Power
Enabling Reliable, Resilient Infrastructure for a More Electrified Future
Reliable power is the backbone of modern life – and it’s being asked to do more than ever. As electrification accelerates across transportation, industry, and the built environment owners and operators are navigating aging infrastructure, grid constraints, evolving generation sources and rising expectations for resilience and reliability. Power systems must now deliver uninterrupted service while remaining safer, smarter and easier to maintain over their full lifecycle.
STV helps clients plan, design and deliver power infrastructure that supports how communities move, work and grow. Building on a long-standing foundation in substation design and traction power for transit systems, we bring a multidisciplinary perspective that connects high voltage systems, facilities, and operations – from early planning through design, construction and commissioning. Our teams understand how power systems perform in real world conditions, where continuity of service is critical and downtime is not an option.
Key Sub-markets
Charging Infrastructure, Depots, Yard Power & Grid Coordination
Data Centers, Labs, Industrial Facilities & Critical Public Facilities
Substations, Traction Power, Converter Facilities & Rail Electrification
Transmission, Substations, Grid Modernization & Utility Facilities
Our Capabilities in Power
STV’s power expertise spans the full project lifecycle and a wide range of markets, enabling clients to modernize infrastructure, expand capacity and prepare for future demand:
- Electric Transmission and Grid Infrastructure: Planning and design support for transmission systems, including substations and switchyards, supported by surveying, environmental studies, permitting and phased upgrade strategies that improve resilience while maintaining service.
- Distribution and Facility Power: Integrated power systems for industrial facilities, data centers and other mission critical environments – aligning electrical, civil, structural and facility requirements to support dependable, continuous operations.
- Traction Power and Electrified Mobility: Power infrastructure for rail and transit systems, drawing on deep experience in substations, converter facilities and electrified corridors to improve reliability while minimizing disruption to active operations.
- Charging and Electrification Readiness: Power planning and systems integration to support fleet and facility electrification, including transit depots and emerging charging infrastructure, with a focus on phasing, load management and operational constraints.
- Energy and Utility Facing Services: Dedicated energy services providing technical excellence across engineering, environmental and construction management services for utility, oil and gas and renewable energy clients.
- Construction and Program Support: Construction management, owner’s representative services, project controls and risk management to help complex power programs stay on schedule, on budget and aligned with operational needs. This includes software/simulation capabilities from ETAP, SKM PowerTools, PSS/E, ETSA, EMTP-RV and CYMCAP.
What Sets STV Apart
- Legacy Expertise in Complex Power Systems: A strong track record delivering substations and traction power systems for transit agencies and utilities, combined with expanding experience in facility and industrial power.
- Integrated, Multidisciplinary Teams: Electrical engineering informed by civil, structural, environmental and systems expertise – ensuring power infrastructure works seamlessly within broader facilities and networks.
- Operationally Focused Delivery: Designs shaped by an understanding of how systems are built, maintained and operated – especially in live environments where service continuity is critical.
- Trusted Partner Through Delivery: From early advisory services to construction oversight and commissioning, STV supports clients through every phase of complex, high risk power programs.
Key Services
- Advisory
- Broadband & Fiber Consulting
- Digital Advisory
- Economic Analysis
- Environmental Services
- Funding & Grant Advisory/Strategy
- Outreach & Engagement Strategies
- Physical & Cybersecurity Consulting
- Rail & Transit Systems Consulting
- Systems Safety & Security
- Zero Emission, Hydrogen & Energy Transitions
- Design & Engineering
- Communications & Wireless Systems
- Conditions Assessments
- Electrical Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Signals & Train Control
- Systems Engineering
- Systems Integration
- Traction Power & Overhead Contact Systems
- Utility Coordination
- Utility Design
- Planning & Program Development
- Corridor Studies/Strategy & Project Development
- Economic Analysis
- Environmental Analyses & NEPA
- Freight & Goods Movement
- Multi-Agency Coordination
- Permits & Entitlements
- Project Delivery
- Construction Management
- Owner's Representative
- Owner’s Project Management
- Program Management
- Project Controls
- Start-Up Testing & Commissioning
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