Engineering Services
PowerNet MCL connects clients across Western Canada with the specialized engineering expertise of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Engineering Services (SEL ES). Through this partnership, utilities and industrial facilities collaborate directly with SEL’s expert engineers to create customized solutions that solve operational challenges and optimize performance.
PowerNet MCL supports project coordination and engagement, ensuring clients benefit from world-class engineering backed by responsive regional support.
SEL Engineering Services
SEL ES helps you overcome limited engineering resources while managing increasingly complex power system requirements.
Protection Services
SEL ES utilizes a deep understanding of the fundamental principles of electric power systems to create customized protection solutions for your system. Receive support for your project with protection scheme designs, relaying standards development, arc-flash studies, fault, and coordination studies.
Automation Services
SEL ES designs and commissions HMI, SCADA, and data integration solutions at any scale – from single substations to industrial facilities and wide-area grid operations. SEL Engineers collaborate with our clients to create a complete automation and control solution to fit your needs and help you increase grid stability and efficiency.
Power Management Systems
SEL Powermax Power Management protects and stabilizes industrial systems by preventing power blackout and power interruption for critical loads. Powermax is a scalable, integrated system composed of relay and control hardware, software, and logic processing, all designed by SEL’s expert Power Engineers.
Microgrid Control Systems
SEL’s Powermax MCS provides a reliable, resilient, and secure solution for maintaining uninterrupted energy delivery. Powermax MCS serves utilities, municipalities, college campuses, and facilities such as hospitals, data centers, and research labs – anywhere that constant delivery of electricity is critical even when grid availability is interrupted. SEL MCS maintains stability by providing deterministic control that operates at subcycle speeds to preserve load and generation balance while seamlessly islanding and recoupling with the grid.
Remedial Action Schemes
SEL Powermax systems for utilities provide the foundation for a Remedial Action Scheme (RAS) to integrate large geographic regions of interconnected generation sources, transmission lines, and loads.
Consulting Services
SEL ES offers expert consultation across all stages of protection, control, automation, and power system design. SEL Engineers combine deep technical expertise with hands-on field experience to deliver practical, reliable, and standards-compliant solutions.
System Modeling
SEL ES performs both real-time modeling through Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulations and offline modeling using a wide range of power system analysis tools. These include phasor-domain and Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) modeling, as well as control system modeling, to demonstrate scheme performance and evaluate its impact on the overall power system.
Substation Engineering Services
SEL ES can support and provide: Front-end engineering design (feed) studies, equipment specifications, preliminary cost estimates, and conceptual designs. Tailored mid-project review sessions focused on end-user needs and satisfaction. Issued-for-Construction (IFC) packages, complete with Bills of Materials (BoM) and detailed construction specifications.
Cybersecurity
SEL ES provides services and solutions that streamline the demanding, potentially time-consuming tasks of maintaining compliance with international cybersecurity standards, such as NERC CIP, and keeping your infrastructure secure. Additionally, SEL defines procedures and draft documentation that helps ensure systems and processes are audit ready.
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