Grid Connected Battery Energy Storage Systems – Dynamic Containment Part 1: Introduction This post is a follow on to our previous post, which discussed battery energy storage in general, and its application to power arbitrage.In this post we … [Read more...]
ETAP – Official Partner
SPE Electrical are an ETAP Official Partner Again! SPE are pleased to announce that once again we are an official partner company of Operations Technology Inc., who produce the industry leading Electrical Transients Analysis Program or ETAP for … [Read more...]
Battery Energy Storage Systems – Power Arbitrage
Battery Energy Storage Systems - Power Arbitrage Part 1: Introduction Battery Energy Storage Schemes are very versatile plants and can be used for a number of different services, depending on the plant design and aims; this can include services … [Read more...]
GSYS – Sarsang Development – ETAP Power System Studies
One of of our other exciting projects that has kicked off this year is the to provide a full suite of ETAP power system studies to GSYS for the Sarsang development in Kazakhstan; this small but highly intricate Oil & Gas project is to develop a … [Read more...]
Cowes Power Station – Black Starting and Synthetic Inertia
Its a been a busy January and February with lots of new jobs starting; but one we would particularly like to showcase is our involvement on the new RWE Cowes Power Station black starting project. The existing Cowes power station, is being … [Read more...]
UK Energy White Paper 2020
The UK government has just published its 2020 Energy White Paper titled ‘Powering Our Net Zero Future’, outlining its plans for decarbonizing the UK by 2050. In this post I will try and pull out the key highlights, and my take on them. This is really … [Read more...]
Website Refresh
We have recently finished a project to upgrade our website, to help improve the overall user experience. A thank you and hat-tip to Sam Becketts for carrying out all the design and hard work. The website now has a new more dynamic menu, specific … [Read more...]
ISO 9001 Accreditation
We are please to announce that we have finally achieved ISO 9001 accreditation. This important milestone will benefit both SPE and out customers, as the developments in our quality management system will help to ensure that all deliverables meet the … [Read more...]
Understanding Simple Electrical Reliability and Availability and Lost Revenue for Power Systems
Electrical Reliability - An Introduction Electrical Reliability is something that tends to be talked about often in electrical design, but usually only in general terms like an N-1 outage or an N-2 outage. This approach is OK in terms of simple … [Read more...]
Harmonics ENA G5/5 Stage 3 – Are You Ready?
Harmonics - ENA G5/5 Stage 3 This is a follow up to my post from the 17th June 2020, dealing with the new ENA G5/5 harmonics standard. The first post covered some general explanation of the standard and the specifics of Stage 2 process; this post … [Read more...]