Experience To Match Challenging Demands
Valdes has established an experienced team for utility plant retrofits and upgrades. Our mix of personnel —including utilities, independent power producers, equipment manufacturers and engineering firms — allows us to approach your project with the highest degree of technical expertise and with the mindset of an owner. Valdes provides attention to detail but is also practical and cost-effective. We bring this same approach and expertise to steam production and distribution, gas storage and gate stations, renewable energy and water treatment plants.
Coal Fired Power Plants
Gas Fired Power Plants (Simple & Combined Cycle)
Biomass Fired Power Plants
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Plants
Cogeneration Plants
Combined Heat & Power Plants
Reciprocating Engine Power Plants
Mechanical Systems Design
Substations
Distribution
Transmission Lines
Protection & Controls
SCADA & Automation
Communications
Renewables
Generation Interconnection
Substation Security
While production equipment often takes center stage, plant infrastructure—such as platforms, major structures, ladders, walkways, equipment foundati...
As a part of transforming its power generation fleet from coal to natural gas generation, a large utility client needed to understand the potential of...
A utility client’s combustion turbine peaking plant uses reverse osmosis (RO) water for exhaust gas emission controls. The plant was designed for RO...
In preparation for the construction of a liquid natural gas plant on the current site of their Site Bulk Material Handling (SBMH) Coal Pile #3, a util...
A local department of natural resources requested that Valdes’ utility client study the feasibility of installing a variable frequency drive (VFD) o...
A utility client will be bringing various plant units offline. The units will be decommissioned and retired. The plant is a coal-based power plant wit...
A utility client has a combustion turbine peaking plant that uses reverse osmosis (RO) water for exhaust gas emission controls. The plant was designed...
A utility client contracted Valdes Architecture & Engineering (Valdes) to perform an engineering scoping study for the replacement of the forced draft...
An engineering client required that existing conditions be captured for a 3.5-mile transmission corridor to design crossing locations for future utili...
A utility client needed to plan for an outage in their supercritical generating station. They had identified systems that were in need of replacement,...
The units and switchgear for our client’s power plant had been in service for over 60 years, were nearing their end of life and presenting reliabili...
A power plant client needed to redirect ash contact water from an on-site landfill to wet scrubbers for pollution mitigation to comply with a consent ...
An international manufacturer of automotive components needed a plan for the installation of solar panels on the roof of their plant as a part of thei...
A power plant had numerous 480V load centers (LCs) that had reached their end of life and most had no spare capacity. It was clear to the client that ...
A client was looking to sell its trigeneration facility and required mechanical and electrical upgrades. Due to the installation of a new upstream sub...
A refinery client initiated a project to increase the incoming power capability from the local utility to the 34kV busses at its refinery. They needed...
