Capabilities

Our value engineering and design thinking begins by hunting down every potential issue that could disrupt your project or cause headaches after delivery. We quantify design with you, presenting zero faults, layout issues, compliance mistakes or unexpected costs.

Specialised engineering services

• IEC61850 Consultancy
• Writing and reviewing of client specifications and feasibility studies
• Fault investigations
• Load Capabilities / Current testing and Investigations
• Power System studies and audits
• Earthing studies and reports (CDEGS)
• Detailed setting reports, load flows and fault studies (DIgSILENT)
• HV switching and routine maintenance
• Conceptual and pre-tender designs
• Protection audits
• Technical training
• Arc flash studies

You will enjoy an experience that keeps you informed and confident about the outcomes - meeting your schedule, budget and performance demands. Your project is handled by one point of contact for supply, manufacturing and installation.

We integrate all teams involved in the project, keeping communications open and honest to ensure full benefits of your project are achieved.

Examples of project management scope

• Quality management and performance plans
• WHS&E procedures covering all onsite personnel and sub-contractors
• Project delivery plan
• Environmental plan
• Design management plan
• Procurement management plan
• Construction management
• Supply chain management
• Oversized vehicle permits
• Site entry plans and safe lifting plans
• Commissioning and site acceptance testing

Using advanced analysis and studies to optimise system performance, PSD Energy provides the insights needed to ensure stable, efficient, and reliable electrical infrastructure for your operations.

Analysis and studies

• Harmonic analysis
• Load flow studies
• Power quality analysis
• Voltage stability analysis
• Static and dynamic stability study
• Short circuit studies
• Reliability studies
• Transient studies
• System impact assessment
• Protection coordination studies

Applications

• Reactive power compensation and harmonic filtering
• Voltage regulation
• Dynamic reactive power compensation and voltage regulation

Our construction team is always available and responsive to keep you informed. Fully integrated with our in-house manufacturing, we provide complete control and rapid answers when and where you need them.

We manage personnel, equipment, fabrication, and logistics internally, enabling swift responses to changes and unforeseen issues without relying on third parties.

Project responsibilities examples

• Complete substation detailed design (primary, civil structural, secondary, protection, SCADA)
• Full electrical construction: AC/DC works, earthing, and lightning protection
• Plant and equipment installation, including interplant cabling
• Gantry erection and overhead bus installation
• Comprehensive substation testing and commissioning
• Installation and commissioning of major equipment, transformers, reactors
• Installation of HV switchboards and cables

Civil responsibilities examples

• Bulk earthworks and footing installations
• Structure and earth grid installation
• Control building footings and substation structure erection
• Site fencing and equipment earthing
• Transformer enclosure construction

PSD Energy owns and maintains an extensive range of plant and equipment, enabling rapid mobilisation and efficient completion of construction projects nationally.

Overview of plant and equipment capabilities

• Excavators (8, 14, 15 and 20 tonne)
• Loaders
• Skid steers
• Articulated dump trucks (30 tonne)
• Trenchers
• Padfoot roller
• Vac trailer
• Telehandlers
• Forklifts
• EWP
• Water trucks
• Crane truck
• Light trucks
• Prime mover
• Tractors
• Cable jinkers
• Cable drum trailers
• Buses and utes

We offer both Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), seamlessly integrated with our in-house capabilities for design, manufacturing, onsite civil works, and substation construction. This ensures you have complete confidence that energisation will occur with the quality and reliability you demand.

• Protection relay and scheme testing upgrades
• Power station generation control testing and upgrades
• Medium and low voltage switchboard testing
• High voltage motor and generator testing
• High voltage substation testing
• Transformer testing
• AC and DC pressure testing of power cables
• Current Transformer & Voltage Transformer testing and upgrades
• High and medium voltage cable testing
• Substation batteries and charger testing
• Surge arrester testing
• Busbar inspection and testing
• Power factor correction system testing
• Power generation online and o&ine testing
• Medium and low voltage circuit breaker testing
• Earth testing and surveys
• IEC61850 integration testing

The range of market leading protection and control relays cover a wide area of primary equipment and applications. PSD Energy has you covered for generators, transformers, transmission lines, busbars, circuit breakers, feeders, reactors, capacitor banks and motors. Our expertise with leading OEM products includes these markets: generation, transmission and distribution, industrial, mining, water treatment and pumping, hybrid/off-grid power systems.

Protection and control

• Transmission line protection
• Busbar protection
• Circuit breaker protection
• Transformer protection
• Generator protection
• Feeder protection
• Capacitor protection
• Motor protection
• Arc flash protection
• Transfer devices and synchronisers

When footprint, environment or budget needs cannot be met by off-the-shelf products, we have the in-house capabilities to design and manufacture solutions for a host of different applications.

Technical overview of 400V power distribution switchboards

• Type tested solutions up to 7000A at 120kA
• Rated insulation voltage of 1000V AC as standard
• Fully modular design
• Enclosure and type tested busbar system
• Form 1 up to Form 4B segregation
• Construction: fixed, plug-in and withdrawable
• IP43 up to IP54 rated (indoor)
• IP56 rated (outdoor)
• Arc fault containment of ingoing and outgoing units tested to AS/NZS 61439.1:2016

Total control for your schedule comes from our in-house skills, equipment and facilities. With little reliance on subcontractors, the flow from our value engineering, design to construction becomes harmonious, delivering exact and precise builds that meet your specific onsite needs.

• Fire rating
• BAL compliant
• Galvanised or painted chassis
• Security systems
• Suppression systems
• Variety of colour schemes
• Provision for data, communications and fire extinguishing equipment
• Cable trays and gland plates
• Support beams, rails, landings and stairs
• Air conditioning and ventilation (HVAC)
• Pressure vents
• Region A, B, C or D compliant