The Smart Electric Grid

The Smart Electric Grid (GRID)

This 1-day course is targeted to all personnel involved in planning, upgrading, monitoring, and maintaining modern transmission and distribution systems.

Who Should Attend?

The course is targeted to:

• Engineers who are planning upgrades to existing systems

• Managers and executives who will be in meetings to select which options are available

• Procurement managers who oversee purchasing the technology

• Engineering technicians who work with the engineers in design details

• Project managers who schedule and monitor the construction

• Field personnel who install the equipment

• Field personnel who troubleshoot problems

• System operators who monitor the systems

What does GRID Cover?

1. The Grid Defined

2. Transmission Grid Control Following Major Loss During Summer Peaks

3. Transmission Grid Control Following Major Loss During Winter Peaks

4. Transmission Grid Control Following Major Loss of Generation

5. Distribution System Control During Generation-deficit Events

6. System Restoration After an Outage - “Cold load pickup”

7. Moving Towards Standardization of Equipment

8. FERC and NERC

9. FERC and NERC vs Other Governing Entities

10. Phasors Basics

11. Role of Atomic Clocks in Phasor Measurement

12. Real Power Flow with Respect to Voltage Sine Waves

13. Reactive Power Flow with Respect to Current Sine Wave

14. Phasor Measurement and Real Power (watts) Flow

15. Phasor Measurement and Reactive Power Flow (VArs)

16. Power Line Carrier for Communications

17. Integrating Renewables

18. Transmission Lines for Renewable Generation

19. Renewable Generation Relative to Load Curves

20. Future Uses of AMR and AMI 

21. Real Time Pricing

22. Self Healing Grid

23. Microgrids

24. The Future of Power Grids

Professional Learning Hours
GRID’s 1-day course is 8 hours.

Pricing
$12,700 for the first 24 and $530 for each additional person, plus instructor expenses from Portland, Oregon and shipping of books and demonstration items.

If you are a smaller municipal utility or co-op without 24 people for a class, have a utility association to which your utility belongs sponsor the class. If the association cannot, we have two recommendations. One is to contact neighboring utilities and determine their interest in jointly sponsoring a class. The second is to email PTS@utilitytraining.net and request a list of other associations who are conducting a class. PTS will provide links to the associations for any classes that are currently scheduled.