Distribution System Analysis and Planning

OUR SOLUTIONS

EN Consulting offers a suite of comprehensive distribution system analysis
and planning services that analyze, identify, explain, and solve complex
technical issues. Our team of industry experts offers decades of direct
utility analysis and consulting experience spanning a wide range of services
from downtown secondary networks to grid modernization and the emergence of
alternative energy resources such as DER, EV, BESS, and microgrids. Whether
it is traditional capacity planning in dense load centers, electrification,
or alternative approaches using dispersed resources, EN Consulting partners
with our clients from solution conception to project completion.

DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS

Our range of capabilities includes:

• Utility distribution capacity and reliability planning assessments and
  power system model development using CYME, PSS/E, Synergi, ETAP, SKM,
  Aspen, EMTP / PSCAD™ or other required modeling/analysis software
• Distributed Energy Resource (DER) interconnection process support and
  system impact studies:
  • Renewables including solar (PV), wind turbines, Battery Energy Storage
    (BESS), fuel cells, and hybrids
  • Combined Heat and Power (CHP), simple cycle gas turbines, and other
    thermal generation
  • Application screening support, system impact studies and system
    upgrade identification and support
• Distribution capacity and energy forecasting, GIS analytics, and
  assessments of alternative energy:
  • DER hosting capability maps
  • Electric Vehicles (EV)
  • » Electrification (heat pumps, electrical appliances, or other new
    building load sources)
• Utility-scale microgrid analysis and design for
  net-zero/carbon-neutral/carbon-free initiatives, off-grid operation, and
  backup resiliency
• Secondary network grid analysis, planning, and reinforcements for urban
  metropolitan city load centers
• Grid modernization analysis and settings for smart grid, distribution
  automation/FLISR/selfhealing schemes:
  • Scheme logic design and operational location optimization
  • Protective device coordination and settings for automatic switching
    devices (reclosers, switches, and fuses)
  • Volt-Var Optimization (VVO) studies defining control parameters

• Protection coordination studies and relay settings of distribution
  substation bus circuit breaker relays and step-down transformation
• System disturbance, event, or power quality root cause analysis

DISTRIBUTION PLANNING

Our capabilities include:

• 5/10 year capital plans, programs or electric master plans to evaluate
  improvement program alternatives with project ranking to establish final
  capital forecast and schedule
• Assess reliability and operational analytics to improve reliability
  metrics and address ‘worst performing’ areas of the system
• Evaluate system-wide asset programs focused on aging assets and/or
  systemic equipment issues
• Voltage conversions, replacements, rebuilds, substation
  retirements/conversions, and safety programs targeting high-risk
  operational equipment
• Assess the viability of modern approaches as an alternative to asset
  replacements or conversions