BY FRANK C. MONTAGNA AND ANTHONY J. NATALE
If you look, you will probably find that you have an electric substation in your response area. Have you responded to it? Have you entered it? Do you know the dangers that are waiting for you inside the substation’s gates? If you were to respond to it for a fire or another emergency, would you be able to operate safely to extinguish the fire or mitigate the emergency? These are questions that you should answer before your first response to an electric substation.
Electricity is produced at generating stations and routed to electric substations for distribution. There are two types of substations—transmission and distribution. Both act as transportation hubs for power. The differences between a transmission and a distribution substation are the voltage present and the destination of the electricity.
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