Utility Sector Experience

Magna IV Engineering has served over 4,000 clients and performed work for the nine major utility companies in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In addition to these utilities, Magna has worked with more than 15 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and municipally owned utility organizations. This has amounted to more than 900 projects completed to date.

Electrical Utility and Power Producers

Utility Project Scope

In the utility environment, Magna IV Engineering covers high voltage transmission lines, substation engineering, power distribution engineering, and urban development electrical design. We provide the following services:

• Project management
• Project scoping, budgeting and scheduling
• Procurement and expediting
• Contractor management
• Construction support
• Contract management
• Document control
• Quality assurance and quality control (during design and construction phases)
• System studies; such as load flow, coordination and transient and reliability
• Protective relaying
• Metering design
• Highway and street lighting, lighting calculations, structure design, fixture selection
• Electrical testing and commissioning of all electrical, protection and control components
• Substation SCADA/Telecontrol
• Substation design
  • Circuit breakers, transformers, switches, reactors, current transformers, magnetic and capacitive voltage transformers, surge arrestors, support structures, steel foundations, concrete foundations, protection and control buildings
• Distribution design
  • Single phase, three phase, rural lines, urban lines, underground, overhead, ACSR, AAC, XLPE, EPDM, 8 kV, 15 kV, 25 kV, line terminations, reclosers, fuses, transformers, switches, voltage regulators, line capacitors, surge arrestors, insulators, cross arms, wooden structures, steel structures, survey data, soil conditions, grounding analysis, sag calculations, wind & ice loading calculations, ampacity and voltage drop & rise calculations, line loss calculations, short circuit and coordination studies
• Utility infrastructure upgrades and cable replacement
• Distributed generation or IPP grid interconnects, utility negotiating, preliminary and detailed engineering
• Interacting with system operators
• Specialized software available; MicroStation, AutoCAD, PLS Cadd, ETAP, SKM Power Tools, SES, FE Analysis, AGI32
• Electrical and civil drafting in traditional and 3D. IFQ, IFR, IFC packages and record drawings, turnover documentation and O&M manuals
• Equipment and construction specification development
• Working with GIS or AM/FM mapping and asset management software
• Working with customer’s project tracking software
• Developed work packages for utility crews to implement
• Remote access to customer’s data base and document control systems