PowerServices´ team members have been providing municipal,
cooperative, and investor-owned utilities with a wide range of engineering,
planning, and design services for over 40 years. We also provide extremely
specialized consulting services for complex utility acquisition, regulatory,
and rate design projects – all with a passion for helping utilities
maximize the efficiency of their businesses. In addition, our team assists
regulatory and legal entities with regulatory compliance expert witness
testimony and forensic engineering, including accident and fire investigation,
and expert witness testimony consulting services. Our clients also include
industrial facilities, alternative energy providers (hydroelectric and
wind generation), and universities and government entities.
Engineering and Management Services for:
- Distributed generation design and project management services
- Transmission design and project management services
- Substation design and project management services
- Distribution design and project management services
- Overhead to underground system conversion
- Hydroelectric and wind generation
- Utility and area lighting
- Overhead, underground, and joint utility T&D up to 230 kV
Planning and Energy Management Solutions:
- System planning (Long-Range Plans and Construction Work Plans)
- Environmental evaluations (Borrower's Environmental Reports)
- Power loss management and energy audits
- Technical studies
- Reliability enhancement
- Power quality improvement
- Power and energy audits
- Power factor optimization
- Protective coordination studies
- Regionalization analyses
- 2009 arc flash assessments and compliance, safety enhancements
- System Modeling (Windmil, CYME, EasyPower, SKM PowerTools, other
specialty applications)
Additional Management Services:
- Power Supply Negotiations and Contracts
- Cost of Service / Rate Studies
- System Improvement
- Asset management
- Capacitor / regulator placement
- Interconnection Agreements
- Pole Attachment Agreements and Rates
Utility Communications Services:
Studies
- Compliance verification of high reliability point-to-point links
- Coverage predictions using RF propagation modeling
- Coverage mapping and analysis of existing RF systems
- Upgrade Feasibility Assessments of existing communications systems
- Technical Viability Assessments of alternative AMI systems
- Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) identification and mitigation
- Inter-Modulation (IM) studies with detailed report
- Site grounding systems; design, analysis, and upgrade
Design/Development and Project Management
- Line of Sight (LOS) systems
- Land Mobile Radio systems
- Optical Fiber systems
- Site development and maintenance - RF and Optical Fiber systems
- Permitting requirements management
- Comprehensive technical specifications for competitive bidding
Specialty Services:
- Utility privatization
- Acquisition of utility systems
- Management and regulatory services (rates, regulations, etc.)
- Accident investigation and expert testimony
- Forensic Engineering
- Energy cost reduction
- Power audits / energy management
