Powerline Engineering

MVA is a highly experienced engineering firm. Our history in the power sector, providing engineering services for over 7,000 km of overhead and underground lines over the last two decades, has been relied heavily upon by our clients. This extensive experience has lent to our proficiency using diverse materials and hardware to achieve project objectives and allow us to provide innovative solutions to the logistical challenges arising from working in different terrains, highly populated areas, environmentally sensitive areas, and hard to access areas. MVA is often sought out by Clients as their preferred engineering firm when they need effective solutions for unique project challenges, because they trust our experience and aptitude for problem-solving to get the job done. Our Engineering expertise includes but is not limited to:

  • 8kv to 34kV overhead line design

  • 69kV to 500kV transmission line design

  • Telecommunication attachments

  • Distribution voltage conversions

  • Operations/maintenance

  • Safety

  • Metering

  • Reconductoring

  • Rehabilitation

  • Powerline equipment (OCRS, switches, regulators, shunt and series capacitors, inductors, fuses and arrestors)

Distribution planning

MVA believes that the distribution grid is central to having a reliable electric system. As such, we consider planning processes critical for providing essential electric services to stakeholders.

Our experience in distribution planning includes but is not limited to:

  • Electrical modelling

    1. Load forecasting

    2. GIS export of models

    3. Multiple 5 - 20 year long-range electrical master plans produced for both municipal and major electrical utilities

    4. High level project development for capital budgets

    5. Asset management planning, distribution and substation

underground DESIGN SERVICES

Whether supporting municipalities in their underground design needs, or working with clients to optimize their sites functionality with underground services, for 22 years MVA has been supporting the underground design of power systems across Alberta. Our underground experience ranges from small lighting projects to large underground transmission projects. Working with stakeholders to deliver engineering as well as coordinating with other shallows to produce construction packages. MVA works to surpass typical service offerings to deliver uncommon value to all stakeholders so that together we build relationships, infrastructure, and a future we are proud of.

Our underground design expertise includes, but is not limited to:

  • UD design: feeder and sub-feeder

    1. Operations

    2. Ducted and direct buried systems

    3. Municipal street revitalization programs

    4. Rebuild of existing plans

    5. Telecommunications

    6. Secondary networks

    7. Subsurface and pad mounted switches/transformers

    8. VFI switches

    9. Cable failure analysis

    10. Cable injection programs

    11. Substation egress

    12. URD (underground residential distribution)