Your substations, integrated and commissioned by someone who has done it for 25 years.
Limelight Projects engineers, integrates and commissions SCADA systems for electrical networks and substations. MicroSCADA, IEC 61850 and multi-vendor protection relays, for electrical contractors, EPC integrators and plant owners across South Africa.
Trusted on live plants
MicroSCADA systems designed, extended and commissioned on industrial plants and utility networks, from single substations to plant-wide systems, for plant owners and the EPC integrators who build them.
- Sasol
- Eskom
- City councils
- Proconics
- Iyanda Power Technologies
What we do
New SCADA projects
Detailed design, configuration, factory acceptance testing and site commissioning for substation and RTU / SCADA panel projects.
System connections
MicroSCADA linked to DCS and other control systems such as Emerson DeltaV and Honeywell, so operators see one picture of the plant.
Upgrades and migrations
Extending and upgrading existing systems with new substations, and moving legacy systems onto current platforms.
Legacy LON support
Keeping older ABB LON bus networks running while the plant plans its next step.
Support and maintenance
Planned site support, fault finding and changes on running systems.
Training
MicroSCADA courses for engineers and operators, from someone certified by ABB Finland to present them.
Limelight SCT
A Windows System Configuration Tool for IEC 61850 substation projects, built at the panel on real multi-vendor jobs. Engineer the SCD, validate it, simulate the whole substation, then commission and prove it, in one tool.
- Multi-vendor SCL engineering with no vendor lock-in
- A virtual substation: every IED in the SCD served live
- Commissioning checks with printable evidence reports
- Fully offline licensing for air-gapped OT networks
Found on real projects
A relay clock running six years out.
An SCD missing 416 GOOSE subscriptions across four bays.
Both found by Limelight SCT on real projects.
Why Limelight Projects
One accountable engineer
You deal directly with Derek Ward, who designs, configures and commissions the system himself. Extra engineers are brought in when a project needs them, under the same standards.
Two decades inside ABB
Over 20 years at ABB South Africa, including almost twelve as Section Head for MicroSCADA, before founding Limelight Projects in 2020.
Multi-vendor by habit
SEL, GE, ABB and Beckwith devices integrated into single SCADA systems, over IEC 61850 and the classic SCADA protocols.
Software when the site needs it
When a standard product can't solve a site problem, we write the tool that does, like the watchdog that brings GE relay analogue reports online in MicroSCADA automatically.
Planning a substation or SCADA project?
Tell us about the plant, the devices and the timeline, and we'll come back to you with how we can help.