System Planning & Operational Studies

We provide engineering services to assist system planners and operators in the following areas:

• Studies aimed at defining operating guidelines;
• Black start procedures — studies to support new black start procedures;
• Area interconnection studies, including load flow, stability, and voltage control;
• Tie line transfer limits;
• Out-of-step relay designs;
• TOV and switching studies, network resonance studies;
• Weak grid interconnection studies;
• Wind interconnection studies (onshore and offshore);
• Interconnecting solar farms.