Division 01 · Electrical engineering

Power beyond the switch

Downtime is no longer an inconvenience — it is a liability. TelKo takes electrical projects from schematic to fully energised reality: design, procurement, installation and commissioning under a single point of accountability, across Srinagar and Jammu & Kashmir.

Scope: HV · MV · LV
Control: PLC · SCADA · BMS
Codes: IS · IEC · NFPA
Delivery: Design → Build → Commission

Capabilities

Six practices under one roof

By integrating design, procurement, installation and commissioning into one contract, we eliminate the friction between vendors — and the "it's not my department" excuses that come with it.

Substations

Full-scale HV/MV/LV substation development from the ground up — civil coordination, transformer erection, switchgear, protection relays, earthing grids and statutory approvals.

Automation

Custom PLC programming and SCADA systems built for the smart factories of tomorrow — from single-panel retrofits to plant-wide supervisory control.

Power quality

Advanced diagnostics that find harmonics, voltage sags and inefficiencies before they become failures — with infrared thermography scans on live panels.

Renewables

Solar, wind and battery storage blended cleanly into your existing grid — sizing, protection coordination and net-metering compliance handled end to end.

Backup power

High-capacity UPS and generator installations with changeover schemes engineered so critical loads never see the outage. Fire-pump panels built to NFPA 20 practice, with soft-start drives where star-delta simply isn't good enough.

Maintenance

Thermography, torque audits, relay testing and oil condition monitoring — so your infrastructure lives its longest, safest life.

Engineering note

Why we specify soft starters on fire pumps

On large fire-pump installations we specify soft starters with internal bypass contactors over star-delta starting. The reasons are mechanical and regulatory in equal measure: lower mechanical stress on the pump shaft and coupling, a cleaner inrush profile that the upstream protection can actually live with, and alarm-only overload behaviour consistent with NFPA 20 practice — because a fire pump that trips on overload is a fire pump that is not pumping.

It costs marginally more at procurement. It costs considerably less across the life of the asset. Ask us to walk you through it during your design review.

Standards we work to

IS (Bureau of Indian Standards) · IEC international electrotechnical standards · NFPA fire protection codes, including NFPA 20 for stationary fire pumps. Drawings and test records are prepared to match.

Single-line and layout drawings issued before procurement, not after installation.
Protection coordination study so relays discriminate instead of tripping the whole board.
Earthing design calculated for the actual soil resistivity on your site.
Commissioning records — insulation resistance, relay injection, torque values, thermography baseline.
As-built documentation handed over in a form your maintenance team can use.

Typical engagements

What clients usually ask us for

Engagement	Typical scope	Suited to
New substation	Load study, single-line design, transformer and switchgear supply, erection, protection, earthing, statutory liaison, commissioning	Manufacturing plants, hospitals, hotels, campuses
Automation retrofit	PLC panel design and programming, SCADA screens, instrumentation, integration with existing plant	Filtration plants, process lines, pumping stations
Power quality audit	Harmonic and sag logging, thermography on live panels, corrective specification and remediation	Sites with unexplained trips, failures or high energy bills
Backup power scheme	Load segregation, UPS and DG sizing, changeover design, fire-pump panels to NFPA 20	Critical-load facilities that cannot tolerate an outage
Solar integration	Sizing, protection coordination, net-metering compliance, integration with existing distribution	Institutions reducing grid dependence and tariff exposure
Annual maintenance	Scheduled thermography, torque audits, relay testing, transformer oil condition monitoring	Any installed electrical asset, ours or inherited

Questions

Electrical, answered straight

Do you work as a contractor, a consultant, or both?

Both, and deliberately so. We will produce the design and hand it to another contractor if that is what your procurement requires. More often clients ask us to carry the whole scope — design, supply, installation and commissioning — because that is where the accountability stops moving between parties.

Can you work on an energised site without shutting us down?

In most cases yes. We sequence work around your operating hours, use temporary supplies and changeover schemes where the load cannot be interrupted, and agree every planned shutdown in writing before it happens. Thermography and power quality logging are carried out live.

What do you hand over at the end of a project?

As-built single-line and layout drawings, equipment datasheets and warranty documents, insulation resistance and relay test records, torque audit values, earth resistance readings and a thermography baseline. The completion report is written so an auditor or a future contractor can read it.

Do you cover the whole of Jammu & Kashmir?

Yes. Srinagar is our base and our crews travel to sites across the Kashmir and Jammu divisions and into Ladakh. Remote and high-altitude sites are quoted with the additional logistics stated openly rather than absorbed and rushed.

Can electrical work be combined with CCTV or networking in one contract?

That is the usual arrangement. Surveillance, access control and industrial networking are TelKo divisions in their own right, so cable routes, containment, power provisions and commissioning are coordinated between them from the design stage instead of being retrofitted around each other on site.

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