SYSTEM PLANNING AND POWER SYSTEM STUDIES

Success doesn't just happen, it requires good planning. That's where we come in.

Every successful project starts with sound planning. Whether determining the optimum site for a new substation, relieving an overloaded circuit, or interconnecting between systems, ICPE can provide essential analysis and planning services to help Owners understand and expand their systems, optimizing their performance in order to meet their goals. ICPE provides electrical systems analyses to utilities, independent power producers, governmental agencies, industrial firms, and construction contractors providing turnkey services.

ICPE engineers are experienced in load flow and stability analysis, and interconnect studies. ICPE transmission and distribution planners work with the most up to date software to develop accurate forward-looking studies, power system performance models and construction work plans. Short and long term plans present practical alternatives while balancing cost, capacity, performance and reliability. ICPE engineers have experience with electrical generation, transmission, and distribution facilities and at voltages from 480V through 345 kV.

Once engineering studies are complete, ICPE can provide the utility protective relaying and automation services necessary to ensure seamless protection, substation integration and SCADA systems. ICPE’s experience in protective coordination includes complex transmission line relaying, isolated generation systems, distribution protective coordination studies and specialized relay applications.

Key planning assistance that ICPE can provide could include, but not be limited to:

Planning Studies

• Transmission and substation feasibility studies

• Transmission system planning studies (short and long range)

• Distribution planning studies (short and long range)

• Generation interconnection (plant location) studies

• Power supply planning studies

• Transmission and substation feasibility studies

• Transmission system or substation reliability/contingency analyses

• Economic analyses

• Load flow analysis and stability studies

• Reactive Power/VAR Flow Studies

• Voltage Drop Analysis

• Construction Work Plans

• Insulation Coordination Studies

• Sectionalizing Studies

• Electromagnetic transient analysis

• Impedance calculations for overhead and underground transmission and transformers

• NERC compliance ratings calculations, system studies, planning documents and protection device coordination studies

Protective Device Studies

• Protective device application, coordination, and settings

• Arc flash analysis

• Short circuit and breaker application studies

Design Support

• Electromagnetic field (EMF) mitigation studies

• Radio and television interference calculations and measurements

• Audible noise calculations and measurements

• Ground resistivity calculations and analysis

• Power system harmonic measurements and analysis

• ISO generator interconnection studies and interconnection agreements