Feche Power and Telecommunication Report On Exist Rough
Feche Power and Telecommunication Report On Exist Rough
1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction and Purpose
1.2 Contract Data
1.3 Scope of Services and Objectives
1.3.1 Objective of Project
1.3.2 The Scope of Project Services
2. Project Description
2.1 Type of Project
2.2 Location
2.3 Project Background
3. Review of Existing Electric Power and Telecommunication
3.1 The Existing Power Supply
3.2 Alternative Electric Power Source for Feche Site.
3.3 An Existing Telecommunication
4. Telecommunication
4.1 Over view
4.2 Proposed Telecommunication Plan for Feche Site.
4.2.2 Back Ground of Design Works
4.3 Full- Service Optical Access Network
4.3.1 Introduction
4.3.2 Optical Fiber
4.3.3 Optical Access Network Architecture
4.3.3.1 Point to Point Architecture
4.3.3.2 Ring Architecture
4.3.3.3 Point-to-multipoint architecture
4.3.3.4 Optical transmission performance for optical access networks
4.3.3.5 Point-to-multipoint architecture
5. Electric Power
5.1 Overview
5.2 Planning and design of the medium voltage network
5.3 The operation approach of the power supply system
5.4 The selection of equipment
5.5 The fundamental structure of the power system configuration (topology)
5.5.1 Selection of the new substations locations
5.6 Selection of Topology
5.6.1 Radial Topology
5.6.2 Ring Topology
List of Figures
Figure 2.1 Location of the Project
Figure 2.2 Small Village nest to condominium
Figure 3.1 Picture Sample of transformer and High Tension
Figure 3.2 Picture for sample transformer and LV electric line
Figure 3.3 Sub-Station –Salo Gora Gelan condominium
Figure 3.4 Gelan condominium Sub-station
Figure 3.5 telecom tower electric utility
Figure 5.1 Typical radial topology
Figure 5.2 Typical Ring topology
Figure 5.3 SCADA block diagram system
Figure 5.4 Nomo solar pole Lighting
List of Tables
Table: 1.1 Project Data for Feche site
The project is aimed at providing the high‐class basic infrastructure development that can
contribute to the regional, national, and international prospect investors creating opportunities to
participate in the diverse impact and export trades and manufacturing activities.
Since, smart city is a place where traditional networks and services are made more flexible,
efficient, and sustainable with the use of information, digital and telecommunication technologies,
to improve its operations for the benefit of its inhabitants. Smart cities are greener, safer, faster
and friendlier. The different components of a smart city include smart infrastructure, smart
transportation, smart energy, smart healthcare, and smart technology. These components are what
makes the cities smart and efficient. Information and communication technology (ICT) are
enabling keys for transforming traditional cities to smart cities.
The purpose of this report is to describe the current status of electric power, street light and telecom
infrastructure level in the area. It illustrates the overall infrastructure accessibility within the
selected site. Type of telecom system, transmission system and power supply and its distribution
mode of the community.
1.2 Contract Data
Project Name Sheger City Administration
The Consultancy services shall be carried following generally accepted standards of professional
practice, following recognized engineering procedures. The Consultant’s scope of work is to
Prepare Neighborhood Development Plan for different five sites, produce detailed engineering
designs for infrastructure and utilities in the NDP including roads, water supply,
sewerage, wastewater treatment plant, power, telecom, and solid waste site. The general scope of
the service covers the following major tasks.
Carry out the necessary field investigation including all field works like site visits, data
collection from the project site.
Carry out preliminary and final design works covering preparation of preliminary design
and final design.
Identifying and evaluating of the existing utilities, and preparing the existing statues and
the proposals.
2. Project Description
2.1 Type of Project
The project has proposed to launch Neighborhood Development Plan which is an action- oriented
development basis to improve the living standard inhabitants significantly.
2.2 Location
The site is located at about 8.8684° latitude 38.8334° longitude.
