Relevant Experience

Since its inception in 1995, YTP Group and its joint ventures have developed a wealth of experience in the construction, supervision, and ongoing maintenance of T&D infrastructure. Within the States of Virginia YTP Group operates 4 district offices which are charged with the responsibility of customer connections, grid extensions, mapping, ongoing maintenance, and customer service.Some of our relevant capabilities are below:

Equipment Commissioning

YTP GROUP offers complete commissioning services, which encompass design of procedures to the coordination, supervision and undertaking of all related activities. Our personnel have experience in the commissioning of a wide range of equipment and systems, from a single compressor, to large generators and advanced distributed control systems.

YTP GROUP also provides commissioning services such as scheduling, coordinating and overall management of all activities when placing transmission or distribution equipment into service. This includes preparation of procedures for acceptance tests of electrical apparatus, operational checks of control and protection systems, and switching orders to place equipment into service. commissioning staff will ensure compliance with specifications, environmental and design standards, and the efficient integration of new equipment with the customer’s existing system, to ensure the proper implementation of a project.

Electrical Metering

YTP Group through its Customer Metering Department has been providing quality metering solutions for its customers for 15 years. Our highly trained staff are experts in all areas of metering; from servicing single phase residential energy meters to designing and building the most sophisticated metering solutions to meet ever increasing industrial and power quality demands. We utilize the most advanced technology in inspection, measuring and testing apparatus in order to verify the high accuracy required for electricity metering.

Metering Products:

• New and reconditioned electricity meters
• Prepayment Electricity Meters
• Electronic data recorders and advanced power quality metering
• Color coded metering cable
• Weather proof metal and polyethylene metering cabinets (brackets available for pole mounting)
• Test switches and test blocks
• Transformer rated single phase meter sockets
• Isolation relays Potential indicating lights (with or without brackets)
• Low and high voltage instrument transformers
• High voltage instrument transformer brackets (for pole mounting)
• Various adaptors (i.e.: Service Limiter, "A"-base to socket)
• Electricity meter installer/removers

Metering Services:

• Servicing, calibrating, programming, and sealing of electricity meters and data recorders.
• Compliance sampling of your single phase and poly-phase energy meters
• Analysis of defective meters
• Acceptance testing of electricity meters, electronic recorders, and instrument transformers
• Refurbishing and testing of instrument transformers
• Designing, building, and installing high and low voltage transformer type metering
• Pre-wiring metering cabinets to your exact specifications.
• Ad-Hoc testing using the latest in circuit analyzing equipment
• Pre-certification testing on your single position and multi-position test boards
• Technical support and training

Project Management

Our staff has considerable experience in project management and technical assistance. For all our projects we use effective project management protocols including the establishment of clear guidelines, policies and procedures. Determining the client’s requirements and needs serves as the initial focus point for every successful project. We establish clear and realistic milestones for the completion of activities and develop schedules that when used in conjunction with the appropriate action plans, financial and progress reports, provide the groundwork to allow a project to succeed.

We combine these fundamentals with senior management guidance and well-qualified Project team leaders to ensure that all of our projects are completed to the client’s satisfaction. We are constantly updating these procedures and principles to ensure the success of our projects throughout the world.

Some of the services provided include the following:

• Investigate site conditions.
• Prepare project schedule and cost estimate.
• Co-ordinate designs of all engineering disciplines -structure, foundation, electrical and mechanical.
• Co-ordinate procurement of materials.
• Expedite material delivery.
• Conduct pre-construction meetings with contractor to clarify designs.
• Maintain field office and conduct regular inspections during construction to ensure conformance of designs.
• Co-ordinate designs with contractors whenever required.
• Monitor project progress and expenditure.
• Perform final inspection of transmission line for acceptance.
• Extensive Consulting Services