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Quanta Technology One Page Brochure
According to McGraw-Hill’s ECN, Quanta Services, headquartered in Houston, TX, is the largest North American consulting, engineering and construction firm specialized in serving the energy and telecommunications industries. We are a publicly-traded company and listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PWR. Our annualized 2007 revenue, after the major acquisition of InfraSource Services, was $3.1 Billion; our employees are well over 13,000; our construction companies have the largest union as well as the largest nonunion work forces in the industry; we own many thousands of vehicles to support our field services; and we operate in all 50 states and have numerous regional offices throughout the US and Canada.
Quanta Technology Statement of Qualifications
Who We are: The high-growth, independent consulting arm of Quanta Services. Now 70+ professional staff, with many industry-renowned experts Headquarters in Raleigh, NC and regional offices in MA and CA.
Brochures for Individual Offerings
Real-Time Simulation & Testing Laboratory Using RTDS Technology
RTDS is a real-time power system simulation platform for precise modeling and analysis of transient phenomena, utilizing simulation time close to the timeframe of actual events. It was primarily developed and utilized for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of protective relays, digital controllers and process control devices for performance evaluation and pre-commissioning testing under real-world conditions. RTDS testing is also commonly used for prototype development and/or finalizing a new application design involving several digital control, protection and measurement devices. Quanta Technology has industry renowned power system and protection experts for consulting services related to RTDS simulation. This combination allows testing to be done without any constraints.
Asset Condition Services
Today’s utility environment includes expectations of higher reliability, lower costs and increased earnings, increased investment in environmentally friendly technologies, rapid fuel price escalation, and the challenge of aging in both the workforce and the utility infrastructure.
Asset Management
Asset management is a business approach designed to align technical decisions with business objectives. Asset management initiatives within particular utilities can take on many forms, and Quanta Technology has expertise in each including organizational design, goal formulation, risk management, project selection, portfolio management, maintenance management, life-cycle costing, outsourcing, and others.
Asset Management Program
Quanta Technology's Asset Management Program optimizes your company's investments and savings in the areas of: System Capability & Characteristics, Aging Infrastructure and Extreme Weather Hardening.
Distribution Planning
The goal of long-range distribution planning is to ensure that money spent today has value over the long term and is robust across a variety of planning scenarios. Unfortunately, many utilities have not performed rigorous long-range planning for many years, and barely have enough resources to address short-term issues such as capacity overloads, new customer connections, and other “must do” projects.
Distribution Reliability
Distribution reliability is one of the most important issues for electric utilities due to its high impact on cost, its high impact on customer satisfaction, and its high regulatory scrutiny. Since the issues relating to distribution reliability span nearly every department and budget, many utilities find it difficult to address this subject in a holistic manner.
Energy Storage
The electric system needs to balance supply and demand on a moment to moment basis. Energy commodities such as coal, oil and natural gas can be readily stored in massive quantities. However, the storage of electricity has been relatively complex and expensive. Today, with the changing ways in which electricity is generated and used, increased penetration of renewable energy sources and smart grid are making storage more attractive than before.
Impact Studies & Mitigation Measures for Integration of Solar Photovoltaic Distributed Generation
Utilities in North America and around the world are experiencing rapid proliferation of Solar Photovoltaic Distributed Generation (PV-DG) which is prompted by several factors including compliance with Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). This can represent an important challenge for utilities since the intermittent nature of PV-DG leads to diverse impacts on distribution system operations and planning. These impacts are not only of steady state but also of dynamic/transient nature. Quanta Technology has broad expertise with the assessment and mitigation of these impacts to allow the integration of PV-DG on power distribution systems. Our methodology includes identifying feeder level and/or system-wide impacts, providing utilities with guidelines regarding expected impacts as a function of penetration level, determining potential mitigation measures, developing and reviewing interconnection guidelines and standards, and testing inverters in a laboratory setting.
Photovoltaic Distributed Generation
Utilities in North America are experiencing rapid proliferation of Solar Photovoltaic Distributed Generation (PV-DG) which is prompted by several factors including compliance with Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). This can represent an important challenge for utilities since the intermittent nature of PV-DG leads to diverse impacts on distribution system operations and planning.
PMU Simulation & Testing (Synchrophasor/WAMPAC)
Monitoring of electrical grids by system operators is a very critical task. System operators use the monitored data to ensure a safe, reliable and dependable operation. Wide area monitoring based on synchrophasor technology uses PMUs/PDCs and associated communication to transmit information at a very high rate. Quanta Technology’s PMU/PDC simulation is intended to test the capability of PDC, synchrophasor applications and synchrophasor/WAMPAC systems to properly handle the synchrophasor data as called for in NERC PRC-002-2 (draft) standard and by application/system requirement.
Regulatory Services Qualifications
This document contains a summary of the Quanta Technology, LLC (“Quanta Technology”) qualifications to assist electric utilities, energy companies and reliability organizations in issues related to Regulatory Services, including NERC Electric Reliability Organization (“ERO”) and Regional Reliability Organization (“RRO”) Compliance Services. This document includes information about Quanta Technology key personnel credentials and a summary of related projects previously performed by the Quanta Technology staff.
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Management: Comprehensive strategic consulting services, utilizing analysis of locally available energy resources that can be utilized in a stand-alone or hybrid nature to fulfill the required renewable energy portfolio standards. Quanta Technology evaluates the renewable energy resources, distributed generation and load, renewable energy technology, existing generation mix, energy storage options, and the transmission and distribution network capacity.
RTDS Testing Laboratory
RTDS is a real-time power system simulation platform for precise modeling and analysis of transient phenomena, utilizing simulation time close to the time frame of actual events. RTDS is primarily developed and utilized for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of protective relays, digital controllers and process control devices for performance evaluation and precommissioning testing under close to real world conditions.
Standards Engineering
As the aging workforce of today’s electric utility industry continues to erode the experience and capability of engineering organizations, more and more companies are searching for outside assistance for what have traditionally been internal company functions. Among these are engineering standards, equipment specifications and standards, and basic system planning and studies.
Storm Hardening
In the past, it was net deemed economical to design distribution systems to withstand major weather events such as hurricanes, linear wind storms, and ice storms. The expectation was that utilities would be prepared for timely customer restorations and repairs.
Transmission Generation Planning
Managers with transmission and generation planning and operations responsibilities are getting hit with the one-two punch of rapidly increasing workload with dwindling human resource availability. ERO compliance, the necessity of adding new infrastructure, increased operating complexity, loss of institutional knowledge through retirement… These factors and more are contributors to the situation.
Wind Reliability
Analysis of Wind Turbine Failure Risks. Quanta Technology engineers are experienced in many different software applications that are common to the electric power industry. These applications include PSS/E, PSLF, PowerWorld, PSCAD, Palisade and MATLAB, among others.