Our highly accredited team specializes in testing the conformity of electrical energy systems, focusing on metering and protection systems.
We operate across medium to very high voltage installations for both energy production and consumption. Our expertise encompasses a wide range of metrological tests and validations, from standard regulatory work to more recent energy transition associated installations like electric vehicle charging stations or distributed energy production facilities. Our mission is to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and safety of electrical energy systems, providing top-tier service and support to our clients.
Main Activities:
Conformity Testing: Conducting comprehensive tests to ensure the conformity of electrical energy systems, focusing on metering and protection systems.
Metrological Tests and Validations: Performing necessary metrological tests and validations on various installations to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
Type 1 Verification*: new installations or modifications in existing medium voltage (MV) or high voltage (HV) metering systems greater than 1 MVA.
Type 2 Verification*: periodic verifications in existing medium voltage (MV) or high voltage (HV) metering systems greater than 1 MVA.
Type 3 Verification*: periodic verifications in existing medium voltage (MV) or high voltage (HV) metering systems less than 1 MVA.
Primary Tests on Electrical Protection Systems: Conducting primary tests on electrical protection systems to verify their functionality and reliability.
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Testing and validating the newest electric vehicle charging stations to ensure they meet all necessary standards.
Our dedicated team is committed to ensuring the highest quality control of electrical equipment from inception to installation.
We provide comprehensive support in preparing technical specifications, conducting thorough product qualifications and technical analyses, overseeing the manufacturing process, and performing meticulous factory tests and inspections. Our mission is to guarantee that our clients receive top-notch quality control over new equipment with minimal effort, ensuring reliability and excellence in every project.
Main Activities:
Preparation of Technical Specifications: Crafting detailed and precise technical specifications to ensure equipment meets all necessary standards and requirements.
Product Qualification and Technical Analysis: Conducting rigorous qualification processes and technical analyses to verify the performance and reliability of electrical equipment.
Manufacturing Oversight: Monitoring and following up on the manufacturing process to ensure adherence to quality standards and specifications.
Factory Test Inspections: Performing thorough inspections of factory tests to validate the functionality and safety of the equipment.
Technical Inspections: Carrying out detailed technical inspections to ensure compliance with industry standards and client requirements.
Quality Control Assurance: Implementing robust quality control measures and providing expert support and guidance to clients throughout the entire process, to guarantee that the equipment delivered to clients is of the highest quality.
Our specialized team operates in the area of equipment testing related to smart grids, compliance of metering equipment, and protection and automation systems equipment.
The SMARTLAB is a smartgrid integration facility that serves as a test center for technology demonstration and validation. This infrastructure is at the forefront of new technologies for the energy systems of the future. It consists of four different areas: Digital Grids, Energy Metering, Substation Automation Systems, and Storage & Mobility.
Main activities:
Equipment Qualification: Laboratory compliance tests to verify customer specification compliance. Having an infrastructure that serves as a test laboratory equipped with high technology that emulates a real electrical grid, with up to 4 low voltage grids, with 400 smart metering devices, a unique environment where real equipment can be tested in terms of functionality, performance, and interoperability among them, promoting the implementation of smart grid equipment, all within a scenario that closely mirrors real-life conditions, such as noise analysis on the voltage wave and communication signal attenuation.
Interoperability Tests: Laboratory tests to verify the interoperability and integration of various systems and digital platforms, such as smart metering equipment, protection and automation systems in substations, data concentrators, head-end systems, electric vehicle charging stations, electrical energy storage systems, and photovoltaic production.
Metrological Tests: Accredited tests to verify the metrological compliance of measuring equipment. In this context, we have been recognized since 2013 by the Portuguese Institute for Quality (IPQ) as a metrological verification body (OVM) for carrying out the operations of First Verification and Periodic Verification of Electric Energy Meters.
Calibration of low voltage equipment: We are accredited to perform calibrations in power, energy, voltage, current, frequency, phase angle, and power factor.
Real-time simulations: The SmartLab is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment that allows real-time simulation with Hardware-in-the-loop technology of events related to electrical energy networks and equipment.
