Utilities

Dependable Modernization of Utilities & Infrastructure

Efficient Engineering You Can Depend On

Modernizing infrastructure to withstand aging, storms, and evolving grid demands.

Halker helps utilities modernize aging infrastructure and deliver safe, dependable power. Our multidisciplinary team (electrical, structural, civil, SCADA) designs and upgrades transmission, distribution, and substation assets across greenfield and brownfield projects. We focus on operability and resilience: protection & control, smart-grid automation, FLISR, voltage regulation, microgrids, and battery storage integration. The result is fit-for-purpose designs that improve reliability, reduce outages, and meet evolving regulatory and environmental requirements.

Key Capabilities

We combine proven utility engineering with practical field insight. Whether you’re upgrading assets or adding capacity, Halker delivers designs, studies, and controls that enhance safety, reliability, and lifecycle value, without unnecessary complexity.

Grid Design & Transmission Engineering

Overhead/underground routing, structures, conductor sizing, clearances, thermal rating, and reliability-driven rebuilds.

Modernization & Resiliency

Strengthening grid performance, asset hardening, storm/outage mitigation, microgrids, DER and BESS integration.

Permitting & Compliance Support

Permitting, environmental coordination, and documentation that keeps projects moving and audit-ready.

SCADA & Automation

Remote monitoring, FLISR/self-healing schemes, relay settings/coordination, and control logic that supports safe operations.

Why Utilities Clients Trust Halker

Modernization Without Disruption

Phased, brownfield-friendly designs and outage coordination that keep customers online while assets are upgraded.

Operator-Centered Design

SCADA visibility, clear documentation, maintainability, and safety baked into every decision so the field can work faster and safer.

Transparency & Accountability

Clear communication and multi-discipline expertise to hit schedules and budgets without over-engineering.

Proven Success in Utilities Projects

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High Voltage Support of Solar Interconnects

As renewable generation continues to expand across Colorado and the greater U.S. power grid, utility owners and developers face complex

High-voltage transmission structures and substation equipment under overcast skies, illustrating Halker’s expertise in supporting city-operated distributed energy resource (DER) adoption and modern electric infrastructure planning.

City-Operated General Electric DER Adoption

A city-operated utility launched a Smart Grid Test Bed pilot program across three metropolitan areas to better understand how Distributed

Detailed single-line electrical diagram of a 138kV to 25kV, 50MVA substation layout showing transformers, breakers, and high-voltage equipment, highlighting Halker’s power engineering expertise in substation design, grid reliability, and high-voltage system integration.

138kV to 25kV 50MVA Substation

To serve as the Owner’s Advisor on behalf of our client for a new substation project. This new substation would

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