Expertise & consulting services

The company’s skills, industry experience, cutting-edge innovations and facilities constitute a valuable resource.
SuperGrid Institute offers a complete range of services

Identifying technical challenges and optimising solutions

SuperGrid Institute employs its skills, industry experience, innovative capacity, and high-end facilities to identifying and resolving technical challenges, optimising solutions and offering services that include:

  • conducting dedicated grid studies – including technical and economic assessment studies – for HVDC systems, MVDC systems, and connection grids for offshore wind farms and photovoltaic farms, amongst others

  • performing trouble shooting on clients’ equipment and resolving technical challenges, drawing on the company’s full range of expertise, tools and test platforms

  • (co)developing, designing, validating/improving, and performance-testing new products, such as high and medium voltage equipment, converters, medium frequency and solid-state transformers, cable junctions and accessories.

You can count on us to

Provide comprehensive studies of the issues you face in your projects and to identify your technical needs in a rigorous and constructive manner.

Dedicate our team of experts to your projects, delivering the results you expect in the timeframe you require.

Act pragmatically and proactively to identify areas for improvement, helping you optimise your solutions.

Deploy our full range of expertise and tools, including our in-house test platforms, to resolve your technical challenges.

SuperGrid Institute dedicate its team of experts to your projects, delivering the results you expect, in the timeframe you require.
Act pragmatically and proactively to identify areas for improvement, helping you optimise your solutions.
The Power electronics & converters research programme at SuperGrid Institute focuses on developing power electronics technologies that meet the requirements of the future DC grid.

Some illustrations of our technical consulting services

Project advisory services

Designing an HVDC point-to-point connections whilst anticipating the possibility of a future extension in a meshed HVDC grid.

Using techno-economic analysis software to define optimised electrical architecture for:

  • HVDC links

  • offshore wind farm electrical systems

  • MVDC grids.

Consulting services

Drawing on our innovative solutions to ensure the reliability and operability of AC and DC grids, in particular:

  • enhancing AC grid stability through the use of HVDC links

  • developing innovative HVDC grid control and protection strategies.

HV/MV grid studies

Contributing to the design of HVDC and offshore wind farms, including:

  • design fundamentals

  • grid connection

  • grid impact

  • grid code compliance

  • detailed design

  • equipment specification

Equipment

  • (co-)development, design validation and/or performance testing for new products (HV/MV equipment, converters, medium frequency transformer & solid state transformers, cable junctions & accessories, etc.) before manufacturing

  • trouble shooting of dielectric failures in HV equipment

  • etc.

Our training offer

With our unique research environment, SuperGrid Institute acts as an incubator for innovation at the forefront of power grid technologies.

As the only privately run research centre in this domain in France, we provide thorough and personalised training, drawing on a wide array of resources and expertise, to offer courses that focus on the subjects most relevant to your company’s activities.

Training offer at SuperGrid Institute