Region/Zone ECO
Length/Capacity
Climate Classification
The project site covers an agriculture land. There are only three rural kebels which don’t have
access to electricity. But, the small residents/settler which is adjustment to Tullu Dimtu
The detail of power distribution and nearby power sub-station are mentioned below…
The rural community that included don’t have access to electricity. They have never
However, the town /village located next to condominium has electric power line.
15kv line covers not more than 3km in town. We have observed four small
transformers with size of 315KVA which were placed for Grinding Mill. The
surrounding community have got electric utility from these four transformer.
poles line with 15/33KV which has been passed beside Feche project site from
On the other hand, two parallel tower carrying high tension of 132kV capacity,
which connection is from Akaki sub-station has cut through Feche project site.
Akaki Sub-station II which located near Gelan town near ganda Kore specific
area. It is 7km far from Feche site.
The second sub-station is Akaki-Kality substation. It is one of the largest Sub-
station, and found at Salo Gora, near Gelan condominium. This is 8km far from our
site.
The above mentioned electric power source are the nearest sub-stations to Feche project. At this
time, it will not be sure if it has sufficient capacity that is reliable for smart city. The total load
estimation should be forecasted to decide about sub-station.
Fig 3.3:Sub-Station –Salo Gora Gelan condominium
Regarding to wire transmission, telecom service through wire (copper or optical fiber) has not been
installed within the project area.
4.1 Overview
Telecommunication systems play a very important role in the infrastructure of smart cities. An
excess of networked devices interact to provide safe, convenient and environmentally conscious
new services. Residents in smart cities can enjoy their lives using these services, seamlessly and
without being aware of the existence of the networks.
In cities, transportation, distribution, finance, and energy services are connected to networks and
interact to provide more reliable, convenient, and environmentally conscious new services.
Residents in smart cities will have seamless access to these services without needing to know about
the networks on which they are based.
Recognizing the crucial role of telecommunication sector in the entire economic activities and
impact on growth and developments governors in different regime in the last century have been
attempting to expand this service for citizens, though at different scale. A structurally different
communication institution had and has been established all along in telecommunication history of
the country. In our country, recently the responsible institution to render this service is the
Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC). This sector structure has stretched down from
national level up to sub areas.
ETC has been monopolistically providing nationwide telecommunications services since 1996.
These are including consisting of:
Telephone Service is calls which including voice, voicemail and conference and data calls, and
supplementary services that including call forwarding and call transfer. It is also messaging and
multi-media services.
The provision of nationwide telephone service to fulfill the waiting demand is current core activity
for ETC and has been accelerated recent years. From a viewpoint of accessibility to the telephone
service, most of the regions except certain areas (including rural areas) have been covered to some
extent by the telephone network
A service available to the public for originating and receiving national and international calls and
access to emergency services through a telephone number or numbers in a national or
international telephone
ETC is providing public payphones in a nationwide basis. Since the start of the public payphone
service, ETC established 935 coin telephones as of 2001, and starting card phone system in early
2002. However, the number of public telephones is insufficient compare with other telecom
communication.
A mobile phone or cellphone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio
frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-
location phone landline phone. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching
systems of a mobile phone operator, which provides access to the public switched telephone
network PSTN. Modern mobile telephone services use a cellular network architecture and
therefore mobile telephones are called cellphones cell phones in North America. In addition
to telephony, digital mobile phones support a variety of other services, such as text
messaging, multimedia messaging, email, Internet access (via LTE, 5G or Wi-Fi), short-range
wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), satellite access (navigation, messaging
connectivity), business applications, video games and digital photography. Mobile phones offering
only basic capabilities are known as feature phones; mobile phones which offer greatly advanced
computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones.
In 1999 ETC entered into Mobile-phone Service. In 2001, the service covers urban and suburb
areas of Addis Ababa and metropolitan. Nowadays, compare to other countries, Ethiopia is
massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code
+251, there were a total of 65.39 million connections in 2021. Among them were 64.50 million
mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.54 per person.
