Electrical Design
Developing and delivering innovative electrical design solutions that enhance power plant safety and reliability.
Our Global Team
Canada
Marcy Sanderson
VP, Strategic Growth and Innovation, CanadaElectrical Design Overview
Electrical design is a key part of the overall engineering design process that is used across a power station from the generators to the transformers and from the breakers to the switchgear to ensure safe and reliable power production. It is a highly specialized engineering discipline.
With such significance in terms of safety and reliability, it is especially important that the design process, while allowing innovation and modernization, is properly controlled and regimented.
We appreciate your electrical design needs, using our innovative approach and broad range of expertise and your design change processes to deliver optimum and compliant solutions. Whether your need is for power distribution design, integration of new vendor-sourced equipment, or a condition assessment, we will support your needs.
Why Our Electrical Design Services?
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Innovation and Compliance
We work closely with you, adopting your change control procedures while leveraging our comprehensive knowledge of codes, standards, and regulatory requirements and our innovative, cross-cutting approach to deliver optimum, deployable, solutions.
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Comprehensive Service
You can rely on us for all your electrical design engineering needs as our service includes condition assessment, troubleshooting, problem definition, and solution development for every electrical system on a power generation site.
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State-of-the-Art Solutions
Our ongoing electrical design activity ensures that our knowledge of regulatory requirements, technology development, and supplier capabilities remain current so that we are always able to develop the state-of-the-art solution that you need.
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Full Suite of Design Tools
The tools we use include an electrical transient analyzer program for load analysis, Paladin® Real-Time Arc Flash Advisor™ for arc flash assessments, and commercial software for all relay logic programming.
Our Electrical Design Technical Abilities
Power Distribution Design and Analysis
Design and analysis services for generating station power upgrades and modifications including:
- Load Flow
- Short Circuit & Protection Coordination Studies
Vendor Coordination
We coordinate equipment and services with an assortment of vendors using our existing extensive vendor relationships.
- Sourcing Equipment from Multiple Vendors
- Assessment & Integration of Vendor-Sourced Equipment with Existing Infrastructure
- Specific Equipment Examples Include:
- Motor Control Centers
- Switchgears
- Transformers & Transformer Monitoring Equipment
Electrical Equipment Condition Assessments
We complete condition assessments for a range of electrical equipment including:
- Transformers
- Breakers
- Switchgears
- Motors & Motor Control Centers
- Generators
- As well as other power plant electrical equipment.
Electrical Software and Tools
We use a variety of programs to help ensure the success of designs, including:
- Electrical Transient Analyzer Program (ETAP) for Load Analysis and More
- EDSA for Completing Arc Flash Studies
- Relay Logic Programming, Setting & Coordination Software (GE, SEL, Schneider, ABB, etc.)
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Our Proven Experience
Quality Assurance & Technical Standards
- CSA C22.1-21 (2021)
- Canadian Electrical Code Part I (25th edition), Safety Standard for Electrical Installations
- CSA C22.2 NO. 0-10 (2015)
- General Requirements – Canadian Electrical Code, Part II
- CSA N299.1:16 (2016)
- Quality Assurance Program Requirements for the Supply of Items and Services for Nuclear Power Plants, Category 1
- MDP-RUL-0002 (2021)
- IESO Market Rules for Ontario Electricity Market
- OESC - 2021 (2021)
- Ontario Electrical Safety Code, 28th Edition
Key Clients
The Kinectrics Electrical Design Engineering Team offers catered state-of-the-art solutions from a highly qualified team. Kinectrics is dedicated to supporting the electrical design needs of nuclear utilities through all phases and areas of lifecycle management. In everything we do, our team strives for excellence.
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