OVERVIEW OF SERVICES OFFERED
Linothé strives to deliver optimised; technical and financial justifiable solutions. The engineers of Linothé have, at individual capacity, pioneered and delivered a variety of projects in the areas listed below. We have resources and expertise to offer engineering services in the following areas:
- Substations and Equipment
- FACTS devices
- Reactive Compensation
- Power Quality Studies, Measurement and Monitoring
- Power System Planning Studies & Electrification
- Primary & Secondary Plant Commissioning Protection scheme testing & commissioning
HVDC projects are fairly complex and due to initial investment that is required for a project to get off ground, due diligent studies need to be performed for economic justification of a project. Amongst other aspects we take into account the field experience of relevant technologies, most suitable topologies / configurations for a system that meets the operating requirements whilst achieving high availability, reliability and maintainability. Linothé together with its Associates have experience of undertaking such project.
System studies
- Feasibility and Integration studies (incl. IPPs)
- Transmission & Distribution planning
- Project development-lifecycle cost analysis
- Insulation coordination studies
- Reactive Compensation Sizing studies
Power Quality Studies
- Harmonic studies for integration of shunt banks, new customers and IPPs
- Voltage Unbalance studies
- Investigations to Power Quality issues
- Power quality solutions
- Site measurements and monitoring
EHV/HV/MV Substations and Equipment
- Sizing and rating of shunt bank filters, power factor correction devices
- Technical Specifications
- Technical auditing of substations, & power lines
- Substation equipment commissioning – Electrical protection and metering equipment.
Project Consulting
- Project development
- Advisory services throughout project lifecycle– from evaluation and adjudication of tenders to commissioning of a plant
- Development and / or evaluation of Test Plans and Commissioning Procedures
- Quality inspections
- Supervision of on-site testing and commissioning
- Analysis of on-site tests results and project close-out