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Power system protection engineering in the south

Bevan Cooper

Hi all

I'm a New Zealand registered International Professional Engineer and Chartered Professional Engineer, working as a Principal Engineer in power systems protection design at a consultancy here in New Zealand.

One of the options I'm considering for the medium term is moving to the UK for a few years on an ancestry visa, living in the south of England, and designing protection schemes for the local networks - preferably at transmission level.  The trouble is I'm not clear on who does protection designs in that part of the world - whether asset owners usually have their own protection engineers on staff, whether they normally have an affiliated company to provide these services, or whether they tend to use consultancies to handle protection designs.  

Can anyone offer some advice on how the local protection design services are structured, and/or suggest suitable companies to approach?

Many thanks

Bevan

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    Others here can probably refine the details - but generally transmission (typically 132 to 400 kV) is handled by the National Grid and distribution (230V to 66kV) handled by local Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) of which there are quite a few, loosely based on the old regional electricity boards. (Just to confuse matters, one DNO, until recently called Western Power Distribution now goes by the name National Grid as well). There are also independent companies that do some DNO type work (IDNOs). What their arrangements for design are I don't know, I'd guess they mostly do things in house, but that's only a guess).

       - Andy. 

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    Others here can probably refine the details - but generally transmission (typically 132 to 400 kV) is handled by the National Grid and distribution (230V to 66kV) handled by local Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) of which there are quite a few, loosely based on the old regional electricity boards. (Just to confuse matters, one DNO, until recently called Western Power Distribution now goes by the name National Grid as well). There are also independent companies that do some DNO type work (IDNOs). What their arrangements for design are I don't know, I'd guess they mostly do things in house, but that's only a guess).

       - Andy. 

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