Technical Consulting
We deliver complete technical services. From the first studies of a new generation prospect, through permitting and technology applications, to comprehensive maintenance strategies and solving operations problems, we provide a wide range of consulting services.
We help utilities and independent power producers develop, operate, distribute, and manage complex power generating facilities efficiently and cost effectively. Our wide ranging support includes:
- System repairs
- Uprate support
- Supervisory Control and Data Access Systems (SCADA)
- Dispatch centers
- Regional control centers
- Transmission
- Substation projects
We provide an insider’s knowledge of the total power development cycle to any stage of a plant’s completion for power generators seek engineering solutions to produce the most competitive of kilowatts as well as prospective owners assessing the viability of idle or incomplete facilities.
Technical Services—Consulting, Engineering, and Project Services
- Utility management services
- Discrete engineering packages
- Technology specialists
- Environmental specialists
- Cost specialists
- Test, start-up, training specialists
- Operations consultants
- System planning
- Transmission and distribution (overhead, underground, underwater)
- Substations
- Maintenance programs
More than 25 Years of Support for Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Washington Division has been a principal source of studies and economic assessments for EPRI, preparing dozens of major documents that have become standards for power generation companies to plan capital projects and estimate their costs. Often, initial studies and assessments are updated on regular cycles to sustain their value as tools for the industry.
Some of the more recent significant tasks include:
- An FGD bid preparation and evaluation guideline document for the utility industry to establish criteria for an RFP evaluation of vendor submittals, and a set of baseline technical criteria for vendor operating guarantees
- Guidelines that serve as the basis for analysis of utility industry trends and cost estimating guidelines
- Performance, cost, and economic estimates for 500kW to 25MW combustion turbine and reciprocating engine plants for EPRI TAG distributed resources technologies
- Comprehensive spreadsheet model for 200-800MW sub-critical and supercritical pulverized coal power plants
- Comprehensive spreadsheet model for 40-600MW sub-critical circulating fluidized bed power plants
- Cost comparison and model development of a circulating fluidized bed boiler versus a pulverized coal boiler
