The Opus Group
Substation engineering · up to 230 kV

From single-line to a construction-ready substation.

Step-up and collector substation engineering up to 230 kV: single-line diagrams, general arrangement by clearances, grounding to IEEE 80, bus and conductor sizing, structures, and foundations — drawn and detailed for construction.

DISCIPLINESubstations
VOLTAGEUp to 230 kV
TOOLSAutoCAD · PLS-POLE · ETAP
SCOPESingle-line → foundation

The yard, end to end

01 / SCOPE
SUB-01 · SLD

Single-line

Substation single-line diagrams — buses, banks, and terminations.

SUB-02 · ARRANGEMENT

General arrangement

Equipment layout by clearances — plan and elevation views.

SUB-03 · GROUNDING

Grounding (IEEE 80)

Ground grid design to IEEE 80 (ETAP) — soil resistivity to step-and-touch.

SUB-04 · BUS

Bus & conductor

Bus and conductor sizing — ampacity and short-circuit forces.

SUB-05 · STRUCTURES

Structures

Dead-end, A-frame, and H-frame structures designed in PLS-POLE.

SUB-06 · FOUNDATIONS

Foundations

Shallow foundations (Visual Foundation) and drilled shafts (FAD Tools), to the structure reactions.

Modeled and detailed in proven tools

02 / TOOLCHAIN
AutoCAD

Single-line, general arrangement, plans and elevations.

PLS-POLE

Structure analysis and design.

ETAP

Grounding (IEEE 80) and short-circuit analysis.

Visual Foundation

Shallow foundation design.

FAD Tools

Drilled shaft foundation design.

Substation physical design — arrangement, grounding, bus, structures, foundations. Protection, relaying, and system studies sit with the utility or their specialist; geotechnical data is a client input.

Three steps

03 / PROCESS
01SINGLE-LINE

The scheme

Single-line and equipment list to the interconnection requirements.

02ARRANGEMENT

The yard is laid out

General arrangement by clearances; grounding, bus, and structures designed to it.

03DELIVER

The set

Plans, elevations, grounding, structure and foundation design — detailed for construction.

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Developers, IPPs, and EPCs: collector and step-up substation engineering up to 230 kV — arrangement, grounding, structures, and foundations, detailed for construction.