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Power quality investigations, field to plant

Load-balance switching study

MV cable and transformer specifications

Food-plant freeze tunnel feasibility

Automated MV transfer-tie for a datacenter

1000 HP motor-start feasibility studies

Remote revenue metering for an industrial customer

Gas plant alternate-feed study

A rural electric association serves a large gas processing plant and needed to evaluate an alternate feed from its six-feeder substation. Our team performed the distribution study end to end, and validated the models before trusting them.

Study one-line: existing and alternate feeds to the plant.
Study one-line: existing and alternate feeds to the plant.

MODEL VALIDATION FIRST

The association’s GIS was compared against its WindMil engineering model. Conductor data, load allocation, and equipment records were spot-checked and corrections documented before any analysis ran.

Voltage profile under the alternate feed.
Voltage profile under the alternate feed.

POWER FLOW, FAULTS, COORDINATION

Existing and alternate configurations were analyzed for the plant load, fault duties were run from the transmission provider’s source models, and time-current coordination was developed for the affected feeders.

Coordination chain for the affected feeders.
Coordination chain for the affected feeders.
Per-device recommendation sheets, one page per device, generated with FDR, our in-house analysis tool.
Per-device recommendation sheets, one page per device, generated with FDR, our in-house analysis tool.

Validate the model first, so the recommendations stand on checked data.

BOTTOM LINE

  • A client needed a yes-or-no on an alternate feed for their biggest customer.
  • Our team checked the data, ran the study, and delivered settings they could load.

Twenty poles, five utilities, four weeks

A gas utility committed to installing AMI meter-reading radios across Western Washington and needed approvals for 20 pole attachments spanning multiple electric utilities and jurisdictions, on a four-week clock. Our team delivered every submittal package on time.

Field data collection at an attachment site.
Field data collection at an attachment site.

FIELD TO SUBMITTAL, FAST

Immediate field data collection at each location, followed by pole loading and clearance analysis and the drawings each jurisdiction required for approval.

Attachment detail from a submittal package.
Attachment detail from a submittal package.

Twenty poles, five utilities, four weeks. Joint use rewards the prepared.

BOTTOM LINE

  • A client needed twenty jurisdiction-ready packages in a month.
  • Our team collected, analyzed, and shipped all twenty.

FROM THE SUBMITTAL PACKAGES

Pole loading analysis, attachment site
Pole loading analysis, attachment site
Clearance evaluation detail
Clearance evaluation detail
Attachment construction detail
Attachment construction detail
Field data collection summary
Field data collection summary
Make-ready analysis
Make-ready analysis
Submittal package drawing
Submittal package drawing

URD extension for an EV truck-charging station