Middleton Group can assist in assessing site development potential for data centres, solar and BESS, power system option planning, concept, tender, and detailed design, right through to project management, construction and commissioning support services and connection-to-grid optioneering. Our transmission and distribution clients enjoy greater value working with Middleton Group, as we understand the specific risks and issues that are important to them, their stakeholders and delivery partners.

How can we help?

Engineering and design services

  • Power system option planning
  • Concept and feasibility studies
  • Terminal and distribution station design
  • Transmission and distribution line design
  • Underground cable design
  • Protection, control and SCADA design
  • Civil and structural design
  • Constructability, operability and
    maintainability reviews
  • REFCL HV network augmentation

Project management and delivery

  • Project and construction management
  • Owners engineering services
  • Superintendent services
  • Tender preparation, evaluation and recommendation
  • Plant commissioning and handover

Asset management services

  • Asset life optimisation studies
  • Asset renewal strategies
  • Power network master planning
  • Condition assessments

Risk and failure model analysis

  • Safety in design
  • HAZOP/HAZID/Chair
  • Root cause and failure analysis facilitation and investigation
  • REFCL impact and risk assessments

Advisory services

  • Data centre project development
  • Network capacity analysis
  • Site potential review (data centre, solar, BESS)
  • Site connection optioneering
  • Connection process management: Enquiry, application (r0), contract negotiation, commissioning planning (r2)
  • HV site substation design
  • Cable reticulation and sizing
  • Feasibility study and constructability
  • Input to environmental studies (EMF/EMI)
  • Coordination with all stakeholders involved in site development

Why choose us?

  • Extensive technical experience in the power industry from design and construction through to project delivery
  • Optimisation during conceptual design phases to deliver significant cost savings
  • Existing relationships with key suppliers and utilities

Our experience

Engineering and design services

  • 220/66kV windfarm terminal and collector station design review, design input and construction support services
  • Project and commercial risk review associated with proposed station designs
  • Engineering services for conceptual design, detailed design and constructability constraints for terminal stations
  • HV cable route design and cable installation
  • Planning permit, regulatory and local authority compliance
  • Condition assessment for transformer firewalls at terminal stations
  • Project management of safety related fall restraint systems installed on transformers in Victorian terminal stations
  • Civil structural designs associated with terminal / substation designs
  • Project and commercial management of transmission customer connections
  • Salt Creek Concept study development
  • Haunted Gully Terminal Station Constructability Review
  • Dundonnell wind farm development

 

Contact us

Daniel Burn

General Manager - Energy

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