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The main advantage of gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) over AIS or MTS is its compactness which has a direct influence on land requirement, land cost, visual impact, and possible technical applications. The compact size offers high variety in design which in turn allows indoor, outdoor, underground, hybrid, and containerized installations (even for temporary operation). A modular design of GIS in connection with its compactness allows specific site requirements to be met to an extent higher than it is possible for AIS.
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Glaubitz, P., Siebert, C., Zuber, K. (2019). Why Choose GIS?. In: Krieg, T., Finn, J. (eds) Substations. CIGRE Green Books. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49574-3_15
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