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Distribution design covers everything between the substation and the customer: the poles, conductors, transformers, and underground infrastructure that carry electricity through neighborhoods, commercial areas, industrial sites, and data centers. We design these systems for utilities and developers, from initial load calculations through construction ready drawings.

What We Do

Whether it is a single service upgrade or a new subdivision's full distribution network, we design overhead and underground systems from 2.4 kV to 44 kV. We verify the existing infrastructure and surrounding conditions in the field, so the design reflects what is actually on the pole and in the ground, not just what is on record. We stay on the project through construction too, managing it and providing support so the design holds up once crews are on site.

Our work covers both regulated utility systems and privately owned ones, from residential subdivisions and commercial developments to industrial sites and data centers. Whatever the project, the goal is the same: a design that performs the way it was engineered to.

 

Full Scope of Work

Overhead

  • Pole framing and attachment standards
  • Third party attachment analysis
  • Wood, concrete, steel, and FRP structures
  • Long span crossings and grade one construction

Underground

  • Duct bank and trench design
  • Cable ampacity and thermal analysis
  • Bedding and backfill specification
  • Mutual heating effects of buried circuits

Project Delivery

  • Drafting in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and MicroStation
  • Bills of materials and construction packages
  • Project management
  • Construction management
  • Regulatory and utility documentation

Detailed Line Modelling with PLS CADD Suite   

  • Model overhead line in PLS CADD
  • Analyze structure and component loading under multiple weather conditions
  • Check line clearances and tensions across the full route
  • Compare wood, concrete, steel, and fiber reinforced polymer structures side by side
  • Apply to long span crossings over highways, rivers and environmentally sensitive areas
  • Perform steel lattice and tubular tower analysis and design using PLS-TOWER and PLS-POLE

Owner’s Engineering

  • Act as Owner’s Engineer on larger capital programs
  • Provide independent technical oversight through design review, construction, and commissioning
  • Check that design intent carries through to what actually gets built

Training

RR Power develops and delivers customized training programs tailored to each client's specific standards, procedures, workforce experience, and operational challenges, ensuring practical and immediately applicable learning outcomes.

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