Substation Design

ICPE designs high-voltage substations and switchyards for the transmission and distribution of electrical power, including layout, equipment selection and specification, protection, and control schemes.

With over 40 years of experience and hundreds of successful designs across the U.S., the ICPE team collaborates closely with clients to fully understand the specific needs of each project, serving a broad range of electric utilities including municipal, cooperative, investor-owned, and independent power producers. The work spans from small facility upgrades to complex 345 kV switchyards and generation interconnect stations.

ICPE's expertise covers substation bus and foundation design, grounding, short circuit analysis, lighting, lightning protection, and structural loading. ICPE engineers are proficient in nearly every bus arrangement scheme, including radial, modified, paired element, main & transfer, breaker-and-a-half, and double bus configurations, and bring specialized expertise in phase-shifting transformers, EHV series capacitor banks, multi-stage shunt capacitors, energy storage systems, and system protection philosophy.