Utilities

ASSM’s Utility services include: conducting forensic root cause analyses of major power generation, transmission and distribution systems accidents; analysing equipment failures and performance problems; providing improved equipment reliability recommendations; assessing the condition of existing equipment for due diligence services, and to evaluate repair/replace options; addressing prudence issues related to rate base and regulatory hearings; and acting as a spokesperson for the utility in press conferences, public and government meetings, and in courts of law.

Our utility team includes experts in the areas of boiler systems; cables; electrical faults; explosion analysis; fire modelling; fire protection; generators; materials and mechanical systems; nuclear; substations; toxic substances; transformers; transmission and distribution systems; and turbines.

ASSM’s associated Forensic Visuals team can produce accurate utility installation performance reconstructions based on high-speed fault recorders and protective relay sequence digital recorders and environmental data. These reconstructions will serve as an invaluable training tool in a proactive safety management programme thereby assisting greatly in reducing losses and high-cost utility claims.

On the pro-active side, similar to our marine work, the long proven successful “crew resource management” concept that has evolved in aviation for over 20 years, has now been successfully adapted by our principal consultant, Captain Matti Sorsa, into a most practical and highly effective “Control Room Resource Management” programme for the modern nuclear or conventional power station operating environment. The most modern concepts and methods available today are currently being introduced to and practised within a number of State organisations with impressively convincing results.

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