SPE Electrical are now Aurora Power Consulting
SPE Electrical have finished a major rebranding exercise and are now called Aurora Power Consulting. This change of name has been carefully developed over the last few months, and we think better reflects our vision moving forward, as a leading power system consultancy within the UK. We hope you enjoy the new website and layout, […]
Battery Energy Storage Systems – Dynamic Containment & P28/2
Grid Connected Battery Energy Storage Systems – Dynamic Containment Part 1: Introduction This post is a follow on to our previous post, which discussed battery energy storage in general, and its application to power arbitrage.In this post we talk about battery storage & P28/2, which is the UK standard on voltage disturbance. This topic is […]
ETAP – Official Partner
Aurora Power Consulting are an ETAP Official Partner Again! Aurora are pleased to announce that once again we are an official partner company of Operations Technology Inc., who produce the industry leading Electrical Transients Analysis Program or ETAP for short. Here at Aurora we look forward to working with Derek and all the ETAP community […]
Battery Energy Storage Systems – Power Arbitrage
Battery Energy Storage Systems – Power Arbitrage Part 1: Introduction Battery Energy Storage Schemes are very versatile plants and can be used for a number of different services, depending on the plant design and aims; this can include services such as power arbitrage, voltage control, and the new Dynamic Containment (DC) service which replaces the […]
GSYS – Sarsang Development – ETAP Power System Studies
One of of our other exciting projects that has kicked off this year is the to provide a full suite of ETAP power system studies to GSYS for the Sarsang development in Kazakhstan; this small but highly intricate Oil & Gas project is to develop a new oil extraction facility in a remote area of […]
UK Energy White Paper 2020
The UK government has just published its 2020 Energy White Paper titled ‘Powering Our Net Zero Future’, outlining its plans for decarbonizing the UK by 2050. In this post I will try and pull out the key highlights, and my take on them. This is really just a quick first read, and I will try and […]
Website Refresh
We have recently finished a project to upgrade our website, to help improve the overall user experience. A thank you and hat-tip to Sam Becketts for carrying out all the design and hard work. The website now has a new more dynamic menu, specific sub-pages with details on more the of major sectors we cover, […]
ISO 9001 Accreditation
We are please to announce that we have finally achieved ISO 9001 accreditation. This important milestone will benefit both Aurora and out customers, as the developments in our quality management system will help to ensure that all deliverables meet the highest standard, and our ongoing commitment to right first time will improve project schedules and […]
Understanding Simple Electrical Reliability and Availability and Lost Revenue for Power Systems
Electrical Reliability – An Introduction Electrical Reliability is something that tends to be talked about often in electrical design, but usually only in general terms like an N-1 outage or an N-2 outage. This approach is OK in terms of simple reliability, for redundancy purposes, but it doesn’t really consider the issue of how reliable […]