Sample Course Agenda
Course content will be customized to the needs and interests of your organization.
Two Half Days Course Timing
One Full Day Course Timing
Introduction
Course Recap, Q&A, and Other Topics of Interest from the Participant
- 7:45 – 8:00 am Log In and start
- 12:00 pm End
One Full Day Course Timing
- 7:45 – 8:00 am Log In and start
- 12:30 – 1:15 pm Lunch
- 3:30 pm End
Introduction
- What is electricity, what does it look like how does it travel down wires
- Why was electricity adopted overnight as the world preferred energy source
- Difference between AC, DC, Single-phase and three-phase power
- How a generator turns energy into electricity
- What is Frequency and why was 50/60 hertz chosen
- How to calculate your electricity cost
- How to convert between kilowatt, megawatt, gigawatt, etc.
- How the grid is organized
- Recognizing the nuts, bolts, parts and pieces of the distribution grid that is all around us
- What is “the Grid”, “the Smart Grid” and the current advancements towards “Grid 2.0”
- What is the difference between Generation, Transmission, and Distribution?
- Difference between looped, radial, and networked feeders and how feeder load profiles work.
- Acronyms of transformative and new tech and concept behind them (ADMS, SCADA, EMS, DR, DER, VAR, PV, HVDC, QF, DG, RPS, AMS)
- Primary vs. Secondary, Underground vs. Overhead
- Most common types of overhead and underground conductors
- Steps utility works take to restore outages
- How breakers, fuses, switches, reclosures, and other new protection schemes protect the grid
- Concepts like transformers, induction, phase imbalance, power factor, vars, etc.
- Why do homes in the US have 120V and 240V
- What are substations and what is in them
- Distinguish between bluestaking colors
- How Balancing Authorities, traders and energy markets manage the bulk power grid
- Who and what are FERC, NERC, ISO (Independent System Operators), PP (Power Pools), BA (Balancing Authorities), RTO (Regional Transmission Operators), and Interconnections?
- Balancing concepts like contingency reserve obligations, frequency response
- Forecasting concepts like peak shaving, demand curves, duck curve and system peak demand
- Generation concepts like baseload, integrated resource plans and distributed energy resources
- Technologies like microgrids, demand response,
- How different type of generation systems work like Solar, Wind, Nuclear, Gas, and Coal plants
- Different energy storage technologies. (i.e., pumped hydro, batteries, electrolysis, etc.)
- How Decoupling incentivizes renewable energy goals
- How utilities use Integrated Resource Plans to ensure
- Difference between types of utilities: IOU, Coop, PUD, etc
- How natural monopolies operate
- What are Electric Service Suppliers, Community Choice Aggregates and others
- What is a vertically integrated utility
- Terms like Qualified Facilities, Independed Power Producers, Avoided Cost, Tariffs, Schedules
- Concepts like Capital Assets, O&M Expenses and how most utilities uniquely make money
- Difference between strait line and accelerated depreciation
- Which costs are recovered in rates and which by shareholders
- How different types of utilities finance activities
- What is decoupling, stranded assets, and wheeling charges
- How utilities protect their assets after storms, pandemics, wildfires and unforeseen events
- How to read an electric bill and what the different sections mean like demand charge, reactive demand, etc.
- The purpose and makeup of a Public Utility Commission
- How rates are set through a General Rate Case and other major regulatory proceedings
Course Recap, Q&A, and Other Topics of Interest from the Participant