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MCW/AGE Power Consultants are a single-source for High Voltage Engineering design. Our team of experts has been assembled from a wide variety of backgrounds and key associations to ensure a complete cross-section of proficiency is available to
our customers.
Our services include conceptual design, detailed
design and construction management services for transmission, distribution and generation projects.
Our experienced team of professionals posses a thorough knowledge of all the applicable codes, operating practices and utility requirements including NERC, FERC, NPCC regulations and IESO market rules.
The following provides a complete description of the services we can provide: |
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• Feasibility studies and design reviews
• Alternative preliminary designs of new and extension to existing substations
• Prepare civil, structural, mechanical and electrical designs
• Prepare equipment layout arrangements for substation yard and control building
• Prepare detailed electrical design including: optimisation of substation bus design,
ampacity calculations, three wire diagrams, wiring connection diagrams, power cable
arrangement, station services AC and DC, building services
• Design cable raceway (trench or conduit) within substation yard
• Prepare designs for substation grounding grids to control the ground potential rise,
step and touch potentials, to ensure the safety of equipment and personnel
• Design and development of integrated communications and protective relaying and
control systems, including automatic meter reading (revenue and monitoring)
• Distribution automation and SCADA
• Measurement and analysis of Power Quality Issues
• Prepare equipment specifications |
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| Overhead Transmission/Distribution Lines |
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• Design of new lines and refurbishment of aged lines (25kV to 500kV)
• Route selection and survey
• Wood and steel tower structure and hardware designs
• Conductor specifications
• Lightning protection
• Voltage regulation studies
• System optimisation
• System protection
• Grounding design |
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| Underground Transmission/Distribution Lines |
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• Obtain load transfer requirements (MVA, V, I sc)
• Determine preferred route (based on technical, environmental and cost impacts)
• Determine optimum cable route layout (direct buried, duct banks, directional drillings,
tunnels, any combination)
• Prepare cable specifications
• Determine ambient conditions (soil types, temperatures, special crossings)
• Determine and design joint locations and cable terminations points
• Prepare layout and arrangement of terminating area
• Obtain stakeholder route approval (utilities, jurisdictions, private owners) |
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| Protection and Control |
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• Prepare detailed protection and control design specifications
• Prepare protective relaying coordination study and relay settings
• Prepare short circuit calculations
• Prepare elementary/connection wiring diagrams
• Determine fault calculations and protective relay settings for all relays as specified in
the design
• Asset condition evaluation and report on protection and control and communication
equipment
• Testing & commissioning complete with in-service report |
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| Specialized Services |
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• Load flow, system stability, voltage transient system modelling using computer
program |
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| Power System Analysis & Quality Studies |
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• Power quality monitoring using Dranetz Power Analyzers
• Power factor and harmonic studies (include compensation solutions)
• Static VAR Voltage compensation studies
• Magnetic field studies
• Conventional load flow and harmonic load flow studies
• System frequency response studies
• Electro-magnetic transient analysis |
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| Project & Construction Management |
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• Prepare information to support management decisions
- Establish core team including customer representation
- Provide preliminary engineering for selected alternative proposals
- Analyze design proposals and purchasing strategies
- Prepare budgetary estimates and project schedules
- Prepare project execution plan
- Liaise with agencies and regulators
• Prepare tendering documents
- Coordinate preparation of environmental specifications
- Prepare project specifications including work and payment schedules, labour requirements, contract commercial conditions and project milestones
- Prepare commissioning procedures
- Obtain necessary permits and approvals from appropriate authorities on behalf of the client
• Analyze tenders
- Prepare a commercial and technical bid review
- Arrange pre-award meetings with acceptable bidders to finalize technical and commercial aspects and schedules
- Recommend successful bidder
• Construct
- Put in place a work progress and an earned value report, quality control and environmental monitoring and customer reporting program
- Provide project monitoring
- Provide contract administration
- Provide testing and commissioning
- Provide project close out
- Arrange training
- Prepare as-constructed documentation
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| Equipment and Software |
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• EDSA design and analysis software
• PSCAD/EMTDC Electro-Magnetic Transient Simulator
• PLSCAD Pole Line Design
• Dranetz Power Analyzers
• Fluke Harmonics Analyzers
• Digital Storage Oscilloscopes
• LEM Ground testing equipment
• ACR data loggers
• AutoCAD 2006 - Drawing production
• MS Office 2003
• MS Project 2003 |
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