CLIENT: Woodside LOCATION: Karratha, Pilbara, WA. SCOPE: APD was engaged in the definition phase of the Pluto Solar Import control integration into the Pluto Power Management System. Pluto operated islanded with its 160MW of embedded generation, hence a connection to the NWIS (North-West Interconnected System) is required to import solar power. The control aspects of…
CLIENT: Alinta Energy & Western Power LOCATION: Wagerup & Pinjarra, WA. SCOPE: Western Power Technical Rules requires Large Generation Plants to undertake Compliance Testing & Model Validation works when upgrade/modification works are proposed for the power plant installations or their associated controllers (AVR, Governor, PSS etc.). Alinta Energy required to complete the site testing &…
APD Engineering was engaged by Energy Australia (EA) to carry out a grid connection study to assess the local network & determine what upgrades were required to allow connection of a further 300-450MW extra generation to the Endeavour Energy’s (EE) 132kV Tallawarra Switching Station.
APD Engineering conducted an Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Study of Pernatty substation in South Australia for human health considerations.
