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P&C Testing & Commissioning

Project Management

Fiber Substation

Substation Engineering & Design

Substation Construction

Apparatus Testing

Substation Communication

P&C Testing & Commissioning

BIC Electric provides comprehensive protection and control testing and commissioning services for substation projects. Our team tests, verifies, and commissions protection and control systems to help ensure safe, reliable operation in accordance with customer standards, engineering requirements, and industry practices.

Our capabilities include primary and secondary injection testing, relay calibration, functional testing, relay settings verification, apparatus testing, Substation Automation System (SAS) commissioning, and end-to-end communications-aided protection testing for greenfield and brownfield substation projects.

Core Capabilities

  • Review customer engineering and design packages

  • Verify that equipment delivered to the construction site conforms to customer engineering and operating standards

  • Perform Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT)

  • Perform station functional and operational checks before energization

  • Complete and submit testing, commissioning, as-built, interconnection, energization, and closeout documentation

  • BIC Electric implements and tests relay settings for a wide range of protective devices and technologies, including SEL, ABB, GE, Siemens, and more,  electromechanical relays, solid-state and microprocessor relays.

  • BIC Electric installs, configures, tests, and commissions substation automation systems, including RTUs, RAS systems, HMIs, relay and substation data processors, and IEC 61850 schemes.

  • BIC Electric supports the installation, configuration, calibration, and end-to-end testing of communication-aided protection schemes using power line carrier and fiber-based systems, including microwave and carrier systems, wave traps, OPGW fiber between stations, tuning packages, radios, and related checkout activities.

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Substation Construction

BIC Electric provides substation construction services for greenfield and brownfield projects. Our construction teams support site preparation, excavation, grounding, equipment installation, cable systems, structural work, station service installation, and testing activities across voltage classes from 13.8 kV to 500 kV.

We focus on safe, reliable, and high-quality construction execution that aligns with customer standards, project schedules, commissioning requirements, and the critical role substations play in connecting generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

Core Capabilities

  • Excavation and trench work

  • Ground grid, ground rods, ground conductors, equipment bonding installation, and testing

  • Perimeter walls, fencing, conduits, cable tray, yard graveling, and rock work

  • Structural and mechanical installations, including towers, columns, station bus work up to 500 kV, rigid and flexible bus systems, steel fabrication, and support structures

  • Pulling, terminating, testing, and connecting substation and P&C cables and circuits

  • AC and DC station service installation

  • Removal, installation, and replacement of major and minor substation equipment up to 500 kV, including transformers, breakers, regulators, switches, disconnects, insulators, CTs, PTs, CVTs, wave traps, capacitor banks, battery systems, and camera systems.

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Fiber Substation

BIC Electric provides substation fiber optic services for multimode and single-mode fiber networks within transmission and distribution substations, including installation, routing, termination, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and integration with critical station systems.

Core Capabilities

  • Fiber optic cable installation, routing, and termination within energized and new substations

  • Fusion splicing and connectorization of single-mode and multi-mode fiber optic cables

  • Installation and configuration of fiber distribution panels, patch panels, and communication cabinets

  • OTDR testing, power meter testing, and certification of fiber optic systems

  • Integration with SCADA systems, protective relays, teleprotection equipment, and substation automation systems

  • Troubleshooting, repair, preventive maintenance, labeling, as-built drawings, and compliance with utility and high-voltage safety requirements

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Substation Communication

BIC Electric provides substationcommunication services that support reliable data exchange, system visibility, remote access, SCADA integration, automation, and protection functions. Our team installs, wires, configures, and tests communication circuits and equipment used to exchange telemetry and operational data with relays, meters, SAS, RTUs, HMIs, and other intelligent electronic devices.

We work with a variety of vendor platforms, including SEL, Novatech, and other substation communication and automation technologies.

Core Capabilities

  • Radiofrequency, Wi-Fi, wireless, and fiber communication

  • As-built documentation, interconnection and energization support, and technical project closeout

  • BIC Electric integrates communications hardware and software components used for internal and external substation networking, including routers, switches, modems, firewalls, GPS clocks, and related network equipment. 

    Substation Automation Systems (SAS) are essential for modern power networks, providing remote monitoring, control, automation, data acquisition, and real-time operational visibility. BIC Electric delivers end-to-end SAS solutions, from engineering and design through installation, configuration, testing, and commissioning. By integrating RTUs, HMIs, Substation Data Processors, protective relays, power quality meters, and smart grid technologies, we help utilities and industrial clients improve reliability, optimize performance, and support the evolving demands of the digital power grid.

