• Conduct relay and equipment (CB, MOD, CT and PT etc.) replacement in existing substations / plants. Handle well with unanticipated situations encountered over executing such brown field projects

• Provide conceptual engineering service on options, option comparison with cost justification; Single line diagram; Identify project risks and challenges

• Develop substation drawings, calculations, layouts and elevation drawings, single line diagrams and three phase diagrams, site plan

• Power system studies: load flow, short circuit, motor start and arc flash

• Conduct design study on AC/DC load, cable selection and voltage dropping, CT sizing, burden and saturation, grounding grid;

• Prepare the detailed design package including AC control single line, DC logic diagrams, DC & AC Station Service distribution, AC & DC Schematic, wiring diagrams and cable tables, panel layout & cutout diagrams, control building layout, bill of material (BoM) etc.

• Draft / review / finalize equipment specification and datasheet for power transformers, generators, motors, MCC, VFD, switchgear (AIS or GIS), UPS and DC power

• Provide Construction Plan from designers’ perspective for guiding the construction and installation; Create Commissioning and Testing Plan; Support field construction and commissioning

• Convert network based SCADA to cloud based by replacing in‐house networking resource with major cloud web service providers (such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft “Clouds”)

• Add mobile device application to the existing SCADA for historian and realtime data polling / presentation, analytics, alarm processing, based on cloud computation

• Install new SCADA using cloud based technology and products to reduce the initial capital cost and ongoing maintenance cost

• Integrate multiple SCADA system from different vendors or different vintages into one consistent format

• Support on troubleshooting of substation equipment failure and protection mis‐operation; provide engineering service for short‐term mitigation and replacement

• Substation major equipment general specification and detailed specification study, model selection, standardization, and procurement support

• Root cause analysis on substation equipment and protection failure; trending data analysis and long term solution proposal

• Equipotential bonding & grounding (EB&G) standard creation and maintaining • Arc flash hazard analysis and study on MV and LV metalclad switchgear or other equipment of concern

• Create operation and design standards / templates / procedures related with substation engineering

• Design detailed relay settings for protecting power transmission lines, distribution feeders, power transformers, phase shifting transformers, shunt reactors, capacitor banks, busses, breakers (failure and control), reclosers

• Provide overall P&C protection scheme consultation with expert’s insight in formal reports; estimate of P&C implementation cost; scheme selection based on analysis of protection reliability (dependability and security), redundancy, speed and selectivity; coordination study, check and documentation

• P&C standard development at philosophy level, and at relay / device level (e.g. selecting, screening and applying a new relay, converting the new application into a template or standard)

• Compliance preparation and strategy consulting on reliability & coordination standards

• Short circuit modeling of new power system elements; fault level calculation; fault clearing time analysis and “budgeting”; detailed DC Logic Diagram illustrating the logics between inputs and outputs of relays

• Formal reports (in format of MathCad) documenting engineering calculation, considerations, formula, algorithms, assumptions, justifications

• Preparation and issuance of vendor proprietary settings files directly downloadable to relays; real‐time support to field construction, commissioning & testing; evaluate testing results to ensure validity of settings

• As_Built engineering: Engineering justification for field modifications; prepare and submit As_Recorded (aka As_Built) setting files and reports for permanent project documentation purpose; As_Built “hardware” design modifications as well (if required)

• Economics and market analysis through the lifecycle of a generation project, from the pre‐viability stage to the operation stage

• DG or IPP interconnection (including study to meet the grid codes, negotiation for economics, and implement the interconnection) with DFO, TFO and the ISO in the jurisdiction

• Make technical negotiation and reach coordination agreement with the interconnecting utilities and governing regulators

• Estimate overall cost of interconnecting renewable energy distributed energy resources (DER) to the power system

• Conduct detailed engineering design for the collector bus and substation interfacing with the utility

• Implement transfer trip scheme and anti‐islanding with modern solution

• Provide innovative technical solutions to save cost on the project

• Model and study pipeline induction due to adjacent power lines; design mitigation plan to protect pipelines

• Design, review, study for mitigation grounding grids in substations / plants. Create, execute or supervise execution of grounding plan to mitigate unsafe operational situation related with high grounding resistance and subsequent high GPR and TPR

• Conduct field work to do on‐site measurement, data retrieval for modelling; execute or supervise execution of the mitigation plan; verify the effectiveness of mitigation plan

• For project designs, provide drafting support to variety of stages

• For Asset Management, draft, check and approve all field returned AsRecorded drawings

• Project engineering and project management services from the inception of a project to the successful energization. PSTI has been involved with some of the most complicated, or largest projects in Alberta

• Project scheduling, outage request, construction management

• Go through filing and subsequent follow up with AUC, AESO, TFOs and DFOs on connection to the AIES (Alberta Integrated Electric System)

• Provide power system interconnection study based on the client’s load or generation need and requirements, as well as the governing system operator’s reliability standards in the jurisdiction

• Identify and resolve power system constraints by considering innovative and environmentally friendly solutions

• Study, propose and design RAS (remedial action scheme) to mitigate power system constrains in lieu of expensive system upgrade

• Historical and real‐time (ongoing) generation facility (per generation unit or per aggregated generation site) with up to minute by minute resolution

• Economic analysis report for viability studies and decision‐making on investments into the Albertan power generation market.

• visit our interactive Alberta Generation Tracing (AGT) dashboard to observe generation and price data over the past 8 days here.

• MV & LV distribution and HV transmission line standards –structure design (per codes, standards and the client’s past convention), bill of material, standard maintenance and update

• Foundation and structure design for line towers or poles using PLS‐CADD, PLS‐POLE, TOWER, Staad Pro, S‐Frame/S‐Steel, L‐Pile, AutoCAD or MicroStation.

• Substation civil engineering and land development plan and design. Civil design and review on telecom towers and pre‐fabricated control buildings.