Connection point selection, concept design, pre-FEED, FEED, equipment specification, cable system design, substation earthing design, protection design, connection agreement application and subsequent negotiation and discussion.
Load Flow, Short Circuit / Fault Level, Harmonic (G5/4 - G5/5), Fault Ride Through / Stability, Voltage Control / Response (DRC), Transient / Switching /Inrush (P28), Loss Modelling, Insulation Co-ordination, Protection Co-ordination.
Review of studies, agreements, test procedures, witnessing tests, managing tests, results review, result submission.
Cable rating, cable specification, cable design, bonding design, joint bay earthing design, SVL specification. Specialist testing fault location services on HV and EHV cable (core and/or sheath) onshore and offshore (11kV to 400kV). Specialist in use of Distrusted Acoustic Sensing (DAS), Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), Line Impedance Resonant Analysis (LIRA), Damped AC (DAC), Very Low Frequency (VLF).
Owners Engineer, Expert Witness, Dissection Witnessing, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Manufacturing Witnessing, FAT and SAT Witnessing, Results /Document / RAMS Review. Authoring Employer's Requirements, Inspection and Test Plans (ITP), Test Procedures and Method Statements.
Opex and Capex models, loss models, revenue models, availability models, business case, investment decision, upgrade justification, extension, overplanting.
Protection philosophy, relay specification, VT and CT specification and protection settings and co-ordination. Testing/Commissioning/Maintenance including Overcurrent, Earth Fault, Directional, REF, Unit and G59/G99, CT analysis.