Abstract:When a short - circuit fault occurs in a substation,it is the current diffusing into ground that actually causes the safety trouble instead of the fault current. Shunt coefficient characterizes the shunt ability of grounding grid or overhead ground wires to fault current,so it can be used to analyze the distribution of short - circuit current. The shunt mechanism of short - circuit current is studied when a fault occurs in substation,a definition of shunt coefficient that is more suitable for engineering practice is proposed,and the numerical computation method of shunt coefficient is introduced. On this basis,the shunt coefficient and current diffusing into ground of Fuzhou 1 000 kV substation are calculated,and various factors affecting the shunt coefficient are analyzed. The results show that shunt coefficient of ground wire increases with the increase of substation grounding resistance and decreases with the increase of tower grounding resistance,the differences of shunt coefficient of ground wires is tiny when short - circuit fault occurs in 500 kV side and 1 000 kV side. With the increase of substation grounding resistance, the current diffusing into ground decreases and the ground potential rise increases.