Vendor‑independent preventive maintenance and expert services for power distribution assets

Life-cycle services of electrical distribution equipment

Insta provides vendor independent life cycle services for electrical distribution equipment to power grid operators across Finland. The lifecycle services include preventive maintenance, servicing and expert services, ensuring reliability, safety and cost effectiveness throughout the entire equipment life cycle.

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Preventive maintenance and expert services for electrical distribution equipment

Insta’s life‑cycle services for electrical distribution equipment (400 V - 110 kV) combine preventive maintenance, servicing and expert services into a single, vendor‑independent partnership. Our service portfolio covers not only maintenance, repairs and installations, but also the engineering and design of new electrical distribution assets when required. Explore our service offering below.

Expert services

  • Electrical operation management services

  • Consulting services for power distribution systems

  • Preventive maintenance and condition monitoring

  • Preventive maintenance planning and maintenance optimization

  • Equipment audits and life‑cycle analyses

  • Periodic inspections

  • Protection relay configuration

  • Thermal imaging inspections

  • Power quality measurements

  • Earthing and grounding measurements

  • Battery capacity testing

  • Installation supervision and commissioning services

  • Power system analysis and calculations

Table showing lifecycle services for electrical distribution equipment up to 110 kV. Services include maintenance, repair, renewal and testing or commissioning for switchgear, substations, transformers, protection relays, battery systems and AC/DC drives.

Our maintenance services for electrical distribution equipment

  • Protection relay testing

  • Transformer maintenance and transformer oil analysis

  • Periodic maintenance services

  • Compensation equipment maintenance

  • Circuit breaker maintenance and live‑voltage vacuum cleaning

  • Medium‑voltage cable installations and terminations

  • Busbar installations and modifications

INSIGHT

Power distribution life cycle services – how to ensure cost efficient operations and future ready digitalization

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Vendor‑independent lifecycle partnership with certified management systems

Insta is a vendor‑independent life‑cycle partner providing maintenance and upkeep services for electrical distribution equipment from all major manufacturers. We serve power grid operators across Finland, with local presence in Tampere, Pori, Espoo and Muurame ensuring fast response times and reliable service availability.

Our operations are governed by certified ISO 9001 quality management, ISO 45001 occupational health and safety and ISO 14001 environmental management systems, and we have been assessed through the HSEQ supplier evaluation process. This provides a robust foundation for safe, high‑quality operations in critical infrastructure environments.

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Comprehensive services for power distribution from a trusted provider

Years of experience in electrical distribution life‑cycle services and long‑term partnerships are reflected in high customer satisfaction and trust. Working with Insta is straightforward and dependable – worth your trust. Through preventive maintenance and expert services, we help prevent unplanned equipment failures and outages while supporting our customers’ transition towards more energy‑efficient and data‑driven power distribution.

Our comprehensive and vendor‑independent service offering makes electrical distribution maintenance effortless: customers receive all maintenance and expert services from a single partner. As needs evolve, Insta also delivers substation extensions and modernizations as project deliveries, as well as expert engineering services such as power system analysis and electrical design.

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Insta and Aurubis Finland professionals working in an industrial production environment to ensure reliable and safe power distribution throughout its lifecycle.
REFERENCE

A seamless life‑cycle partnership in power distribution

Insta provides comprehensive, precise, and safe life cycle services for Aurubis Finland’s electrical distribution equipment. The partnership has improved the operational reliability of production equipment, the work stays on schedule, and the companies develop the systems further together.

– As a partner in electrical distribution maintenance, Insta offers a larger scale of services compared to other companies. It is easy to handle everything through one partner company. The operations have expanded to investments and automation and, for example, our weekly preventive maintenance is handled through Insta, says Aurubis Finland’s Maintenance Engineer and Electrical Work and Operation Supervisor Toni Ketonen.

– There have not been any hiccups with electric power distribution for quite some time now. This has been a considerable change from before. Preventive maintenance has eliminated equipment failures, and the absence of power outages and breakdowns has, naturally, led to the greatly improved operational reliability of production equipment.

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The role of life‑cycle services in ensuring reliability, safety and efficiency in power distribution

As electricity demand continues to grow, increasing emphasis is placed on the cost‑efficient operation, reliability and safety of power grids. Life‑cycle‑based services – including preventive maintenance, periodic maintenance and optimized renewals – help ensure uninterrupted operation of electrical distribution assets, minimize unplanned faults and outages, and enable the transition towards more energy‑efficient, data‑driven power distribution systems.

The life cycle of power distribution should be viewed as a holistic system. A power distribution network generates valuable data that can be utilized to manage network loading, optimize performance and support informed decision‑making. Equipment renewals and modernizations also act as enablers of digitalization, supporting the development of more intelligent and better‑integrated power distribution systems.

The reliability, safety and life‑cycle management of electrical equipment have a direct impact on productivity and operational efficiency. As a life‑cycle partner for power distribution, Insta ensures timely investment decisions and helps prevent uncontrolled equipment failures and unplanned outages by providing maintenance, upkeep and renewal services for electrical systems across industry, substations and properties.

iNetti – real-time monitoring for contract maintenance

The equipment maintenance system iNetti, aimed at our electricity distribution maintenance customers, offers an effortless and reliable way to take care of the life cycle of electricity distribution equipment. Read more about iNetti:

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Life-cycle services for electrical distribution equipment

Ensure the availability and production reliability of electrical distribution systems with us. Download the brochure here!

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Articles and references of power distribution lifecycle services

Case Aurubis Finland: A seamless life‑cycle partnership in power distribution
References-12.2.2021

Case Aurubis Finland: A seamless life‑cycle partnership in power distribution

Trust is at the core of the long term and well planned partnership between Aurubis Finland Oy and Insta. As Aurubis’s life cycle partner, Insta takes comprehensive responsibility for the entire power distribution system, ensuring precise execution, safe operations and predictable performance. As a result of the cooperation, the availability of production machinery has significantly improved. Maintenance is proactive, schedules are met, and systems are continuously developed together.

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Power distribution life cycle services – how to ensure cost efficient operations and future ready digitalization
Insights-24.9.2024

Power distribution life cycle services – how to ensure cost efficient operations and future ready digitalization

Electricity demand in Finland and globally is expected to grow significantly by 2035 if industry succeeds in implementing its ambitious emission reduction plans. According to estimates, industrial electricity consumption could increase by as much as 50 percent compared to current levels.

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Case Finnsementti: Improved operational reliability through main power distribution modernization
References-15.12.2021

Case Finnsementti: Improved operational reliability through main power distribution modernization

The pneumatic disconnectors, circuit breakers, protection relays, current transformers, and all auxiliary equipment with wiring in the dual busbar system of an old power plant were renewed in a large scale main power distribution modernization project at Finnsementti’s Parainen plant. Implemented without a single unplanned outage, the modernization significantly improved operational reliability, the plant has experienced no power outages caused by equipment failures since the modernization.

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