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Project Management

BIC Electric provides project management services for substation construction, commissioning, engineering, project oversight, and emergency response. Our project management team serves as a bridge between client leadership, engineering teams, field construction crews, commissioning teams, contractors, and control-center stakeholders.

We coordinate the technical, operational, and administrative activities required to move substation projects from planning through construction, commissioning, interconnection, energization, and closeout.

Core Capabilities

  • Project coordination, meetings, communication, and stakeholder alignment

  • Scope-of-work review to support proper construction and commissioning

  • Construction and commissioning schedule development

  • Identification, assignment, sponsorship, and management of construction and commissioning resources

  • Coordination with P&C, substation, transmission, distribution, control-center, and SCADA teams

  • Preparation and coordination of switching orders, clearances, permits, contingencies, documentation, and technical and financial closeout

  • BIC Electric offers turn-key substation project support across design, engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, interconnection, and energization. Our end-to-end approach helps clients manage complex project requirements through a coordinated execution framework.

    Core Capabilities

    • Engineering design

    • Substation physical construction

    • P&C testing and commissioning

    • Construction coordination, commissioning coordination, interconnection support, and energization support

  • BIC Electric provides emergency response support for substation-related events requiring rapid technical, construction, testing, commissioning, or coordination support. Our team can mobilize to evaluate urgent issues, develop practical solutions, coordinate field activities, and help restore system reliability.

    Core Capabilities

    • Emergency response coordination

    • Review of customer drawings and manufacturer drawings

    • Customized technical solutions for emergency conditions

    • Removal, installation, or replacement of station equipment

    • Testing and commissioning of CTs, PTs, CVTs, breakers, protective relays, SCADA systems, and related equipment

    • Construction, commissioning, and re-energization support

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Substation Engineering & Design

BIC Electric provides substation engineering and design services for utility, municipal, industrial, and development clients. From low-voltage through extra-high-voltage applications, our engineering and design teams deliver safe, practical, constructible, and cost-effective solutions tailored to each project’s technical and operational requirements.

Our approach combines technical expertise with field experience, allowing us to design substations with constructability, reliability, maintainability, and long-term performance in mind.

Core Capabilities

  • Substation design from 13.8 kV to 500 kV

  • Physical substation design and protection and control design

  • Substation studies, lightning shielding studies, and illumination design

  • Drafting using MicroStation
    and AutoCAD Electrical

  • As-built drawing development

  • Our electrical engineers and designers support substation projects ranging from 13.8 kV to 500 kV. We provide physical design, protection and control design, engineering coordination, studies, drafting, and related technical support for investor-owned utilities, municipalities, developers, and other power-sector clients.

    By working closely with field construction and commissioning teams, BIC Electric helps reduce project risk, improve coordination, and support efficient execution from design through energization. We use advanced design and drafting platforms, including Bentley Systems and Autodesk tools, to support client-specific CAD and engineering requirements.

  • BIC Electric provides engineering management services to support design development, scope definition, specification preparation, procurement coordination, QA/QC review, and engineering package oversight. Our team helps ensure engineering activities are aligned with construction schedules, commissioning requirements, customer standards, and applicable regulations.

    • Define scope of work, project implementation documents, engineering philosophies, and project guidelines

    • Prepare bid packages for engineering, design, construction, and commissioning work

    • Define engineering and design schedules aligned with project execution timelines

    • Perform QA/QC reviews of engineering and design packages

    • Coordinate with customer supply chain teams to support timely procurement of materials and equipment

    • Coordinate relay settings, SCADA modeling, power system studies, facility ratings, reporting systems, and technical and financial closeout

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Apparatus Testing

BIC Electric performs field equipment primary testing to verify the performance, reliability, and safety of substation equipment before energization and operation. These services help identify installation deficiencies, confirm proper equipment function, validate design specifications, and support long-term system reliability during commissioning
and maintenance activities.

Core Capabilities

  • Power transformers general testing

  • 13 kV to 500 kV circuit breakers general testing

  • Мotor-operated switches

  • Capacitor banks

  • Battery systems

  • Ground grid systems

  • Voltage regulators

  • CTs, PTs, CVTs

  • Insulators

  • VLF diagnostic of medium and high voltage cable and other substation equipment.

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“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

– Aristotle

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