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The energy industry, like any other, is supported by professionals in finance, marketing, human resources management, legal, and of course, engineering. So it stands to reason that power engineers are not the only ones who need to understand how the electric power system works in order to provide service and implement the needed changes that will enhance the system’s performance, improve reliability, and integrate renewable resources and other green technology initiatives.

4 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 0
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 0

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It is becoming increasingly important for the utility engineer to provide economic justification for the technical project being proposed. As such it is important for engineers to gain a basic understanding of utility economics.

This course introduces the financial and economic aspects of the electric utility and shows how they relate to engineering decisions. The course discusses necessary accounting concepts, financial structures, depreciation computations, and revenue requirements.

Upon completion of the course the participant will be able make an engineering economic choice utilizing present value calculations as well as cost benefit analysis techniques.

2 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 0
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 0

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Distribution power systems across the globe are facing a dramatic change in the face of increasing distributed generation, energy storage and smart grid technology deployments. As such, governments and utilities are creating distributed system operators/platforms (DSO/Ps) to significantly improve the monitoring, operation and planning of the future distribution system.

Our instructors are heavily engaged in the development of NYREV-DSP (New York Reforming the Energy Vision - Distributed System Platform) one of the leading developments to create a DSO/P. This course will cover some of the latest developments from the US and Europe. Topics such as collaborative processes to develop/design a DSO/P, architecture development, DSO/P planning, market and operational segments will be described as well as the technologies required to create a DSO/P.

Through completion of this course participants will gain an understanding from the high-level concept down to the detailed architecture.

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Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 0
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 0

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The power industry is evolving and expanding rapidly with many new players entering the game, such as solar PV developers and demand and generation aggregators. As such, understanding the fundamentals of the power system today and the direction it is heading tomorrow is essential knowledge to make the right business decisions and investments.

This course will walk the participants through the history of the power industry evolution, making key comparisons along the way to other industry developments such as communications. The short, medium, and long term future developments of the industry will be discussed along with the technologies, business practices and market developments necessary to fulfill the future vision.

This course is led by seasoned instructors who are engaged in the very latest developments in the industry around the world and is designed for senior level executives and investors who need to better understand the industry evolution in order to make choice business decisions.

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This online learning tutorial is an introduction to the hands-on course of PSS®E – Dynamics Simulation using PSS®E in Version 33.  This tutorial is designed to familiarize new users with the Dynamic Simulation features of the PSS®E program, and to explore how different types of disturbances can cause systems to behave in certain ways through analysis of system response outputs from PSS®E dynamic simulations.  We encourage you to register for the full course once you have completed the tutorial.

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This online learning tutorial is an introduction to PSS®E – Power Flow and Steady State Analysis using PSS®E. The tutorial is designed to familiarize new users with the Power Flow features of the PSS®E Version 33 program. We encourage you to register for the full course once you have completed the tutorial.  

Once you purchase this tutorial, you can start and finish with no time constraints as many times as you wish!!

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IMPORTANT: Do not make travel arrangements until you receive class confirmation from Siemens Power Academy 

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This course provides transmission and distribution planning engineers, rate design engineers from utilities, and regulatory commissioners with methods for effectively modeling, analyzing, allocating and reducing losses. Topics include loss evaluation techniques, methods for simplifying the loss calculation, principal causes of losses (transformers and lines) and program requirements to reduce them effectively.

3 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 18

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The objective of the Substation Engineering and Design course is to provide participants with a basic understanding of the electrical engineering design fundamentals for new substations or for expansions of existing stations.

Upon completion of this course, participants will have a fundamental understanding of
substation design, which is a must for engineers and technicians working in the power system.

3 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 18

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Most major cities throughout the country have low-voltage network systems in the downtown commercial areas, supplying important loads requiring highly reliable service. Many network systems have been in service for more than 60 years, and the engineers familiar with these have retired. An understanding of the fundamentals of network system design, protection and operation is required by engineers and technicians involved with secondary networks for the first time.

The Low-voltage Networks – Theory and Practical Applications course teaches the design, operation, and protection practices used for both dedicated feeder grid and spot network systems, and for non-dedicated feeder spot network systems.

3 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 18

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Government and regulatory bodies are pressuring power utilities to improve power supply reliability while maintaining voltage level of the system within limits. Distribution Automation is one of the smart grid applications that can enable reliability improvement while accounting for voltage control. The Distribution Automation course provides participants with a practical understanding of system, equipment, economic and communication aspects of Distribution Automation applications.

4.5 days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 2.7
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 27

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Microgrids are one of the hot topics in the industry at this time with the promise of higher reliability, lower operational costs and net CO2 emissions. The challenge is to plan a Microgrid system that can meet these promises in a practical way.

This course will describe the system planning processes developed and applied at Siemens PTI. The course will describe how to break down high level Microgrid requirements to a practical system via techno-economic analysis and simulations.

Upon completion of this course the students will have a thorough understanding of Microgrids and will be armed with the knowledge required to create a practical Microgrid.

2 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.2
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 12

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Project teams face challenges such as aggressive deadlines, scope creep, communication breakdowns and financial constraints. It takes solid project management skills and knowledge to successfully manage these challenges and achieve project success.

This course discusses and examines tools used in the project management process for scheduling and controlling the types of projects a power system engineer would encounter.

2 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.2
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 12

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Understanding the role of renewable energy in the power supply portfolio is critical when developing a reliable and feasible power system, which meets Renewable Portfolio Standards and reduces the utility's carbon footprint. Power system engineers need an appreciation of the planning and operational impacts of integrating renewable generation into the transmission system and an understanding of renewable energy policies to sustain and grow this largely unharnessed energy source.

