Hydroelectric Design & Licensing
Sunrise Engineering, Inc. offers a full range of hydroelectric design and planning services from initial feasibility studies through design, start-up and operation training.
List of services offered:
Valuations, Appraisals and Due DiligenceBack to Top
- New Projects
- Sites are evaluated on a preliminary basis to allow owners to make a go/no-go decision to move ahead with a feasibility study for development or acquisition of the facility
- Existing Facilities
- Appraisal to determine value of existing facilities
- Determine the viability of an existing hydroelectric generating facility
- Assists in the shut down / abandon / refurbish / rebuild decision
- Purchase of Existing Facilities
- Determine reliable generating capacity, value of the facility, expected system life, expected operation and maintenance cost
- Technical consultant to lending institutions
- Modeling of generating capacity
- Hydrology studies to determine flow expectations
- Stream flow measurement and analysis
- Flow splitting and turbine flow diversion analysis
- Site conditions, geotechnical studies
- Penstock route evaluation
- Environmental concerns, environmental studies
- Water right evaluation
- Preliminary design and layout
- Cost estimate
- Funding scenario
- Cash flow projection
- FERC Re-Licensing
- FERC New Licensing
- Environmental Studies and Coordination
- FERC License Exemptions
Funding and Power Purchase Negotiations and AgreementsBack to Top
- Locate Private and Public Sources of Project Funding
- Assistance in negotiating with power providers for contracted power purchase
- Prepare technical section of Official Statement for Bonding
- Impoundment structures
- Fish screens and ladders
- Intake and diversion structures including trash racks and grizzlies
- Penstock design including high pressure considerations. (thrust restraint, surge protection, etc.)
- System valving. (butterfly, needle, spherical, Howell-Bunger, ring gates, etc for penstock protection, bottom and compensation outlets, turbine inlet, etc.)
- Hydraulic gates (surface and submerged radial gates, flap gates, fixed-wheel gates, sliding bonneted gates, etc.)
- Generation Facility including layout, architectural, site work, access, landscaping, etc
- Turbine selection (Pelton, Francis, Kaplan, bulb, pit, S-type, crossflow and turgo)
- Speed governors
- Generators. (synchronous and induction)
- Automatic voltage regulation
- High voltage systems and substations
- Instrumentation, Control and SCADA
- Power station control and ancillary systems
- Tailrace design
- Preparation of Bid Package
Construction AdministrationBack to Top
- Administration of Bidding and Negotiation of Contractors and Suppliers including evaluation of bidders and contract negotiations
- Review and approval of contractors’ and supplier’s submittals
- Construction observation and construction quality control enforcement
- Review of contractor’s and supplier’s work and approval of quality control plans
- Factory inspection
- Witness of turbine tests
- Supervision of onsite start-up, testing and commissioning
- Onsite inspection of entire facility including impoundment, diversion, penstock powerhouse, mechanical equipment, electrical and tail race
- Pay management of construction process
- Preparation of Operation and Maintenance Manuals
- Contract Record Drawings of electrical, instrumentation and control
- Warrantee oversight
- Not just good intentions, we provide training that is adequately structured and given the necessary resources
- Typical subjects covered are:
- Penstock materials, repair, and safety requirements
- Controls and valving
- Hydroelectric Generating Plant operation
- Ancillary equipment and facilities
- Our courses are tailored to provide your personnel with the knowledge to operate and maintain your specific installation
