S&C’s Power Systems Services Seminar:

Strategies and Planning for Improving Asset Performance

This course is designed for supervisors, managers and distribution system planners involved in asset management, planning, design, and operation of distribution systems. The course is offered as two related, but independent, modules. The first module provides an overview of various distribution system strategies and why they are important tools for the asset management function. The second module starts with a brief overview of these strategies and then provides a more detailed review of the most significant distribution planning functions. These functions include capacity planning, voltage control, reliability, and power quality.

Agenda:

Module One:

1. Present state of the distribution system
2. Desired state of the distribution system
3. Strategies to get to the desired state
4. Economic considerations
5. Overview of distribution planning and reliability

Module Two:

1. Capacity planning
1. Load Densities — Load Forecasts
2. Timelines — Substation
3. Feeder planning — Load balancing
4. Conductor sizing — Contingencies
5. Equipment ratings — System voltage level
2. Voltage control
1. Voltage regulation
3. At the substation
4. On the distribution system
1. Var management
2. Optimal placements of capacitor banks and controls
3. Automated capacitor control and local vs. centralized control
4. Using regulators and capacitors together
5. Reliability and power quality
1. Reliability indices and definitions
2. Targeting of reliability programs
6. Analysis of unknown caused outages
7. Feeder design for reliability
1. Manual — Automation
2. Intelligent automation
8. Branch-line reliability
1. Fuse save — Fuse blow — Trip saving
9. Optimization of reliability programs
10. Power quality issues
1. Special loads — Capacitor switching
11. Course summary

Who Should Attend

Distribution planning engineers, supervisors, managers, consultants, and others involved in distribution system asset management, planning, design, and operation.

Credit for Professional Development Instruction

Upon completion of the seminar, participants will earn 2.0 CEU credits.

Customized Course at Your Facility

This seminar can be customized for presentation at your facility. Please contact us if you would like more information.

Instructors

Chris Brooks

Chris has over 25 years in the electrical power industry and has a rich background of experience in T&D management, engineering, research, planning, design, consulting, and training, both domestic and international. He also has experience in transformer design and manufacturing. Most of his career was with Westinghouse Electric Corporation and ABB performing and managing engineering and design projects for major US and international utilities and research organizations, but more recently he was the engineering manager for a rural electric cooperative utility followed by several years as the director of engineering of a consulting firm that targeted coop and municipal customers, At Westinghouse he was a participant and project manager for many major projects with Electric Power.

Charlie Williams

Charlie Williams is an Electric Systems Consultant for S&C Electric Company’s Power Systems Services Division. He has thirty-three years experience in a Fortune 500 Investor Owned Utility with expertise in Distribution Engineering, Operations, Reliability, Material Standards, System Design, Power Quality, Reliability and Management. This includes 14 years of field engineering and operations experience combined with 19 years of high level technical engineering work including Transformer Loading and Analysis, Power Quality, Harmonics Studies, Surge Protection, Reliability Studies, and Special Projects and Problem solving.

Questions?

Call Vince Stewart at (773) 338-1000, Ext. 2619 or contact him by e-mail at vstewart@sandc.com