Storm Eowyn Response with ESB Networks in Ireland
Our dedicated overhead lines team from Integrated Utility Services (IUS) and Northern Powergrid (NPg) joined forces with ESB to restore power across Ireland in the wake of Storm Eowyn.
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Our dedicated overhead lines team from Integrated Utility Services (IUS) and Northern Powergrid (NPg) joined forces with ESB to restore power across Ireland in the wake of Storm Eowyn.
Outstanding Team Effort by Integrated Utility Services (IUS) Overhead Line teams and contractors, who worked in partnership with Northern Powergrid’s teams to tackle damage caused by Storm Eowyn - the sixth storm in just three months.
Integrated Utility Services Limited are proud to announce that we have been appointed by Vattenfall IDNO to build a High Voltage network, which will be the third contract we’ve signed with them!
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We have extended our NERS accredited scopes to include the following partial scopes following our audit on the 20th December.
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As Storm Darragh swept across the region at the weekend with winds of up to 75mph, the IUS Overhead Line (OHL) Team was on the frontlines, stepping up to support Northern Powergrid in their response. 🌲⚡
Deployment Highlights:
Saturday (7 Dec): We rallied to areas around Durham and Darlington, tackling damage caused by storm conditions and fallen trees. Thousands of Northern Powergrid customers had their supplies restored through our teams who worked hard into the early hours.
The VisNet Hub is designed to provide visibility of voltage and current for LV distribution substations. The Hub monitors the outgoing ways of an LV board providing insight about load, faults, and electrical condition across the network. It can measure three phases, plus the neutral for up to six Low Voltage circuits, busbar voltage, and battery status.
Integrated Utility Services Overhead Lines Teams supported Northern Powergrid with the response and restoration of overhead lines which were down due to Storm Bert this weekend.
Mathew Preston, General Manager – Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, Northern Powergrid, said:
On Wednesday 20th November, Jack Lines, Rachel Little and Mark Pemberton attended at the Yorkshire Water Developer Day at University of Bradford Stadium.
In Scotland IUS has delivered a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), which impressed Michał Kuciński of Tesla. "I want to acknowledge the outstanding work that the IUS team has been consistently delivering at the Little Raith site over the past few months. Certainly, from my side, it feels like Tesla and IUS developed a partnership with a common goal of completing our BESS project on time, in the best possible quality. The team that I’m working with on day-to-day basis is of utmost help, impresses with professionalism, puts attention to small but important details and represents a united front with Tesla. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the entire IUS team involved.”
Johnathan Ridsdale from Portakabin has sent IUS positive feedback. "Many thanks for the excellent emergency response and work carried out on our High Voltage cable fault. Special thanks for going above and beyond in urgently attending the site, making it safe, and staying with us to find the fault. Thank you for putting plans in place to bring plant and a workforce to the site, in order to excavate the cable and restore power."
Nissan utilise IUS for both substation construction and maintenance at their car manufacturing plant in Sunderland. Ian McClelland, a Nissan Electrical Engineer, has thanked the IUS team for all of the support provided to assist the operation of their plant, which is critical to production.
IUS design, procure and construct contestable connections including at the University of Leeds. Simon Gough, Head of Engineering Services sent his appreciation to IUS for the assistance with a Northern Powergrid 33kV connection application, associated with a new primary substation.
ESP Utilities Group are an Independent Distribution Network Operator and IUS deliver contestable connections to their adoptable standards. Following a recent connection, Adrian White an Operations Engineer at ESP commented, “May I congratulate you all for the build and care taken at the substation, very well done.”
Persimmon Homes thanked the IUS Multi Utility team for their good performance in recent months and on the Garforth and Skelmanthorpe schemes in particular. These are challenging developments and Samuel Sowery the Technical Director recognised that, “IUS have gone above and beyond to complete the works.”
WGM have recognised an outstanding level of service provided by IUS at Dalmarnock Wastewater Treatment Works. Scott Gallagher, a WGM Senior Contracts Manager, paid tribute to the performance of the IUS team, stating “I was delighted with the professionalism, flexibility and technical expertise, when assisting WGM in restoring essential supplies to the site.”
CMDP engaged with IUS to deliver the power to a new Water Treatment Works for Southern Water at Burham Water. Following a shutdown, Neil Cuthbert of CDMP commented, "Sounds like an amazing effort by all to achieve this milestone, which will provide the site resilience. Just goes to show what can be done by a great team of committed professionals."
IUS has delivered a number of prestigious projects for BELCO in Bermuda, including the 22kV substations and 4kV substations associated with the new International Airport. The client’s representative, Jonathan Pedro praised IUS for delivering the project on time and to budget, with no health and safety related incidents.
IUS delivers a number of frameworks for Northern Powergrid including secondary SCADA. The Northern Powergrid Delivery Engineer, Jamie Braithwaite said, "I've found the IUS team to be professional, customer focused and ready to help support the SCADA project at all times. They manage their teams and the wider IUS resources very well. I look forward to continuing to work with the team into ED2. Great job!"