Cables

HES have a team of full time cable jointers, and a team of skilled and specialised HV technicians operating across all sectors of the market.

Services Offered:

  • XLPE cable jointing / testing and condition assessment
  • Paper Lead cable jointing / testing and condition assessment
  • EPR (Rubber ) cable jointing / testing and condition assessment
  • Inspections and repairs of HV terminations 3.3kV up to 132kV
  • Re-termination of damaged / failed cables
  • VLF cable testing
  • Tan Delta cable maintenance, testing and assessment
  • Partial Discharge maintenance, testing and assessment
  • Cable fault locating services and repairs
  • Sheath fault locating services and repairs

Switchgear Services

Low Voltage:

  • Onsite circuit breaker maintenance (insulation resistance / contact resistance / mechanism)
  • Full functional operational testing
  • Primary current injection protection testing
  • Secondary current injection protection testing
  • Workshop / Rotables repairs & rebuilds
  • Onsite retrofitting of breakers
  • OCR relay protection upgrades / retro fitting
Medium Voltage:

  • Onsite circuit breaker maintenance
  • Full functional operational testing including (insulation resistance / contact resistance / timing / travel measurements / AC withstand / minimum close and trip)
  • SF6 filling / analysis and condition assessment
  • SF6 leak detection and repairs
  • Workshop / Rotables repairs & rebuilds
  • Mechanism measurements and adjustments
  • DC withstand vacuum bottle testing
  • Oil breaker testing and assessment
  • GIS testing and equipment maintenance
High Voltage:

  • Onsite switchyard circuit breaker maintenance
  • Switchyard isolators and primary equipment maintenance
  • Full functional operational testing including (insulation resistance / contact resistance / timing / travel measurements / dynamic resistance / spring charge time / AC withstand / DLA / minimum close and trip)
  • SF6 filling / analysis and condition assessment
  • SF6 leak detection and repairs
  • Workshop / Rotables repairs & rebuilds
  • GIS testing and equipment maintenance

Transformers

Maintenance & Repairs:

  • Oil streamlining / filtration services (Up to 6000 Lt /Hr )
  • Oil leak and bushing repairs / replacement
  • Protective instrument repairs and testing
  • Radiator replacement / cooling system upgrades
  • Workshop refurbishments / corrosion repairs / leaks
  • Workshop refurbishments of full gasket overhauls
  • AVR maintenance testing
  • Oil sampling and analysis
  • OLTC service by OEM trained personnel
Testing:

  • Insulation resistance & Polarisation Index
  • Ratio and Vector group test
  • Winding resistance
  • Dynamic winding resistance tests for transformers fitted with OLTC
  • Dielectric loss angle (DLA)
  • Leakage reactance
  • Sweep frequency response analysis
  • Single phase excitation current
  • Dielectric frequency response (DIRANA)
  • CT tests
  • AVR commissioning with OLTC
  • Instrument calibration and testing
  • Oil tests

Protection Relay Testing

HES has a large team of competent protection relay engineers and technicians to complete maintenance works in all aspects of the power industry.

  • Primary plant scheme testing
  • Secondary injection scheme testing
  • Recloser maintenance testing
  • Modification of protection setting files for relay protection
  • Upgrades to IEC 61850 relay protocols and set up
  • Retro fitting / upgrades of relays from electromechanical to
    newer electronic reliability
  • Renewables protection scheme testing
  • Power generation protection scheme testing

Earthing

Your earth grid integrity is critical to the correct functional operation of a protection system, ongoing verification of this ensures your compliance and reliability.

  • Fall of potential (FOP) maintenance grid testing
  • Conductivity testing
  • Step and touch verification testing
  • Equipotential potential rise (EPR) verification testing
  • Lightning protection system testing
  • Soil resistivity testing
  • Current distribution testing
  • Earthing system incident investigations
  • Locating existing grids that have become buried over time