Renewables
At Downer, we have a team of professionals who are committed to maintaining our position as one of the leading service providers and innovators in the renewable energy market. Our design and consulting services are provided through CPG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Downer group of companies, while our team of Engineering experts complete the services required for the asset life-cycle by offering procurement, assembly, construction and commissioning of energy assets.
Downer is one of the largest and most experienced electrical service providers in renewable energy market and our team provides design, build and maintenance services for:
- Wind farms and wind turbine sites
- Landfill methane generation plants
- Sugar cane waste (Begasse) fired cogeneration plants
- Other Biomass fired cogeneration plants
Our key capabilities include:
Consulting
- Assessment of funding sources and incentive schemes
- Assessment of policy and legislative framework
- Asset management and maintenance planning
- Cost-benefit analysis of renewable energy technology options
- Engineering (civil and electrical) procurement and construction management
- Environmental impact assessment and planning approvals
- Site selection and assessment of transmission routes
- Technical and financial due diligence for owners and financiers
- Technology assessments and appraisals
- Wind resource assessment and consent applications.
Design Phase
- Civil foundation design
- Construction contract specifications for both turbines and wind turbines
- Design of balance of plant (including substations and transmission)
- Design of civil works, wind turbine support foundations, access roads, sundry buildings
- Earned value management (planned value, earned value and actual cost)
- Earth grid design and installation
- Earthquake studies and design
- Geotechnical investigations and foundation design
- MV powerline design
- Structural steel design
- Supply chain vetting, induction and monitoring
- Third party / utility co-ordination / management
- Transmission line design.
Environmental and Social Management services
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Planning and approvals liaison with local government and state authorities
- Public consultation with community and land owners
- Risk based assessments
- Sustainability reviews (green footprint).
Construction Phase
- Access pavements and surfacing
- Bridges and structures
- Canal construction and relining
- Capital works
- Civil construction
- Control structures, weirs etc
- Earthworks / stormwater and drainage
- Foundations
- Landscaping and finishing works
- Manufacture of structural steel
- MV/HV underground cable installation and termination
- Penstocks
- Project management
- Transmission line construction
- Utilities trenching and installation
- Wind farms, hydro and geothermal.
Special Services
- Constructability reviews
- Grid connection
- Selection of site for marshalling sub-station, design layout, voltages, connections
- Site layout access and survey
- Transmission studies & determining most economical cable route and optimal voltage
- Transport studies for delivering wind turbines and transformers to site
- Wind resources assessments in the design of masts.
Operations Maintenance
- Facility management
- Open space management
- Preventative maintenance
- Reactive maintenance
- Scheduled, routine and cyclic maintenance.
Asset Management
- Asset condition and performance assessment monitoring
- Asset data collection analysis
- Forward works programming
- Maintenance invention strategies.