Tailored
electrotechnical
expertise

Volt Expertise — an independent HV/LV electrical expertise firm. Field measurements, testing, diagnostics and disturbance investigation, across the national territory and for export.

HV power transformer under a stormy sky — Volt Expertise
Services

What we do

The precision of measurement and hands-on field expertise, serving the reliability and safety of your HV and LV electrical installations.

Expertise & Diagnostics

Pragmatic field expertise to identify, measure and correct anomalies on your HV/LV networks.

  • Electrical disturbance investigation
  • Incident diagnostics & root-cause analysis
  • Power transformers & rotating machines
  • MV cables — diagnostics & measurements
  • Stray currents & agricultural issues
  • Nuisance tripping & overheating
On-site measurements

Instrumented field measurement campaigns — the foundation of reliable results and autonomous interventions.

  • Insulation & dielectric HV and LV
  • Power quality & harmonics
  • Active & reactive power
  • Earthing & soil resistivity
  • Micro-ohmmeter & continuity
  • Infrared thermography
  • Leakage currents
Testing & Programming

Testing and commissioning of protection chains and network equipment, HV/LV.

  • HV protection relay testing
  • LV protections
  • Primary & secondary injection
  • Capacitor banks
  • Settings & protection parameterisation
  • Pre-energisation checks
Works supervision (MOE)

Rigorous support from specification through to on-site execution checks.

  • Technical specifications & bills of quantities
  • Pre-sizing (transformers, MV switchgear, busbars)
  • Planning & site supervision
  • Technical coordination meetings
  • FAT / SAT acceptance support
  • Follow-up to energisation
Advisory & Compliance

Asset assessment and command of regulatory constraints to secure your investments.

  • Performance & safety audits
  • Technical Due Diligence
  • HV / LV regulatory compliance
  • Operating & lockout procedures
  • Export & offshore support (IEEE, ANSI, NEC)
Studies — in partnership

Engineering and numerical simulation studies, delivered in partnership with LDHT Engineering.

  • Load flow & power balance
  • Short-circuit (Icc) & protection scheme
  • Selectivity & arc flash
  • Earthing — step & touch voltages
  • Harmonics & power quality
  • ETAP / PowerFactory modelling
Equipment

Our technical resources

We rely on our own precision measurement equipment (power analysers, micro-ohmmeters, thermal cameras) and on the industry's reference software (ETAP, PowerFactory, Elec Calc).

References

Sectors & assignments

Work for demanding clients, from industry to major events, in France and for export.

IndustryChemicals / Food
Energy infrastructureSolar / Wind
Complex tertiaryHospitals / Stations
Datacenters & CloudCritical infrastructure
EventsMajor events
FarmsStray currents
Engineering firmsMeasurement & testing
Export & offshoreIEEE / ANSI standards
Japan — Export
Support for equipment testing & parameterisation

A support mission for the testing and parameterisation of electrical equipment for adaptation to Japanese infrastructure.

Industry — France
Disturbance investigation & power quality

Harmonic measurement and power-quality analysis campaign to trace the origin of nuisance tripping and overheating on a production installation.

40 MW datacenter — France
Owner's engineering assistance (AMO)

Owner's engineering assistance on a 40 MW datacenter — specification review, technical coordination and execution follow-up through to energisation.

Renewable energy — France
FAT / SAT & MV substation acceptance

Support for factory (FAT) and site (SAT) acceptance testing for the acceptance of MV substations of renewable-energy plants prior to connection and energisation.

Farm — France
Stray-current diagnostics

Investigation and measurement of stray voltages and leakage currents affecting livestock — source localisation, corrective measures and expert report.

Hospitals — France
DARDE expertise assignment

Analysis of electrical network reliability and continuity of supply in the event of a power outage, to safeguard the critical installations of hospital facilities.

Testing and parameterisation of protection relays on an MV cubicle

Testing & parameterisation of protection relays on an MV cubicle

Support for measurements on Japanese electrical installations

Support for measurements on installations — Japan

Measurements on a ground-mounted solar plant

Measurements on a ground-mounted solar plant

A continuous chain of skills

Volt Expertise works in tandem with LDHT Engineering. Where LDHT carries out upstream modelling and engineering studies, Volt Expertise brings the field measurement, expertise and high-precision verification that feed and validate them.

From numerical simulation to physical on-site measurement, this tandem gives you complete command of electrical risk — unique on the Breton and national market.

Volt Expertise — Lény Arribas
Field measurements & diagnostics. Baud (56), France.
LDHT Engineering — Léo Delaunay
Numerical modelling & network calculations. Plérin (22), France.
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About

Lény Arribas — Founder

Volt Expertise is an independent firm specialising in HV/LV electrical expertise, founded by Lény Arribas in 2024, with over 14 years of experience.

A career built within Socotec — from regulatory inspection to technical expertise — then as a technical missions officer at GL Events for the Paris 2024 Olympics, before founding Volt Expertise.

Background & qualifications

Experience
Manager — Volt Expertise
Since 2024 · Baud (56)
Technical missions officer — Paris 2024 Olympics
GL Events · 2024
Electrical consultant
Socotec Technical Consulting · 2022–2024
Project manager — electrical expertise
Socotec Assistance Technique · 2019–2022
Electrical inspection & fire-safety technician
Socotec · 2011–2018
Education
BTS Electrical Engineering
Lycée Colbert, Lorient · 2011
Bac STI Electrical Engineering
Lycée Saint-Ivy, Pontivy · 2008
ETAP ELEC CALC CANECO METREL MEGGER FLUKE

Sectors served

  • Industry — chemicals, food, automotive
  • Oil & Gas & complex tertiary
  • Energy infrastructure — PV, wind, substations
  • Datacenters & critical infrastructure
  • Export & offshore
Lény Arribas — Founder of Volt Expertise
Contact

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Contact details

Monday to Friday
Reply within 24 business hours
Baud (56150), Brittany
Interventions across France & international
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