Serving a Key Industry with Superior Expertise and Experience

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Utilities everywhere are facing an ongoing challenge to expand and improve service quality, optimize and extend asset life, and comply with increasing regulations, all within the strained confines of diminished resources, reduced budgets and aging systems.

Unrivalled expertise and experience

Kinectrics provides a full range of expert professional services to help Transmission and Distribution Utilities meet this challenge. Kinectrics’ unrivalled scientific and engineering expertise is founded on over ninety years experience solving the most demanding technical challenges for Ontario Hydro, one of North America’s largest utilities. Kinectrics offers on site state-of-the-art facilities and laboratories, managed by qualified scientists, engineers and other highly skilled fulltime professional personnel.

Kinectrics’ Transmission and Distribution Technologies Department comprises three main areas: Transmission Systems Asset Management and Condition Assessment, Distribution Services, Electrical Testing Certification and Metrology. Our technical capabilities for each area include:

Transmission Systems

Asset Management & Condition Assessment

• Asset management and condition assessment
• Inspection and assessment
• Interconnection and generation systems
• Power quality and systems performance
• Analysis of Power Flow for Managing Network Congestion, Siting New Generation and Reducing System Losses
• Analysis of maintenance policies on equipment life
• Failure analysis
• Diagnostic interpretation
• Testing for safety and performance
• Asset management and maintenance optimization
• Plant equipment condition assessment
• Design, evaluation, operation, maintenance, inspection and testing of large steam turbine-driven generators and auxiliary equipment for fossil and nuclear fueled generating stations
• System transient stability and reliability analyses
• Analysis of generator excitation systems and governors
• Simulation and testing of protective hardware systems
• Design and installation of real time rating systems for underground cables
• Ampacity calculations
• Optimization of outage scheduling
• Engineering studies and consulting
• Modeling and analysis
• Field testing

Distribution Systems

• Complete Distribution systems services
• Distribution reliability and safety
• Distribution asset management
• Distribution system planning & performance
• Specialized products (ARCPRO, Smart Systems SCADA and TRANSIZE)
• Failure analysis (DEFACS)
• Distribution Engineering & Consulting (DECON)
• Laboratory testing – High Voltage & High Current testing
• Review of maintenance practices

Electrical Testing Certification and Metrology

• High Voltage and High Current testing and product certification
• Specialized laboratory and mobile testing
• Safety equipment testing
• Root cause analysis and rectification of HV insulation failures
• Failure analysis and troubleshooting
• Engineering services and consulting
• Review of existing quality procedures, documentation, capabilities, objectives and certification requirements
• Fibre optic cable testing
• Complete qualification testing services
• Condition assessment of aged conductors and skywires
• Full range of mechanical testing for Utility components
• OEM product and specialized mechanical testing

For more information, contact:

(For Canada) Sam Peralta, 416.207.5931, samuel.peralta@kinectrics.com

(For USA & International) Russell Pennington, 704.948.4118, russell.pennington@kinectrics.com