformers and CRTs as