ElectraGlobe provides end-to-end engineering for utility-scale solar farms and battery energy storage systems across Australia and New Zealand. We work with developers, asset owners and EPC contractors, managing every phase from feasibility and concept design through to grid connection and commercial operation.
Our engineers work across the NEM's technical and regulatory requirements every day, which is what gives a project its best chance of connecting on time and on budget.
Utility-scale solar farm engineering covers everything technical required to develop, design, connect and build a large-scale solar or hybrid project.
The difference from commercial installations is not just size. A utility-scale project has to satisfy AEMO and DNSP/TNSP requirements that a rooftop system never encounters.
Getting these right is usually what separates a project that energises on schedule from one that spends a year in the connection queue.
| Project phase | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| Feasibility and site assessment | Site screening, constraints analysis, indicative yield and grid connection pre-assessment |
| Concept and detailed design | DC, LV, MV and HV systems from concept through to IFC, including layout optimisation and PVsyst energy yield modelling |
| Grid connection | DNSP and TNSP applications, technical responses and negotiation through to connection agreement |
| AEMO GPS | Generator Performance Standards negotiation, dynamic modelling and compliance testing |
| Power system studies | Steady-state, dynamic and power quality analysis |
| Substation and switchyard | Primary and secondary design, protection and control |
| Construction and commissioning | Site engineering support, hold points, testing and energisation |
| Owner's engineering | Design review, technical due diligence and independent assurance |
We take on the full scope or step in at a single phase, depending on what your internal team already covers.
Most of our work falls into three shapes, and each carries a different engineering risk.
| Asset type | Typical scale | Where the engineering effort concentrates |
|---|---|---|
| Utility-scale solar | 5 MW to 100+ MW | Layout optimisation, tracker versus fixed-tilt trade-offs, PVsyst yield modelling and string configuration |
| Standalone BESS | Grid-scale, front-of-meter | System sizing and dispatch strategy, thermal management, protection coordination and GPS registration |
| Hybrid solar + BESS | Co-located, up to 430 MW | Shared connection point design, control philosophy and GPS compliance across both assets |
Co-located projects are where most connection programmes slip. Two generating systems behind one connection point means one set of performance standards covering both, and the modelling has to hold up under that.
We partner with renewable energy developers, infrastructure investors, EPC contractors and asset owners who need an engineering partner with the technical depth to carry a complex utility-scale project from start to finish.
If you have a project at any stage, from a site under option to a connection application already in review, we can tell you quickly where the real risks sit.