ABS Consulting, Electrical Utilities

Electrical Utilities

Public safety and environmental concerns require operators of power producing facilities (fossil, nuclear power plants and research reactors) and power distribution companies to seek practical answers to challenging issues. The ABS Consulting staff endeavors to provide safety, engineering and risk management services to the power industry. Its experts developed much of the risk technology that has become the industry standard.

ABS Consulting provides the best possible support to plant owners and operators to manage the challenges of operational risks and regulatory requirements, natural catastrophes and man-made hazards.

Power Generation
- Risk Management Services
  
  Public safety and environmental concerns require operators of nuclear plants and research reactors to seek manageable answers to challenging questions. ABS Consulting provides the following services:
  
  - Enterprise Risk Management
  - Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA)
  - Extreme Event Analysis
  - Security Risk Assessment
  - Operations and Maintenance Support
- Enterprise Risk Management Products and Services
  
  - Programmatic risk assessment (PgRA) of program and major project cost and scheduling issues
  - Risk-Informed Asset Management (RIAM) for individual generating units or fleets of power stations
  - Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Engineering for generating units and associated systems and components
- Extreme Event Analysis Products and Services
  
  - Seismic and Wind Engineering Support
  - Fire Risk Analysis, including Risk-Informed Fire Risk Management Program Development and Analysis
  - Advanced Engineering Evaluations
- Security Risk Assessment Products and Services
  
  - Aircraft Impact Assessment
  - Vehicle Intrusion Repulsion and Barrier Design
  - Blast Evaluation Criteria
  - MIDAS-AT Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Sabotage Modeling
- Nuclear Operations Support Products and Services
  
  - Cost-effective Solutions
  - RAM Engineering and Maintenance Program Support
  - RIAM Asset Management Support
  - Piping and Pressure Vessel Integrity Analyses
  - Fluid Hydraulics and Dynamics Analyses
  - Risk-Informed Applications
  - ASME Section XI Audits
  - Decommissioning Studies
  - Root Cause Analysis
- Emergency Planning Support
  
  - MIDAS - The Premier Tool for Emergency Planning
  - Emergency Plan Development
  - Severe Accident Management Alternative (SAMA) Issue Analysis and Support
  - Safety Analysis Reports
  - Safety Case Studies
- Specialty Structural and Seismic Engineering
  
  - Seismic analysis of buildings, equipment and components
  - Soil Structure Interaction/Response Spectra Generation
  - SQUG/STERI Support
  - Containment Overpressure Analysis
  - Retrofit Analysis/Design
  - Extreme Loads (Tornado, Heavy Load Drop, Blast)
  - Spent Fuel Pool Analysis, Degradation and Leakage Mitigation
  - Structural Degradation Assessments
Power Distribution
- Natural Hazard Vulnerability Assessments
  
  Security Vulnerability Assessments
  
  Asset Integrity Management
  
  Risk Based Inspection
Insurance Loss Assessments
- Insurance Requirements: Property, Business Interruption, Liability
  
  - Deductibles and Limits
  
  Earthquake, Hurricane, Ice, Flood and Operational Loss Models
  
  - Power Plants, Dams, Substations
  - Buildings and Facilities, Submarine Cables
  
  Transmission & Distribution Systems
  
  - Hurricane, Windstorm and Ice Exposures
  
  Self Insurance Funding and Accrual Requirements
  
  Reserve Fund Dynamic Financial Analysis
  
  Regulatory and Rate Support
- For More Information, contact:
  
  Steven Harris
  Vice President
  1-510-817-3105 | spharris@absconsulting.com

For more information, contact:

Thomas Roche
Vice President
1-714-734-4242 | troche@absconsulting.com