Asset Management & Services
Discover our comprehensive cable system services for high-voltage infrastructure, from emergency response and engineering support to spare parts management, preventive maintenance, and retrofit solutions designed to ensure reliability, efficiency, and long-term performance.
Brugg Cables delivers end-to-end asset management solutions for high and ultra-high voltage cable systems. From initial planning and construction to long-term operation and maintenance, we partner with transmission system operators, energy utilities, and industrial customers to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-optimized performance throughout your infrastructure’s lifecycle. Our proven expertise and global reach make us your trusted partner for keeping critical power systems in peak condition.
Emergency
Response
Solutions
When faults threaten your power supply, Brugg Cables provides fast, efficient emergency response anywhere in the world. Our experts guarantee quick fault diagnosis, immediate repairs, and provision of necessary spare parts to minimize downtime and restore power supply rapidly.
Engineering Services
Expert analysis and planning form the foundation of every successful cable system project. Our Engineering Services develop tailor-made solutions including installation plans, cable design modifications, loss calculations, and short-circuit analyses to guarantee problem-free operation throughout your system’s service life.
Spare Parts Services
Ensure continuous operation with our comprehensive spare parts management. We supply components, manage inventory control, and can assume full responsibility for your spare parts warehousing, reducing your costs while guaranteeing immediate availability when you need it most.
Preventive
Maintenance
Prevent costly failures before they happen with customized maintenance strategies. We create tailored plans based on Condition-Based, Reliability Centered, or Time-Based Maintenance approaches, optimizing your system’s performance and extending infrastructure life while reducing unexpected downtime.
Retrofit
Upgrade and modernize your cable systems to meet evolving regulations and performance requirements. Our retrofit solutions range from component replacements to complete turnkey projects, balancing affordability, technical feasibility, and compliance to extend your infrastructure’s life and enhance performance.
CASE STUDY
Challenging retrofit solution
for Genesis
The challenge
Owned by Genesis Energy Limited, Huntly Power Station is the largest thermal power station in New Zealand and has 4 gas / coal-fired generating units with an installed generation capacity of 950 MW. Leakages in several insulators of the oil-insulated outdoor sealing ends led to a replacement request by the customer. However, the existing HV oil-insulated cable system itself needed to remain in use due to cost-related factors.
Our solution
Brugg Cables developed a professional retrofit solution, which included engineering, logistics, tools and on-site installation. The spare parts used were adapted to the requirements of the existing oil-insulated cable system. The outage period for the Brugg Cables retrofit works had been only 9 days.
Genesis are very impressed with Brugg’s innovation, design, planning and implementation of this retrofit cable sealing end project. The solution avoided the need for a costly 220 kV oil-insulated cable replacement and a longer outage duration. Thanks to Brugg, this retrofit was successfully completed with minimal disruption to plant operations.
Case study
Cable diagnostics
The challenge
AVU Netz GmbH owns and operates electricity, natural gas and water networks in the Ennepe-Ruhr district. The line networks comprise 3,513 km of electricity, 991 km of gas and 1,249 km of water pipes. The assignment was to inspect an approx. 6.3-km-long XLPE cable route dating back to 2014, the utility company’s longest cable section within the grid. The section is connected by 5 joints with link boxes. The cable start consists of outdoor terminations on a switch panel and the cable end of dry GIS terminations.
Our solution
The diagnostics package included visual inspection of terminations and link boxes, sheath testing of all three phases, partial discharge measurements, and thermographic analysis. AVU Netz GmbH supported the work during the system shutdown. A suspected sheath fault was identified as an earth fault on one outdoor termination. Brugg Cables advised repairing fibre optic outlets and hood sleeves and replaced defective insulators found during inspection. Thermography showed no anomalies. Brugg Cables delivered a detailed report and supported repairs and ongoing system monitoring.
The diagnostics mix enabled us to determine the operating status of the cable system and identify any potential risks.
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