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Electricity
Transmission and Distribution.
Tenix is a leading independent provider of power asset services to utility, mining and other infrastructure asset owners. We are currently delivering three of the largest term contracts in Australasia.
We offer turnkey solutions that include design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, maintenance and operation across electricity transmission and distribution assets.
Operating in both greenfield and brownfield environments, we offer specialist expertise in the construction and operation of transmission and zone substations and switchyards as well as sub transmission and distribution networks. As part of this we have constructed fifty major substations in the last three years. We also offer HV and EHV testing and commissioning, electrical engineering and SCADA, telemetry and process control services.
Tenix delivers tailored solutions that utilise world best practice processes and systems, offering relationship-focussed performance from concept through to commissioning and into service and maintenance support. Our highly skilled workforce is committed to deliver award-winning environmental performance and meet the highest safety standards.
Tenix provides:
- Design, construction and maintenance of overhead and underground power sub-transmissions and distribution networks
- Design, construction, maintenance and upgrades of substations and switchyards up to 275kV (greenfield and brownfield)
- Communications design and installation
- Glove and Barrier Liveline techniques
- Public street and major road lighting
- Traffic signals and intelligent transport systems
- Metering and servicing of electrical installations
- 24/7 fault and emergency services
- Fault finding on underground cables
- Commissioning of underground cables - VLF and Hi-pot testing
- Pole top asset inspection
- SCADA installation, integration and configuration
- Testing and commissioning
Tenix also provides construction, maintenance and upgrade services for electricity generation assets and associated plant. Please see Electicity Generation for further details.
What we do
- Design, Construct and Install
- Major substations and switchyards from concept through commissioning
- Distribution networks
- SCADA, telemetry and process control systems
- Maintain
- Major substations and switchyards service and maintenance support
- Distribution networks maintenance management including vegetation management; overhead, underground and zone substation maintenance, new connections, public lighting maintenance and 24x7 faults and emergency management and rectification
- SCADA, telemetry and process control systems
- Upgrade of major substations, switchyards and distribution networks which include:
- Project management
- Management of Earthworks and Civil works
- Major Equipment Installation
- Primary and Secondary System Installation Testing
- SCADA, telemetry and process control systems upgrade
How do we do it
Using in-house skills, systems and resources in:
- Engineering and Design - including electrical, mechanical and civil, structural and process control
- Glove and Barrier Live Line techniques
- Program and Project Management
- Construction - including electrical, mechanical and civil
- Commissioning
- Maintenance - planning and execution
- Logistics/Procurement - including scheduling and dispatch
- Quality Management - ISO 9001
- Health and Safety Management - AS/NZ 4801
- Environmental Management - ISO 14001
- Asset Management including
- Condition assessment
- Performance monitoring
- Database management
- Network planning
- Asset optimisation
Our customers
- Transmission infrastructure owners and operators, including Powerlink and ElectraNet
- Distribution infrastructure owners and operators, including SP AusNet, Ergon Energy, Western Power, Powerco and Fiji Electricity Authority
- Railway operators, including RailCorp
- Urban estate developers
- Councils
- Mining and Resource companies, including BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto
- Road operators
- Other industrial organisations requiring related services
Current and recent projects
ElectraNet Dual Contractor Agreement (2006 - 2011), South Australia
For ElectraNet - South Australia's electricity transmission system owner
Our role: The delivery of ElectraNet's Regulated Capital Works Program. Under the arrangement, ElectraNet has outsourced delivery of its works program to two principal partners, of which Tenix Alliance is one.
Outcome: The projects delivered by Tenix have been on-time, to budget and of high quality. One of the substations has been recognised for natural resource management by the South Australian Government as part of the 2007 Rural Landholder Awards. The partnership has also served to increase the pool of available labour-in-training, both apprentices and trainees.
T-squared Alliance (2000 - 2008), Victoria
For SP AusNet - Major Victorian electricity and gas distributor
Our role: Design, asset and maintenance management, vegetation management, overhead, underground line and zone substation construction and maintenance, new connections, public lighting maintenance and 24/7 faults and emergency management and rectification.
Outcome: Over the life of t-squared the performance for electricity has varied from 104-107% with the 2006/07 financial year achieving a best ever result of 109.5%.
Powerco Alliance (Ongoing), New Zealand
For Powerco - New Zealand's second largest electricity and gas distributor
Our role: Tenix entered into an evergreen Alliance agreement with Powerco Limited to provide design, construction and maintenance services for its electricity and gas distribution networks serving New Zealand's North Island.
Outcome: Tenix achieved Improved utilisation (labour utilisation has improved from 60% to 92%); excellent works program delivery (100% of works program delivered in first year of Tenix Alliance management -versus 75% prior to alliance formation) and provided complete transparency on cost to serve (Powerco has a full and open book view and is able to influence how actual costs are determined).