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Hydropower Rehabilitation & Modernization

Many hydropower plants run with protection, control and auxiliary systems that are well past their design life. Renewtek helps owners and contractors plan and deliver electrical modernization around real outage windows and the interfaces with equipment that is staying in service.

Typical scope

  • Condition and retrofit review of existing electrical systems
  • Protection, control and SCADA modernization design
  • Auxiliary-system renewal
  • Replacement planning and staging
  • Design around outage and interface constraints
  • Commissioning of upgraded systems

When clients use this service

  • Assessing whether ageing electrical systems need replacement
  • Planning a phased upgrade within limited outage windows
  • Integrating new control systems with retained equipment
  • Commissioning modernized protection and control

Systems / areas covered

  • Protection relays
  • Unit and plant control
  • SCADA
  • Excitation and governor interfaces
  • Station auxiliaries
  • DC systems

Request engineering support

Tell us the plant, project stage and what you need covered under Hydropower Rehabilitation & Modernization. We reply with scope, approach and deliverables.

Project enquiry

Enquiries are answered by the Renewtek engineering team. Please include plant type, project stage and the engineering package required.

Discuss a Project

Send the plant type, project stage and the package you need covered. We reply with scope, approach and the engineering deliverables we can commit to.

Project enquiry

Enquiries are answered by the Renewtek engineering team. Please include plant type, project stage and the engineering package required.