Gigaband Solution – Gigabit broadband is an internet connection that offers a speed of 1 gigabit
per second (1Gbps/1GB) or more. The proposed design can accommodate this and has the
following characteristics.
Smart Transportation
Smart Energy and Water
E – Healthcare
Smart Logistics
Smart Garbage Disposal
Smart Agriculture
Smart Lighting, Smart Parking, Smart Transit, Smart Waste Management, Video Surveil
lance, robotic network, etc
Digital Transformation – This is the result of the gigaband solution. With such an infrastructure
in place, the following things can be achieved.
Broadband
Main Data Centers, Backup data center, Satellite backup
Cloud Network
Big Data
Internet of things (IoT), SCADA, Robotic network
4K / VR / Game online
On‐demand fiber blowing to anywhere in the Feche project via the adopted flexible micro‐
duct pipe and spare fiber in the feeder network is achievable.
Backbone network
• No existing fiber route in the site that cross the Feche area
• Permanent new fiber route, pipe, and manhole facility design
Based on ITU‐T L.90 recommendation progress on multimedia technologies has led to the active
development of many kinds of broadband services such as data and video communication using
access networks. High‐speed broadband networks must be developed economically to provide
such services to all subscribers. To provide these services in a timely way, it is necessary to
construct optical access networks quickly, efficiently, and cost‐effectively. However, recent
progress in the application of optical plant technology in local access networks has provided
substantial technical and economical experiences in several countries. Considering this, the
network design must take into account planning, construction, maintenance, and operation. Here,
an optical access network is defined as a network of optical fiber cables that extend from a carrier's
central office to the cabinets, buildings, individual homes, apartment blocks, or business offices
for broadband services.
A suitable choice of fiber and splicing technology should be made. Single‐mode fiber, normally
compliant with [ITU‐T G.652] and [ITU‐T G.657], is the most appropriate for a wide range of
telecommunication services in the local distribution network since this fiber benefits from
economy of scale and has long‐term potential utility for future services. With the current usage of
single‐mode fiber, splicing techniques will allow typical splice losses of less than 0.5 dB to be
achieved.
As per ITU-T recommendation, only ITU-T G.657 category A fibers are compatible with ITU-T
with G.652 fibers. Using other fiber types will increase the uncertainty regarding the splice value
and compatibility issue.
5. Electric Power
5.1 Overview
It is quite evident that the energy sector has an important role to play and remarkably accelerates
the development effort of a country. Assured electricity supply is one of the core infrastructure
elements of a Smart City along with water supply, sanitation, robust IT connectivity, public
transport etc. The Shaggar City Administration announced a five of NDP projects. A Smart City
would include different types of land uses like residential, commercial, IT, hospitals, hotels etc.
Despite its enormous potential, however, Ethiopia has one of the lowest levels of energy
consumption per capita in the world, 28 kWh. Various sources confirm that only about 14% of
the population has access to electricity.
The use of electricity first started in Ethiopia in the late 19th century during the reign of Menilk II
(1898). Following its introduction, when its use was confined only to the palace, new and
additional generators were installed to meet the growing demands for industrial and urban
development.
Yearly electric power production potential from all major rivers is estimated at 60 billion kWh and
unknown but enormous potential exists from geothermal energy and gas. The actual aggregate
production capacity of electricity power from hydro and geothermal electric power plants amounts
1,665,812 MWH of which 1,217,922 is produced by Melka Wakena and Fincha hydro plants.
The processes of industrial and urban development, together with rising standards of living,
influence the patterns of power consumption. Consumption from all power plants amounted to
1375.8 GWh in the year 2002, but in terms of national per capita consumption of power for one
year (2000) this amounted to only 22.31 kWh which is very small, even by African standards and
a major proportion of this low level of consumption is confined to major cities like Addis Ababa,
Adama, Dire Dawa, Bahir Dar, Mekele and Awassa.
