RENEWABLE ENERGY ENGINEERING CONSULTANT

Noel Johnston is an experienced energy advisor who can help your business achieve energy efficiency objectives. As a renewable energy engineer, passionate about innovation and clean energy methods, Noel can realise success in all your electrical projects.

Noel has 17 years of international and Australian experience exclusively in the power engineering industry. Major industry experience spans revenue metering, distribution, and power generation. 14 years of this experience has been in design and commissioning (projects up to $70M), and the remaining as a engineering team manager. Noel has a strong focus on project managing renewable power generation stations. This includes both development and leadership of electrical interconnection applications for distributors in all Australian states. As a registered Chartered Professional Engineer (RPEQ), you can trust designs and advice are compliant to regulatory and Australian Standards. Providing the best customer service is our primary motive, so click here to speak to your trusted energy consultant.

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Engineering Consultancy - Focus

Engineering management: technical and standard operational procedures, quality assurance, and team coordination
Asset management: reliability engineering, reliability monitoring, Root Cause Analysis, benchmarking and efficiency planning. (Devise and execute improvement initiatives to address identified issues, ensuring compliance to procedures)
Financial management: budget forecasting and preparation, tenders, bid analysis & costings
Project management: through all phases, asset delivery and integration, resource management, risk assessment & gantt charts
Stakeholder relationships: strong experience in effective communication, collaboration & coordination
OH&S: strategies, policies and practices - safety first orientation

Engineering Consultancy - Skills

Guaranteed quality in engineering designs. Below is a subset of design capabilities:

Selection & design of HV switchboards, HV transformers, HV SVGs, HV shunt reactors, as per AS 2067, 62271
Secondary systems design (CT/VT calcs, protection, tariff metering to state requirements)
LV switchboard design to AS3000, AS3008, AS61439 (SLD & schematics for MCCs, control panels, fire panels) in AutoCad
LV cable schedule, calculations & equipment selection (UPS, DC-DC converters, MCCBs, battery sizing)
Protection studies (time current curves/relay & fuse coordination, SKM load flow, fault levels, relay settings, distributor compliance)
Interconnection design (incorporating service & install rules, HV Metering, distributor standards, Chapter 5 of NER, GPS generator performance standards, Voltage Control Strategy, R1 & R2 testing & reporting). Firsthand experience in alternator droop setting adjustment, power factor mode, calculate short circuit ratio and development of the math block diagram for EMT Electro-Magnetic Transient power system modelling.
Power quality design and emissions analysis as per AS61000.3.6 (assess unbalance, THD, harmonic & flicker compliance)
Hazardous area design to AS60079.10 (entity calcs, zone diagram, IECEx, inspection schedules) Ex’i, Ex’d, Ex’e, Ex’o, Ex’n
Earthing & lightning design (Wenner soil resistivity tests, IEEE 80 calculations, ENA EG-1 touch/step voltage assessment, Argon) to AS2067
Instrumentation design (4-20mA source & sink analog repeaters, HART, RTDs, pressure, flow and radar level transmitters, etc) including developing P&IDs and facilitator for HAZOP or CHAZOP
Generator design (Woodward Easygen, DVR, speed controller, air/fuel mixture map for gas engines) as per AS3010. Standby, baseload, islanding and paralleling generation design
Communication design (Modbus RTU, TCP, Mirror-bits, DNP 3.0, serial RS-232, RS-485)
Commissioning (Shutdown planning and implementation, gantt charts, quality assurance, FAT/SAT on-site testing) with a strong focus on commissioning safety plans