The need to satisfy increased customer reliability expectations while operating in a difficult, cost-conscious competitive environment has encouraged many utilities to refurbish, or build substations with integrated protection, control, monitoring and metering systems.
Kinectrics’ SA specialists can effectively assist vendors and utilities in this process and enable them to avoid costly issues and problems during the integration, operation and maintenance phases.
Substation Automation (SA) Services
- Modern Substation Automation Design
- Preparation of migration strategy guidelines and specifications for conventional SA system with obsolete components to the modern SA system with open protocols—with cost and benefit analysis
- Component evaluations
- System architecture evaluations
- SA technical bid preparation and evaluation
- Project supervision, management and consulting
Protection and Control
- Preparation of specification and protection SLD
- Technical bid document preparation and evaluation
- Protection and control product evaluation
- Protection homologation tests
- Technical Project supervision and consulting
- 24/7 Fault analysis service
- Case simulation in closed loop with RTDS
- Setting investigation
- Scheme verification
