Our Services
Generation Project Development and Construction
Project Management
Power Team Consulting personnel bring vast power project experience across a broad range of technologies. Typical roles for us include Owner’s Representative, Project Director / Project Manager, Discipline Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical / I&C, and Civil), Regulatory, Project Services, and Indigenous Relations.
Our Project Management services cover:
Project Director / Project Manager
Owners’ representative / consultant
Establishment of Project Development Plans and Project Execution Plans
Contractor management
Risk Management
Cost Management
Schedule Management
Stakeholder Management
Project Specification, Conceptual Engineering, and Engineering Oversight
Our team establishes or supports project development, procurement, contracting, and execution strategy. Using Thermoflow™ software, we can simulate gas-fired projects and estimate costs, leading to project conceptual design and specification. This includes:
Project conceptual design and specification
Major equipment specification
Cogeneration project integration studies
Project development, procurement and execution strategy
Power generation technology evaluation and selection
Major equipment evaluation, due diligence, modeling and selection
Conceptual level cost estimation
Owners cost estimation
Technical and commercial oversight of EPC / EPCM contractors
Management of equipment suppliers and fabricators
Inspection and Test Plan Development
Quality Assurance
Expediting
Contract Development and Negotiations
We are used to working with and managing Owner’s Engineers, EPC, and EPCM contractors and regulatory consultants, scrutinizing their activities and maintaining the interests of project Owners. We have developed and negotiated many contracts for engineering services, project execution, major equipment procurement, and long-term service agreements. Power Team Consulting also supports bid evaluations and selection as well as the alignment of technical specifications and requirements to contract terms. Contract types include:
EPC / EPCM contracts
Turbine Supply Agreements
Long Term Service Agreements
Other specialist services or equipment supply
Cogen Owner / Host Agreements
Regulatory Management
In addition to the our areas of regulatory expertise mentioned above, Power Team Consulting specializes in:
Regulatory plan development, scheduling, and implementation
Management of regulatory activities including studies, tests, modeling, regulatory engagement, and public consultation
Grid interconnection application planning and management
Operations and Maintenance Planning
We not only bring exceptionally strong project experience, but also come with an extensive background of power generation operations, maintenance, and resolution of engineering issues experienced over the life of generating stations. This unique perspective equips us to specify project features with long term reliability and availability in mind and to negotiate service agreements from the perspective of those who have overhauled, maintained, and improved equipment over its life. More specifically, our services include:
Operations and Maintenance Mobilization Plan Development
O&M life cycle budget development, including sustaining capital
Major Maintenance Plan development
Additional Project Services
Power Team Consulting’s service offerings go well beyond power generation development and are always tailored to the specifics of your project and the needs of your team.
Generation Asset Acquisition
Power Team Consulting’s experience with operating fleet management provides great strength when assessing generation asset acquisition opportunities. We draw upon this expertise when undertaking due diligence assessments, appraising maintenance programs, and assessing operational and maintenance history. We further leverage our knowledge of new project development, recognizing state-of-the-art equipment, features, and performance when considering the competitiveness of acquisition opportunities. We offer:
Acquisition due diligence assessments
Equipment technical appraisal
Maintenance program review
Operational history review
Consulting to Owners / Investors
Power Generation Operating Fleet Support
Our joint experience as former power station managers, maintenance managers, resident power station engineers, and generating fleet support experts provides a wealth of knowledge that our clients can tap into. We have planned and led turnarounds, undertaken numerous plant betterment projects, and resolved countless operational problems. Our expertise includes:
Operating and maintenance problem resolution support
Plant betterments, uprates and upgrades
Consultation on gas turbine requirements and issues: overhauls, hardware management, upgrades / uprates, life cycle management, technical issue resolution, rotor life extension / replacement, OEM interface management
Project risk management
Turnaround / outage management consultation
Major maintenance plan development
Operations and maintenance best practice development and implementation
Asset retirement obligation assessments
Decommissioning project planning
General Project Support
Combining decades of project experience with formal training in Project Management Institute (PMI) methods, Power Team Consulting is ready to provide support across the full range of any project’s needs. This includes aspects such as Project Management Plan Development, Workstream Definition, Project Risk Management, Cost and Schedule Management, Quality Management, Heath, Safety and Environmental Management, Regulatory Management, Project Services, and Indigenous Relations.
Business Development
We are experts in business development of a full range of power technologies: Thermal Generation, Hydro, Pumped Hydro, Wind, and Solar. Our project evaluation and analytics methodology includes drawing in technical expertise to help define the best solutions.
Strategic Communications
Power Team Consulting specializes in project communication management and reporting, as well as communications services and consulting for small and medium-sized enterprises. This includes working with, and as part of, project management teams to optimize communications within the team and to external stakeholders, and to provide solid reporting at regular intervals and at project stage gates.
We also work directly with clients to provide services in strategic messaging, ghost writing, research, website management, and social media.
Effective communication is a core element of successful projects, from routine reporting, presentations, development of various project management tools and plans, regulatory and governing body submittals, and more. Our Team offers state of the art communications expertise using a broad range of media types and tools.
Indigenous Partnerships
Indigenous partnerships is paramount for all energy-related projects in Canada and the United States and, as such, there are ample opportunities to identify and cultivate beneficial partnerships across the sector.
Project engagement with Indigenous leadership and representatives in Canada and the United States
Partnership facilitation, maintenance and management
Co-development of partnership parameters, project goals, and ownership
Indigenous asset development
Coordination and support for public consultations
Promotion of environmental stewardship based on region-specific and Indigenous regulatory standards as applicable
Identification of areas for future projects based on determined priorities