Quanta Dacon Dashiell Flashcards

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What does Quanta do?

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Provide specialty contracting services to the electric power, oil and gas, and communication industries.

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What does Dashiell do?

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Operates as an engineering, construction, and testing company providing technical services to the electric utility, power generation, industrial, renewable and energy industries.

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What type of services does Dacon offer?

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Planning and System Studies, Design and Engineering, Maintenance and Testing, Project Management, construction, and turnkey EPC projects.

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What is Planning and System Studies

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Assisting clients in maximizing the performance, reliability, and efficiency of electrical systems.

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What is the desired outcome of system Planning?

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To gain a better understanding of the existing system and criteria analysis for future investment requirements, whether for new facilities or improvements to and expansion of existing facilities

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What is Design and Engineering ?

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A method used to identify and solve problems.

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What type of industry is Dacon in?

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Engineering and Construction

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What is project management?

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A strategic approach to executing and controlling multiple related projects

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What is an EPC project ?

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Engineering, Procurement, & Construction

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What makes Dashiell unique?

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We are a turnkey engineering, construction, and testing company that specialized in medium and high voltage electrical infrastructure.

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What is Dacon?

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The construction business unit of Dashiell, specializing in the construction of high and medium voltage electrical infrastructure.

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What is the meaning of a turn-key project?

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A project in which the supplier is responsible to the client for the entire result of the project and presents it to the client completely finished and ready to use.

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What does turn key involve?

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The development and design, the production, and the delivery and set up or installation of a project.

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What is renewable energy?

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It is useful energy that is collected from renewable resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, including carbon neutral sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

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What does it mean to be carbon neutral ?

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It means that the emissions an entity (business, organization, individual, product, or service) produces has been “balanced” by funding the equal amount of savings elsewhere in the world.

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What is Wind Energy?

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One of the cleanest and most accessible sources of energy. It is entirely renewable.

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What is Solar Energy ?

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The most commonly known source of alternative energy and is completely renewable.

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What is the major advantage of alternative energy technology.

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Green energy won’t run out and does not require the same damaging and expensive extraction techniques.

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What is Quanta’s Long Term Outlook for Electric Power?

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There is significant need to modernize North America’s electric power infrastructure, and continued investment growth is expected over the coming years. Our utility customers continue to deploy capital into multi-year electric transmission and distribution programs for grid modernization and reliability. They are accommodating a changing fuel generation mix towards natural gas and renewables, replacing aging infrastructure and strengthening systems for resiliency and to support long-term economic growth. These programs are multi-decade modernization initiatives intended to create robust and reliable delivery systems for the future.