Nevertheless, electric power consumption in various towns has shown a steady increase since
1995, following improvements made in the existing industrial units and the establishment of new
ones. Industrial consumption (in 2000) was 38.67%, domestic consumption 36.6%, commercial
establishment 23.95%, streetlight 0.68% etc.
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation is currently the responsible institute to administer 501 MW
installed capacity, of which 472.6MW is hydroelectric and 28MW thermal power. The installed
generating capacity is estimated to reach 1110 MW and 1745 MW by the years 2010 and 2015
respectively. Over 98% of the total generation in the country comes from the hydropower sources.
EEPCO is responsible for power generation, transmission, distribution and sales of electricity all
over the nation. EEPCO's mission is to be a leading electricity provider through an integrated and
universal electrification scheme to meet the socio-economic development and environmental
protection needs of the public. EPPCO sources indicate that currently it provides electricity to over
680.325 customers in approximately 479 towns, which is small coverage for a country, with over
70 million population.
This article covers the various aspects of power distribution system design in smart cities.
Key Features The key features of the power distribution system shall be as follows:
• Reliability-
• Uninterrupted and Quality supply
• Smart Sustainable
• Expandable.
The aim of planning electrical power systems is to fully serve the interests of the consumers to be
supplied with electricity. To determine the configuration of the power system in terms of technical,
operational, and economic criteria, planning principles have to be defined and used. The reliability
of the power supply system (Power station, transmission, and distribution system, etc.) is
influenced by:
The operational mode of the power supply system
The selection of equipment
The fundamental structure of the power system configuration (topology)
Understandably, 100% security and reliability of electrical power supply cannot be achieved. In
each case, a compromise between supply reliability, the design of the system, the operation
requirements, the interest of consumers, and the expected investment cost are to be considered. The
power system in the Feche site may be characterized into three different subsystems according to
its tasks.
The high voltage transmission grid – Its major task is the transportation of electrical
energy over long distances.
Distribution systems with 33KV – This serves as a network of distribution in urban
population centers. Industrial suppliers and high power demanding customers are
provided directly from the 33KV line.
LV distribution with 480/220V – This is mainly done for individual residential
customers.
The mode of operation is the first major element in the architecture of the power network. There
are mainly two modes i.e. overhead and underground. The general understanding is that the
underground cables are laid beneath the ground and the overhead cables are visible overhead. But
apart from this, there are many significant features of both the types of these cables from the
perspectives of electrical power transmission or distribution. In the changed scenario of the power
system design, particularly, the distribution system, the cables, and their characteristics have
become highly selective and the technological advancements have also made the selection of cable
for a particular application more flexible. Several factors are affecting the selection of overhead or
underground transmission
System cost‐ the underground system is more expensive than the overhead system. Safety ‐ as the
conductors are constantly exposed to the open atmosphere, there are several concerns related to
the safety of the system and also reliability. The adverse conditions like heavy rain, wind, snowfall,
humid and salty contents in the air could deteriorate the lifespan of these conductors and raise
serious electrical safety concerns. The underground system is not susceptible to such
environmental problems.
Suitability for long‐distance – Overhead installation is more suitable for long distances.
However, in our design, we provided switching stations as intermediate facilities to minimize the
distances.
Appearance – Overhead installations are traditional and are not good aesthetically. Although the
overhead installations seem a good fit, the underground cables have several advantages over the
overhead lines; they have smaller voltage drops, low chances of developing faults and have low
maintenance costs. Recent developments in cable technology make the underground cable more
relevant and popular. Our research and experiences also lead us to use underground installations
as most new settlements around the globe chose underground installation.
The selection of operation mode defines the type of conductor used in our system which is
underground cable. The next step is deciding the voltage level and hence deciding the subsequent
equipment. The voltage levels are selected based on IEC recommended system voltages and EEP
distribution voltage recommendations. The voltage level of the nearby substations also influences
the type of transformers at the substation.
