Cable Life Cycle
Management Services
Your trusted partner for cable expertise
What differentiates Kinectrics as a cable life cycle
management services company is our ability to support all stages of the cable
life cycle to help ensure safe and reliable operation of your network with
data-driven, pragmatic investment decisions.
Electricity networks have been leaders in asset management
for decades. For most asset classes, there are detailed asset management plans
in place which are continuously improved and refined.
Underground cables are a vital and significant part of the
electricity network, but these assets have largely been forgotten from detailed
asset management plans. Historically, networks have benefitted from a high
degree of redundancy and surplus capacity in their circuits. Cable failures did
not necessarily lead to network failures and outages, and buried cables have
been out of sight, and out of mind.
As we transition to a net-zero carbon economy, electricity
networks will carry increasing demands, including higher loads, changing load
profiles and a need for greater flexibility. At the same time, regulatory
scrutiny is increasing to try and control costs while ensuring networks are
ready to meet these challenges.
In this context, proactive planning, measurement and
management of cable assets is becoming more important.
Our strength is offering services across the cable life
cycle. By combining materials and cable design expertise with lab and field
testing, we have insights into cable performance and ageing that nobody else
has. This lets us do the planning and asset strategies better than anybody
else.