Powering Reliability and Resiliency

Innovative solutions, from design through commissioning, for new, expanded or retrofitted facilities.

Substations are a critical connection point between your transmission and distribution systems. Regular maintenance and upgrades are vital to ensuring that the system continues to serve your customers  uninterrupted. TRC  oversees all your substation rebuilds, expansions and greenfield projects. 

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Seamless, Integrated Substation Solutions

TRC’s electrical substation design engineers support projects through every phase of development, from planning through commissioning. We implement projects from  initial concept, feasibility and planning studies, land acquisition, permitting and complete civil, structural and electrical engineering to deliver fully integrated and automated substations, switchyards and switching stations.

Our experience includes:

  • Design through 765 kV
  • Gas Insulated Substations (GIS) and Open-Air Design
  • 3-D Design
  • Protection and Controls
  • Automation and Integration
  • SCADA System Design
  • Testing and Commissioning
  • Ground Grid Design
  • Control House Design
  • Site Surveying
  • Site and Foundation Design
  • Permitting
  • Structural Analysis, Inspection and Repair
  • Security

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Maintain Reliability and Strengthen Resiliency With TRC

With decades of hands-on experience, TRC’s substation design engineers deliver tailored solutions to optimize performance and minimize outage risks. Partner with us to safeguard your operations and ensure long-term reliability for your power systems.

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Sharing Our Perspectives

Our practitioners share their insights and perspectives on the trends and challenges shaping the market.

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Regulatory Updates

FERC Issues Order 2023 to Resolve Interconnection Process Issues

September 25, 2023

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved Order 2023 to facilitate and improve the speed and reliability of adding new energy resources to the power system

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Preparing the Grid for Transportation Electrification

August 14, 2023

Electric vehicle use is on the rise, and cities need to prepare. Discover how the power grid can accommodate growing transportation electrification trends.

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NERC Files Report on Effectiveness on CIP-014 Physical Security Standard

May 25, 2023

On behalf of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), its President and CEO Jim Robb, recently presented to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) a summary of NERC’s report on the effectiveness of NERC’s CIP-014 Physical Security Standard. There were almost 1,700 physical security incidents reported to the Electricity-Information Security Analysis Center (E-ISAC) in 2022, an increase of 10.5% from 2021.

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FERC Issues Order on Cold Weather Reliability Standards

April 27, 2023

FERC has approved two NERC proposed cold weather-related reliability standards.

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Modeling Power System Hosting Capacity

March 31, 2023

As renewable energy development booms, and distributed energy resources (DERs) proliferate across the grid, the demand for a more efficient and timely interconnection process is at an all-time high. To meet regulatory deadlines and satisfy the needs of both developers and customers, utilities must tackle an increasingly complex array of system impact studies, analyses and reports, under ever shrinking timelines.

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FERC Orders Internal Network Security Monitoring Rule to be Finalized

March 14, 2023

FERC directed NERC to develop Reliability Standards to implement INSM within trusted CIP environments.

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Webinar Replay: Substation Automation – Best Practices for IEC 61850 Implementation

March 29, 2022

Modernizing utility equipment, standards and processes pays dividends for improved safety, security and reliability. But transitioning to a new high-tech system model can be challenging.

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Substation Hardening: Don’t Be a Pawn to Security

October 28, 2021

Protecting our critical energy infrastructure from physical security threats is certainly not a game, but the process can take some important lessons from the game of chess.

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How Does a Distribution Grid Work?

October 2, 2021

Electric distribution systems rely on sophisticated technology to provide power when needed. Electricity is generated on-demand, which means there are often peak periods when providers see a greater need for power and the system must prove responsive.

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Managing the Future of Electric Utilities

August 1, 2021

The future of electric utilities depends on IT/OT convergence to ensure reliability and resiliency.

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Regulatory Updates

Cold Weather Reliability Preparedness and Hardening

March 22, 2021

The latest weather impacts to power reliability have accelerated the need for mandatory regulatory compliance changes.

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Regulatory Updates

NERC Issues Lessons Learned on Misoperations Due to Mixing Relay Technologies

August 13, 2020

On July 10, 2020 NERC released new Lessons Learned guidance to address situations where multiple composite protection systems have misoperated as a result of mixing protective relay technologies at the remote terminals of directional comparison blocking (DCB) schemes. This technical information will help utilities improve the reliability of the Bulk Power System.

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TRC Powers Up New Testing and Commissioning Training Center

May 8, 2019

TRC’s new Testing and Commissioning Center is home to the TRC Power Academy, an intensive educational program that provides hands-on training for engineers and technicians.

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TRC Acquires Utility Support Systems, Inc.

July 22, 2013

TRC Companies has acquired Georgia-based Utility Support Systems, Inc. , a professional engineering company primarily supporting the power/utility market.