All Valley Engineering Corporation (AVEC) provides a full range of engineering, economic, and planning services to utilities of all types. We provide services nationwide to distribution cooperatives, generation and transmission cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, public utility districts, and industry associations.
1. Power Delivery Planning
Electric distribution systems and operation planning has become increasingly complex at utilities. Pressures in the areas of customer service and reliability coupled with opportunities for automation, distributed generation, and other solutions are changing the shape of strategic plans. The Power Delivery Planning concept is a way to respond to these pressures and forge a clear and consistent direction. The objective of a Power Delivery Plan is to prepare an electric service delivery strategy that focuses on improving customer service and maximizing benefits for each dollar invested in the electric plant, automation, and other efficiency tools. In particular, the plan is to consider reliability and cost impacts due to the application of alternate protection schemes, distribution automation, load management, distributed generation, outage management systems, and other technologies along with typical pole, wire, and substation alternatives. A Power Delivery Plan will provide effective decision-making tools for Management, Engineering, and Operations. All Valley Engineering Corporation (AVEC) has worked with many clients in realizing the value and efficiencies of solid planning for their situation. AVEC develops plans in a way that supports and strengthens client's current initiatives. AVEC can lead or assist your organization with:
Distribution Studies
Reliability Improvement
Distributed Generation (DG) Strategies
Automation Planning
Transmission Studies
Condition Based Maintenance
2. Utility Automation
A key to a utility's success is getting information to the right person quickly and in a useable format. The marketplace today expects reliable electric service, prompt and accurate responses to customer inquiries or problems, and efficient business processes and reporting. AVEC has been able to save its clients substantial dollars and difficulties by helping them identify and implement the most suitable information and automation technologies for their situation. AVEC can help your organization with:
Technology Work Plan
Security and Disaster Recovery
Information Management
SCADA
Substation Automation and Integration
Distribution Automation (DA)
Distribution Management Systems (DMS)
Energy Management Systems (EMS)
Outage Management Systems (OMS)
3. Resource Planning
Resource planning straddles both wholesale and retail markets. The recent pace of change in these markets makes resource planning one of the most dynamic areas of utility practice. The declining influence of regulatory interventions creates both new opportunities and new risks. Utilities have broader choices than ever before to shape their own futures. All Valley Engineering Corporation (AVEC) resource planning group includes senior level expertise in economics, statistics, engineering and finance allowing us to assist our clients with a broad spectrum of needs. AVEC resource planners can assist your organization with:
Load Forecasting
Load Research
Survey Research
Market Price Forecasting
Power Supply Studies
Demand Response Studies
Asset and System Valuations
Risk Measurement and Management
4. Substation Design
All Valley Engineering Corporation (AVEC) can help you meet the challenges of growing loads and the increased requirements for metering, control and monitoring. We offer a wide range of substation and transmission facility design services, from 4 kV to 230 kV. Our staff has nationwide experience with substation and switchyard design for transmission and distribution voltages and for air and gas-insulated facilities. We can assist you through the entire design process, from initial system and facility review and planning, to detailed engineering, construction and commissioning.
AVEC substation design services include:
System and facility review and planning.
Site selection, planning and permitting.
Preliminary project layout and design.
Project schedules and budgets.
Physical and equipment layout design.
Air and gas-insulated bus and equipment design.
Grounding calculation resistance and soil resistivity testing.
Detailed specification for material, equipment and construction.
Control and relay design and setting.
SCADA and communications design, integration and testing.
Metering system design.
Capacitor VAR support and design.
IPP interconnection projects.
Distributed and peak shaving generation interconnection.
Substation project construction management.
Project startup and commissioning.
Project record documentation.
Substation design training
5. Line Design
Whether a single or multiple project, All Valley Engineering Corporation (AVEC) provides underground and overhead distribution design of primary and secondary systems, field engineering for feeder rebuilds, and maintenance and voltage conversions. AVEC has a 30 year history of preparing line design and field engineering for electric utilities that contract for construction. We also provide underground network and URD design services for network duct projects and feeder design up to 25 kV and transmission systems from 69 kV to 138 kV. These projects typically include the following tasks:
Preparation of budgetary cost estimates
Construction assembly drawing preparation
Construction specifications
Right-of-Way identification and procurement
Field design and staking
Construction contract preparation using internally developed software
Contract bidding and construction period services
Construction inspection
Contract management
Contract closeout
