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Comprehensive Electrical Engineering & Consulting
With over fifty years of combined experience, our licensed Professional Engineers (PE) deliver code-compliant, stamped designs and technical consulting. We partner with commercial, industrial, and residential clients to solve complex power distribution challenges safely and efficiently.
Substation Design
Project & Scope Development: Full project planning, engineering cost estimations, line-item scope development, and material procurement support.
Physical Layout Design: Structural engineering layout designs for Air-Insulated Switchgear (AIS), Gas-Insulated Switchgear (GIS), and compact substations.
Electrical P&C Design: Comprehensive protection and control (P&C) panel layouts, logic schematics, and structural wiring diagrams.
Grounding & Lightning Protection: Advanced safety grounding grid calculations, lightning shielding layouts, and physical protection systems.
Conduit & Equipment Infrastructure: Detailed conduit design, physical raceway layouts, and engineering equipment specifications.
Modeling & Simulation Studies: Specialized electrical system modeling, performance studies, and strict safety standard compliance verifications.
Construction & Site Support: On-site construction support, equipment staging logistics, contractor RFI management, and final field reviews.
Reliability & Grid Modernization: Smart sensor integration, microgrid hookups, and automated restoration loops.
Protection & Coordination: Protective relays, fuse coordination, and automated circuit recloser profiles. Detecting, isolating and minimizing the impact of the fault.
SCADA & NERC CIP Protection: Design and engineering of critical control systems, remote monitoring networks, and compliant security frameworks to meet strict grid cybersecurity and reliability regulations
All substation physical layouts, protection configurations, and structural designs are engineered, reviewed, and stamped by a licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
Distribution Design
Project Scoping & Planning: Initial feasibility analysis, risk assessments, and multi-scenario utility planning.
Distribution System Design: Complete medium-voltage architecture and overhead-to-underground power line conversions.
Overhead & Underground Line Design: Clearances, structural pole configurations, concrete duct bank layouts, and vault placement.
Equipment Selection & Sizing: Specifications for line transformers, reclosers, voltage regulators, and capacitor banks.
Voltage Regulation & Power Quality: Line-loss calculations, phase balancing layouts, and voltage drop mitigation.
Load Analysis & System Modeling: Computational load flow profiling, circuit modeling, and peak demand tracking.
Grounding & Safety Design: Line grounding configurations, pole-ground layouts, and step/touch safety verifications.
Permitting & Compliance: Right-of-way permit mapping and structural plan packages for utility approval.
Customer & Service Design: Turnkey service drop layouts, meter configurations, and new customer load packages.
Construction Package Development: Complete issue-for-construction blueprints, bill of materials (BOM), and field packages.
Cost Estimation & Engineering Support: Itemized capital budget estimates, material procurement, and technical support.
Field & Construction Support: On-site structure spotting, contractor RFI management, and final validation punch-lists.
All distribution layouts, line profiles, and grid interconnection plans are engineered, reviewed, and stamped by a licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
Commercial & Residential
Power Distribution: Layouts, sizing, and design for main switchgear, distribution panels, tenant meter packs, and branch circuits.
Conduit & Cable Systems: Precise conduit run designs, physical routing paths, and code-compliant wire sizing calculations.
Building Wiring & Infrastructure: Comprehensive indoor/outdoor wiring plans, panel schedules, and structural pathway routing.
Power System Studies: Formal engineering load calculations, short circuit fault analysis, and arc flash hazard assessments.
Consulting & Compliance: Independent peer reviews, utility coordination packages, and NEC code compliance verifications.
All plans, calculations, and safety studies are engineered, reviewed, and stamped by a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) to ensure full regulatory approval and site safety.
Industrial Design
Plant Power Distribution: Design and layouts for heavy-duty main switchgear, substations, and facility-wide power distribution loops.
Motor Control Centers (MCCs): Sizing, configurations, and wiring layouts for heavy industrial motor control systems and starters.
Equipment & Process Integration: Specialized machinery wiring, backup generation systems, and automated process power feeds.
Hazardous & Harsh Environments: Heavy-duty, ruggedized infrastructure design and dust/waterproof enclosure specifications.
System Protection & Coordination: Advanced protective relay settings and fault isolation configurations to prevent plant downtime.
All industrial power systems, wiring configurations, and protection settings are engineered, reviewed, and stamped by a licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
EV Charging Station Design
Fleet & Commercial Electrification: System planning and infrastructure design for workplace, commercial, and municipal EV charging networks.
Station Power Layouts: Concrete structural foundations, safety barriers, physical site layouts, and underground power feed routing.
Electrical Infrastructure Upgrades: Utility transformer sizing, dedicated switchgear additions, and distribution hardware configurations.
Charger Deployment & Integration: Full electrical engineering for Level 2 and high-capacity DC Fast Charging hardware installations.
Grid Load Management: Active capacity calculations and power management strategies to optimize local utility infrastructure limits.
All EV infrastructure layouts, structural foundations, and grid interconnection plans are engineered, reviewed, and stamped by a licensed Professional Engineer (PE)
Renewables
Solar PV Systems: Residential, Commercial, and industrial, and utility-scale solar array layouts, inverter string configurations, and DC/AC collection system design.
Battery Energy Storage (BESS): Sizing, integration, and thermal management safety design for containerized and building-scale battery storage facilities.
Microgrid Integration: Advanced control topologies to smoothly blend solar, storage, generator, and utility power into a single resilient system.
Grid Interconnection: Technical calculations, utility transformer sizing, and complete engineering packages for medium-voltage grid hookups.
Feasibility & Capacity Analysis: Solar resource assessment modeling, energy yield estimates, and localized power grid impact studies.
All renewable generation profiles, storage configurations, and utility interconnection plans are engineered, reviewed, and stamped by a licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
Studies
Core Studies: Expert Execution of Load Calculation, Arc Flash Analysis, Short Circuit Analysis, and Load FLow Studies.
Power Quality Modeling: Data-Driven utility power quality reports utilizing advanced modeling tools to establish baseline profiles and identify grid anomalies.
System Protection & Coordination: System wide coordination of protective relays and safety switches to isolate electrical faults, mitigate active hazards, and minimize network disruptions.
Grounding & Safety Infrastructure: Engineering comprehensive grounding system designs and physical lighting shielding protection layout plans.
Regulatory Compliance: Technical engineering assessments delivering clear corrective action plans to achieve strict NFPA, NEC, IEEE safety compliance.
All engineering modeling, simulation calculations, and compliance reports are performed, and reviewed, and stamped by a licensed Professional Engineer (PE)Contact:
contact@K2Ninc.com
Phone: (818) 208-0243