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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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    Thanks all

    This sounds a lot like the structure here in NZ.  The companies operating at distribution level (we call them Electricity Supply Companies, ESCs) don't often employ dedicated protection engineers, the larger ESCs may have a few, but most ESCs use generalist power system engineers who have some protection knowledge as a part of their skill set.  The more complex projects requiring specialist protection knowledge get outsourced to consultancies.  Several ESCs have an affiliated contracting arm  which bids for construction and maintenance work on their network and on other networks, this sounds similar to your ICPs.

    Our national grid (mainly 220 and 110 with small amounts of other voltages) has a larger group of protection engineers, but also outsources a lot of its protection design due to the sheer volume of work involved.

    I'd be obliged if anyone here can name some of the consultancies that provide protection services (like the ones Jam described) and are based in the south of England.

    - Bevan

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    Thanks all

    This sounds a lot like the structure here in NZ.  The companies operating at distribution level (we call them Electricity Supply Companies, ESCs) don't often employ dedicated protection engineers, the larger ESCs may have a few, but most ESCs use generalist power system engineers who have some protection knowledge as a part of their skill set.  The more complex projects requiring specialist protection knowledge get outsourced to consultancies.  Several ESCs have an affiliated contracting arm  which bids for construction and maintenance work on their network and on other networks, this sounds similar to your ICPs.

    Our national grid (mainly 220 and 110 with small amounts of other voltages) has a larger group of protection engineers, but also outsources a lot of its protection design due to the sheer volume of work involved.

    I'd be obliged if anyone here can name some of the consultancies that provide protection services (like the ones Jam described) and are based in the south of England.

    - Bevan

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