System Planning
As systems age and demand grows, utilities and transmission companies are finding that they need more support in system planning. Competition in electricity markets has reshaped system planning requirements. Sustainability is a significant issue in system planning as economic, societal and environmental issues merge. The trend in independent power producers developing new generation speaks to the need for greater stakeholder involvement in the system planning process and the need to link system planning with market development.
The ZE Power Engineering System Planning team investigates and develops comprehensive plans for all aspects of power system upgrades and expansions. The experience of ZE’s staff and associates gives them the flexibility to easily and efficiently undertake projects in two different areas; Transmission
and Distribution.
Within those areas, ZE provides the following studies:
Interconnection Studies
- Interconnection facilities studies
- Interconnection impact studies
Power Quality Studies
- Network reliability studies
- Power quality investigations
- Grounding studies
- Disturbance Investigations
Power System Analysis
- System analysis
- Power/load flow analysis
- Impact assessment
- Condition assessments
- EMTP studies for transient analysis
- Modeling and harmonic analysis
- Control system simulations
- Short circuit studies
Protection Studies
- Protection application studies
- Relay settings & coordination studies
ZE Power Engineering’s System Planning services provide our clients with expertise in strategic analysis, project development and asset analysis, due diligence, development of comprehensive plans for system expansion, as well as, load forecasting to support planned system expansion. These services further enhance the client’s ability to prioritize and allocate capital to those areas which will minimize the client’s risk exposure by identifying load growth, system replacement and upgrade strategies.