What are the magnitudes of initial loads and expected loads after 5, 10, 20
years?
What is the likely transformer capacity required? How many transformers
will be required and will it be better to put in a smaller size and then
increase ratings later, e.g. after 10 years?
Proximity to the load center keeping in view the future load growth.
The orientation of the proposed incoming lines to be terminated at the
substations.
Is there a suitable route for the 132kV supply to this site?
Can the 230kV/132kV line be routed to this site without constraints?
What site facilities and buildings will be required?
What minimum plot dimensions are needed for the substation?
Are there any sensitive installations nearby – e.g. telephone exchanges,
hospitals?
What type of switch gear will be best, outdoor 33KV, indoor 15KV, or some
other combination?
Calculation of substation fault levels and conductor ratings.
The cost of setting up a new substation
5.6 Selection of Topology
There are two main typologies in the power distribution system i.e. Radial and Ring and
The simplest kind of ring‐main system is obtained by connecting the lines ends back to the
feeding station. The system is characterized by:
Clear and simple structure
Loading of lines during normal operation is 50% of the
permissible loading, higher loading possible depending on the
load duration.
Reserve for one line outage is guaranteed.
System losses can be minimized.
Flexibility to respond to changing load conditions.
Standardization of cross‐sections.
A Ring main typology is selected for the power distribution as it is the most reliable.
From the substations, outgoing circuits are provided to all the nearest loads. In most cases,
a single feeder is considered for all the blocks. The main distribution element at each block
is the switching station. The switching stations are the main instruments in utilizing the full
benefits of the ring typology as shown in Fig 4.4. The switching stations are placed closer
to the loads. This will benefit in the following ways:
Reduced losses
Risk containment and mitigation
Will give a chance for future distributed energy resources
5.8 Distribution System Remote Monitoring
The control of the substation, monitoring of the status of the switchgear, feeder loads, and
transformer loading, metering, and other parameters can be remotely monitored. The
choice of a SCADA system will impose technical requirements that will need to be
incorporated in the substation and distribution design.
A SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is an automation control system that
is used in industries such as energy, oil and gas, water, power, and many more. The system
has a centralized system that monitors and controls entire sites, ranging from an industrial
plant to a complex of plants across the country. A SCADA system works by operating with
signals that communicate via channels to provide the user with remote controls of any
equipment in a given system. It also implements a distributed database, or tag database,
that contains tags or points throughout the plant. These points represent a single input or
output value that is monitored or controlled by the SCADA system in the centralized control
room. The points are stored in the distributed database as value‐timestamp pairs. It's very
common to set up the SCADA systems to also acquire metadata, such as programmable
logic controller (PLC) register paths and alarm statistics.
While these systems simplify a given infrastructure, their components are quite complex.
There are five essential parts of a SCADA system as shown in Fig 4.6.
We incorporated the SCADA system in our distribution plan as it fits the technical requirement and it is
already utilized by Ethiopian Electric Power for remote monitoring. The main control station will be at
the substations and each switching station is connected to the control room via fiber optic cables.
6. Finding
In generally, the following points are provided concerning about the Feche site.
1. There is no telecom center, telecom tower and fiber transmission line across the Feche site.
However, two telecom tower at the border of the project site from Tullu Dimtu
condominium side.
2. There are no medium or low voltage transmission line supplied for villages found in this
area, but the village neighboring
3. No substation surrounding the project site.
4. However, two line of high tension which transport power to northern parts has passed over
the area.
5. Consequently, since most of the land bounded for this purpose is farmland and there are
not power supply line, substation and telecom center in the area, we should consider power
supply and telecom service as if there are no such exist service in the area. So, the initial
data and inputs while we are doing study and design of power and telecom service, should
be the land use and categories we may get from the designed urban of Feche smart c