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STUDY SERVICES

TriAxis engineers have many years of specialized experience in performing studies, developing plans, and providing special analyses for utility customers. They have completed work that includes:

  • Long Range Planning, including Load Forecasting
  • Capital Improvement Programs
  • Sectionalizing Studies
  • Protective Device Coordination Studies
  • Fault location estimates for distribution and transmission lines
  • Equipment condition and life-remaining assessments
  • Voltage Drop and Voltage Profile Studies
  • Capacitor Placement Assessments
  • Voltage Regulator Setting
  • Protective Relay Programming
  • Capacitor Bank Control Optimization
  • Multivariate Load Analysis
  • Thermal Modeling (using Finite Element Analysis) for Underground Cables
  • Analysis of Underground Cable Sheath Voltages and Currents
  • Computer Simulation of Capacitor Bank Transients
  • Service Entrance Fault Current Estimation

Some studies completed by TriAxis are:

Blachly-Lane County Cooperative Electric Association, Eugene, Oregon. Long range plans, 2-year construction work plans, large motor starting studies, sectionalizing studies

Consumers Power, Philomath, Oregon. Electric system long-range planning study including power flow, voltage drop, system loss, economic conductor sizing, and system configuration analyses. Also prepared 1990-91 CWP, 1989 PRS, and 1990 BER

Kootenai Electric Cooperative, Inc., Hayden Lake, Idaho. Short- and long-term distribution system planning study

City of Soda Springs, Idaho. Long-range transmission, substation, and distribution planning study; also a system relay-fuse coordination and sectionalizing study

Port Angeles Light Department, Washington. Short- and long-term distribution system planning study including load forecast, short-circuit and protective device coordination

Vera Water and Power, Veradale, Washington. Short- and long-term distribution system long range plan including load analysis, voltage drop, conductor loading, energy losses, short circuit analyses and protective device coordination

Canby Utility Board, Oregon. Electric system long range plan

City of Rupert, Idaho. Short- and long-term distribution system planning study consisting of load forecast, load flow, and short-circuit analysis and protective device coordination

City of Drain, Oregon. Electrical system long range planning study; 2-year construction work plan and review of PRS

ORCAS Power and Light, Eastsound, Washington. Electrical system long range planning study; 2-year construction work plan and review of PRS

City of Blaine, Washington. Electrical system evaluation, analysis, and recommended system improvement plan

City of Milton-Freewater, Oregon. Short-circuit and protective device coordination study

International Paper, Gardiner Mill, Oregon. Long range plan including an evaluation of the entire transmission, distribution, and substation facilities; power supply planning study, a cost-of-service and rate study, a load forecast study, and system analysis (power flow and short-circuit)

Ketchikan Public Utilities, Ketchikan, Alaska. Current transmission and distribution planning studies; distribution and generation relay studies

Alaska Electric Light and Power, Juneau, Alaska. Powerhouse system review and cost estimates, powerhouse fire detection design including turnkey performance specification and field services during construction