ECI works with every client to fully understand the needs and expectations for their substation or switchyard projects. ECI’s station design team has over 35 years’ experience on several hundred design projects throughout the U.S.

We provide design services to a wide variety of electric utilities including municipal, cooperative and investor-owned, as well as independent power producers. Projects range from small facility additions to major 500 kV switch-yards and generation interconnect stations. ECI’s staff remains dedicated to maintaining a high level of technical knowledge, incorporating leading edge concepts and solutions for all facets of substation design while utilizing state-of-the-art technical tools and software.

ECI has acquired and developed a myriad of design programs for use in substation bus & foundation design, grounding, short circuit, lighting, lighting protection and structural loading. Our engineers are experienced in almost every conceivable bus arrangement scheme utilized, including radial, ring, modified ring, paired element, main & trans-fer, breaker and one-half and double-bus/double breaker.

ECI is experienced in the application of phase-shifting trans-formers, EHV series capacitor banks, multi-stage back-to-back shunt capacitors and energy storage systems in addition to possessing extensive knowledge and experience in the field of system protection philosophy.