Established Expertise
Our specialists in transmission and distribution, wind generation, and environmental technologies provide advanced capabilities in:
- System Impact & Network Penetration Assessments
- Grounding / Bonding and Lightning Performance Assessments
- Cable Assessments
- Generator Commissioning and Condition Assessment
- Seismic, Vibration & Dynamic Load Assessments
- Substation Commissioning & Assessment
- Protection and Control (including IEC 61850)
- Foundation & Tower Design
- Environmental Impacts and Mitigation
- Integration with Smart Grid Initiatives
- Distributed Generation (DG)
System Impact & Network Penetration Assessments
- Impact studies of wind generation on system operations, and assessment of the effects of various wind generation penetrations
Grounding Services
- Wind power plant grounding, overvoltage protection and insulation coordination studies for wind generation
Lightning / Lightning Protection Systems (LPS)
- DG Lightning Protection Systems (LPS) measurement and response, and lightning vulnerability
- Capabilities include evaluation and in-depth analysis using measurements and scale modelling, to validate existing bonding, shielding and grounding effectiveness
Cable Assessments
- Medium voltage (MV) cable asset condition assessment, including acceptance and diagnostic testing
- Hi-Pot overvoltage withstand tests (AC and VLF)
- Partial Discharge (PD) testing on and off-line
- Dissipation factor (DF) testing
- Dielectric Spectroscopy
Generators - Rotating Machine / Generator Condition Assessments
- Partial Discharge (on / off-line)
- IR / PI
- Capacitance and Loss
- TVA Probability
- AC Hi-Pot
- DC Ramp
- Corona Scope
- Acoustic Probability
- El Cid (LV assessment)
- RSO (LV assessment)
- Machine inspection / assessment, life extension studies, and failure investigation
Seismic, Vibration & Dynamic Load Assessments
- Mechanical Testing Lab
- Universal test machines
- Seismic tables
- Strong floor
- Environmental chambers
- Conductor Dynamics Laboratory
Foundation and Tower Design – Concrete and Materials Testing
- Tower foundation design
- Unique, specialized Concrete Materials Testing Lab
Substation Environmental Enhancement – Accessory Systems
- SorbWeb™ Plus system (secondary oil leak containment)
- PowerKage (passive non-electric fence designed to protect against animal intrusion and potential substation outages)
Protection and Control (P&C)
- Protection and Control (P&C) equipment interoperability and compatibility testing and validation to IEC 61850 standards
- Testing and certification of protection and control equipment and systems
Environmental Impacts & Site Assessments
- Establishment of baseline environmental conditions
- Development of monitoring programs – current and future environmental quality
- Contaminant transport assessments
- Environmental Assessments
- Interconnection
- Distributed Generation (DG) resource interconnection and impact studies
- Identifying and resolving standing issues for large-scale wind generators interconnected to local delivery distribution systems