Fisher Arnold was privileged to work with Southwest Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation and Ford Motor Company to provide power to the 3,600-acre mega campus called Blue Oval City. This campus will house manufacturing facilities for Ford’s next generation electric truck, along with battery manufacturing facilities. Blue Oval required 200MW with full redundancy which consisted of four 60MVA 161/25kV transformers. Fisher Arnold was tasked with some unique requests such as parallel feeds within the Ford switchgear raising the fault current, which required reactors on the distribution side. Over the 12-acre substation yard, we quickly determined control cable voltage drop was going to be an issue. To solve this issue, we incorporated Time-Domain Link Technology replacing all copper control wiring with fiber, the first of its kind in the Valley. Fisher Arnold was tasked with assisting during preliminary/planning stages, substation design, bidding, construction engineering, relay protection scheme, and commissioning.
