Fresno, California

Arc Flash Study in Fresno

Forty minutes up Highway 99 from our office. Fresno County work gets the same engineer on site who builds the model.

Fresno is the largest industrial base in the Central Valley and the one with the widest range of electrical systems — from century-old downtown service equipment to new distribution centers and clean energy projects on the west side.

Who we work with in Fresno County

Utility service upgrades change your numbers

Fresno has seen substantial service upgrades as facilities expand and electrify. When the utility raises available fault current at your service entrance, two things change: equipment that was correctly rated may no longer be, and incident energy at your gear moves. Both are reasons to re-run a study that was accurate when it was written.

NEC Article 110.24

Service equipment at other than dwelling units must be field marked with the maximum available fault current and the date of the calculation — and that marking must be verified or recalculated when modifications affect it.

New construction in Fresno

Where Division 26 05 73 appears in your specifications, both a coordination study and an arc flash study are required, normally before equipment is ordered. The electrical inspector can withhold the Certificate of Occupancy until labels are installed, so this belongs on the schedule early rather than in the punch list.

What every study includes

Three things to check before you hire anyone

Ask whether a licensed P.E. Electrical Engineer seals the final report. Ask whether every panel appears in the coordination study time current curve plots, or only the main gear. And ask who performs the field data collection — missing conductor lengths and unrecorded breaker settings go straight into the incident energy result.

We send a P.E. Electrical Engineer to collect the data, with an electrician as support to open panel covers. The engineer who has to defend the model gathers its inputs.

Talk to the engineer who does the work

No sales team. You speak directly with a California licensed Professional Engineer about your equipment, your schedule, and what the study will actually cost.