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Substation Technician
Substation Technician A substation Technician performs predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance, and operation of equipment in distribution, transmission and generation...Read more
Substation Technician A substation Technician performs predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance, and operation of equipment in distribution, transmission and generation...Read more
Substation Technician
A substation Technician performs predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance, and operation of equipment in distribution, transmission and generation station facilities.
The focus is on implementing the Association’s reliability centered maintenance program and on data collection analysis and trending involved in predictive maintenance.
A substation technician is a member of a skilled technical team, including other substation [...]
Site Engineer
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Site engineers perform a technical, organizational and supervisory role on construction projects, including setting out roads, drains, sewers and structures involved in construction operations.
Site engineers apply designs and plans to mark out the site and can be involved in projects ranging from small scale to multi-million Rand projects. This may include civil, [...]
HV Commissioning Engineers/Technician
A Power Station Commissioning Electrical Engineer does the following when being involved in the construction of a new Power Station:
They oversee all commissioning activities and the start up of equipment and plant. The commissioning engineer will also be responsible for analysing commissioning procedures and instructions. They will need to identify who should be [...]
A day in the life of a Project Engineer
My responsibilities as a project engineer changes dynamically between two disciplines during the project life cycle, one of Project Engineering and Project Management .and involves both office and site work activities.
My day as a project engineer changes everyday depending on the project phase since different skills are [...]
Power Generation Plants:
A facility designed to produce electric energy from another form of energy, such as fossil fuel, nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, solar thermal, and wind.
Ever since humans started burning wood or other organic matter to keep warm and to cook food, we’ve been using biomass energy, or bioenergy. Today we can also use biomass to fuel vehicles, generate electricity, and develop biobased products.
At the moment renewable energy is a big word all around the world. Around the world various sources are being researched like biomass and geothermal to name but two.
Transmission Lines
Transmission lines carry electric energy from one point to another in an electric power system. They can carry alternating current or direct current or a system can be a combination of both. Also, electric current can be carried by either overhead or underground lines. The main characteristics that distinguish transmission lines from distribution lines [...]
A typical power generation, transmission and distribution system has these components: Power Generation Plants, Substations, Transmission Line and Distribution systems.
Underground distribution substations are also located near to the end-users. Distribution substation transformers change the subtransmission voltage to lower levels for use by end-users. Typical distribution voltages vary from 19,920 volts to 2400 volts.