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SUBSTATIONS

Service through partnership
Powerteam has over 50 years experience delivering substation projects for customers in GB and Ireland and fully understand the requirements and demands of the power industry. This experience and the diversity of projects undertaken leaves us well experienced to deliver complex and large-scale projects. We offer our clients bespoke innovative solutions delivered safely and to their precise specifications. Services include:

• Turnkey substations from 11kV to 400kV
• Electrical design
• Civil design
• Civil engineering works
• Condition assessment of substation equipment
• Maintenance
• Procurement of high voltage electrical equipment
• Installation of high voltage electrical equipment
• Design and installation of control and protection schemes
• Design risk analysis
• Supply of Senior Authorised Person (SAP) from LV to 132kV
• Underground cabling and jointing
• Installation of multi-core cabling
• Commissioning and testing
• Construction management
• Site health and safety management
• CDM (Construction Design Management) Principal Contractor project management role and Irish equivalent PSDC/PSCS - Principal Contractor Design/Construction stage
• Electrical engineering services including:
  • Load flow study
  • Earthing study
  • Fault level study
  • Current injection test
  • Protection grading study
  • PSSE study
  • Transformer in-rush current study
  • Voltage fluctuation
  • Grid code compliance/power factor correction

Industry leading experience
Our employees are skilled and highly experienced in the construction and maintenance of networks from LV to 400kV. We provide project management, resources for installation and commissioning and technical support.

Safety is our business
Powerteam manage all our projects in accordance with the most demanding health and safety procedures. Our project managers are highly trained to comply with best practice in providing a safe environment for our customers, the public and our employees. Project specific method statements and risk assessments are developed and agreed with our clients prior to work commencing. In August 2006 we attained OSHAS 18001 accreditation – one of the few high voltage electrical contractors to do so.

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