The Centre has extensive consulting experience and has provided consultancy services to some of Australia's largest manufacturing companies and electricity utilities.
Consulting
Expert advice and consulting
- Investigation and resolution of power quality problems
- Power quality monitoring for compliance with standards and regulations including harmonic and flicker studies
- Harmonic and flicker allocation and planning level studies
- Voltage sag studies
- Interpretation and implementation of power quality standards
- Routine power quality monitoring
- Power quality data compression, analysis and reporting
- General power monitoring
- Equipment power quality immunity testing to national and international standards
- Conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI)
- Distribution system reliability
- Renewable energy systems integration and power quality
- Agility
- AGL
- Alinta
- Aurora Energy
- Ausgrid (formerly EnergyAustralia)
- Australia Post
- BHP Billiton
- Blue Circle Southern Cement
- Bluescope Steel
- Boyne Smelters
- Bradken
- CHK Engineering
- Country Energy
- Endeavour Energy (formerly Integral Energy)
- Energex
- Ergon Energy
- esaa
- Genesis Energy (NZ)
- Incitec
- Metal Manufacturers
- NSW Fair Trading
- Powercor
- Powerlink
- Qenos
- Rheem Australia
- SA Power Networks (formerly ETSA)
- SP AusNet
- Standards Australia
- Telstra
- Transend Networks
- TransGrid
- Tycan Australia
- United Energy
- Western Power
Simple telephone/email enquiries will be dealt with free of charge. More extensive investigations will be charged at commercial rates. For more information, please contact:
Mr Sean Elphick
Australian Power Quality & Reliability Centre
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Tel: +61 (0)2 4221 4737
Email: pqrc@uow.edu.au