Wink Engineering, LLC

Services: Electric Power Transmission and Distribution

Wink Engineering, LLC provides the full range of electrical engineering services for electric utility customers as well as industrial plants.

  • Permitting
  • Conceptual design / front-end engineering / cost-benefit analysis
  • Boundary and topographic surveys, route-of-line surveys
  • Design engineering
    • Transmission Lines
    • Substations
    • Distribution Lines
    • Switching Stations
    • Electrical System analyses for industrial plants. Services include mapping, preparation of computer models, load flow / voltage drop studies, fault current studies, system coordination analysis
  • Construction documents, equipment specifications, bid packages, and procurement services
  • Overall project management, cost estimating, scheduling, reporting and documentation
  • Onsite construction administration services by experienced field personnel, review of contractor pay requests

The Wink Advantage

  • State-of-the-art, proven successful R-O-W acquisition / land management services through Willbros Engineers US
  • Comprehensive EPC services through alliances with Willbros affiliates and other constructors
  • In-house design engineers and project managers with extensive field experience in electric power transmission and distribution facilities

Representative Project Experience

System-wide Transmission and Distribution Engineering for Entergy

Since January 1995, Wink has had a master services contract with Entergy Services, Inc. to provide comprehensive transmission, distribution, and substation design engineering services throughout the four-state Entergy System. We performed detailed design in all disciplines, project management and reporting, for more than 200 projects, including the following in the New Orleans area:

  • Highway 167 Relocation
  • South Shore Harbor Distribution Modifications
  • Patterson Road Feeder
  • Decatur St. – Port St. (New Orleans) 115kV Line
  • Raise Pontchartrain – Little Gypsy 230KV Line
  • Kaiser-Packenham (Chalmette) 115kV Line
  • Gulf Outlet Substation
  • Relocate 230kV D/C Line for Jazzland
  • Rebuild Formosa-Placid 230kV Line
  • Gulf Outlet Feeders

Entergy Mississippi, Inc.

  • Greenwood 115kV Substation
  • Brickyard 115kV Substation
  • Modify Baxter Wilson 500 kV Substation

Entergy Arkansas, Inc.

  • Fordyce Orient 115kV Switching Station
  • Stuttgart Industrial115/13.8kV Substation

Entergy Louisiana, Inc.

  • Hooker 230 kV Substation
  • Waterford 230 kV Substation
  • Conroe Bulk 138 kV Substation

Entergy Texas, Inc.

  • Alden 138 kV Substation
  • Lewis Creek 138 kV Substation
  • Goslin 138 kV Substation

Electrical Power Engineering – Industrial Plants

  • New 230kV Substation – Louisiana chemical plant
  • Cogeneration Facility Feasibility Study – Southeastern U.S. Refinery
  • Substation Additions: new 13.2kV feeder w/primary and secondary substation additions – Food processing facility
  • New 2500KVA, 13.8kV to 480V/277V Substation – petrochemical plant
  • Upgrade 13.8kV overhead distribution and feeder system – chemical plant
  • Expansion of 35kV substation to accommodate new process units in LA refinery
  • New, radial-fed substations (13.8kV/4.16kV; 5000KVA; 13.8kV/480V; 2000 KVA – LA refinery
  • Eight (8) radial-fed 13.8kV primary to 4.16kV, 2.4kV and 480V secondary systems – LA refinery