The primary objective of this course is to provide an overview of the technical challenges and benefits of integrating large amounts of renewable generation (wind and solar) and energy storage into the transmission system, along with the power system studies that need to be conducted.

Upon completion of this course, participants will have a deep understanding of the latest renewable generation and energy storage technologies, their capabilities and limitations and methods to assess their impacts on the transmission system.

4.5 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 2.7
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 27

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The efficient design and continuous modernization of plants is a crucial factor in order to secure sustainable business success in all industries. The objective of the Industrial Power Systems Applications course is to provide participants with a basic understanding of power system analysis that will enable them to make the best decisions across the lifecycle of their plant and equipment - from initial project planning through operation and maintenance or for expansion of the existing plant.

Upon completion of this course, participants will have a theoretical knowledge of design and operation of a modern industrial power system and will be able to apply problem- solving strategies to their plant network.

3 days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 18

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This course provides the link between physical system components and the market. It covers a variety of topics including market operations, economic dispatch, unit commitment,automation generation control, operating security and interchange evaluation, and power systems state estimation. Instruction will cover different power generation sources, the various measures of power plant efficiencies and how to plot these measures from plant test or design criteria. This course includes hands-on examples using PSS®E.

Upon completion of this course, participants will have a basic understanding of the energy management and control center activities of economic dispatch, unit commitment, electricity market operations, automation generation control, contingency analysis and state estimation. This is a great course for technicians, operators, economists, engineers and most professionals in the industry.

3 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 18

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Operations holds the key to assisting planning in defining study scenarios and calibrating models to recapture true renewable generation limitations and capabilities. Important lessons have been learned over the past 10 years to improve the flow of operations insights into the planning process and improving planning and operations collaboration.

Upon completion of this course, participants will have an understanding of how to perform renewable studies and how to utilize the required unique perspectives of operations and planning, while capturing greater insights available from the other.

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With an increasing number of new technologies (such as inverter based ) being connected to the power system that have complex behaviors, a comprehensive analysis including electromagnetic transient, dynamics and long term dynamics became even more important in the planning/operations area. However, understanding the key differences between each simulation domain, and understanding which simulation domain is required to capture the scenario(s) being studied, is not always clear.

In this course participants will gain a fundamental understanding of the different  domains of study, the key differences between them and knowledge of the right simulation domain to be used for certain scenarios.

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PSS®E – Fast Track Introduction to Steady State and Dynamics using PSS®E is an intensive hands-on course for power system engineers interested in learning the basic functions of PSS®E Power Flow and Dynamics in a condensed format. This course will help users get started with power flow data entry, solution and report, and apply data-checking functions in PSS®E to identify power flow modeling issues. In addition, participants will understand how to set up a dynamic simulation database in PSS®E, perform simulations of different types of disturbances and produce plots of key variables for analyzing transient and dynamic stability behaviors of the power system. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to immediately begin study work using PSS®E for steady state and dynamics analyses.

5 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 3.0

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An intensive hands-on course, PSS®E – Dynamics Simulation using PSS®E is designed to familiarize new users with the Dynamic Simulation features of the PSS®E program, and to explore how different types of disturbances can cause systems to behave in certain ways through analysis of system response outputs from PSS®E dynamic simulations.

Upon completion of this course, PSS®E users will be acquainted with the commonly used program functions in sufficient detail for them to begin study work involving dynamic simulations.

It is recommended to take the online tutorial as a prerequisite to attending the full formal course.


4.5 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 2.7
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 27

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In the PSS®E and Python™ Integrating Workflow (Part 1 – Intro) course participants will learn the basics of the Python language and how to automate PSS®E using the Python APIs.

Upon completing this course, participants who have little or no experience with Python will have the tools they need to start writing Python programs and driving PSS®E from Python. Participants with stronger programming and PSS®E skills will be able to make their processes more powerful and efficient.

3 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs)- 18

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In the PSS®E Reliability Standards and Grid Codes Compliance Studies course, learn to use the new features of PSS®E to conduct simulation studies to ensure that your transmission system and interconnected facilities meet the applicable reliability standards or grid codes. Use the Single or Multi-level AC Contingency Analysis engines to detect events that can potentially lead to overload cascading or significant loss of load; develop strategies for mitigating or preventing operating limit violations by using the calculated Sensitivity Factors; conduct N-1-1 Analysis to assess system performance under scheduled outage conditions; and perform Preventive Security Constrained Optimal Power Flow (PSCOPF) to prepare the system for the next N-1 condition. Also learn how to calculate the power factors of interconnecting generating facilities, assess the low voltage ride through capabilities of wind farms, and detect transient voltage dips during dynamic simulations. Try the new Results Analysis and Visualization (RAV) tool to drill deeper into the contingency analyses results in a systematic and graphical manner. Use the Geomagnetic Induced Currents (GIC) module to calculate induced voltages and currents during geomagnetic storms and assess the potential impact on power system performance. This hands-on course includes a variety of PSS®E exercises.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to use a variety of new features in PSS®E to ensure that their power systems will meet reliability and grid code standards.

3 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 18

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In the PSS®E and Python™ Integrating Workflow (Part 2 – Advanced) course participants will learn advanced capabilities of the Python language, and learn to apply these to create powerful Python programs to automate PSS®E.

Upon completing this course, the participant will have the tools needed to write advanced programs in Python to drive PSS®E and process the output.

2 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.2
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 12

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IMPORTANT:  Do not make travel arrangement until you receive class confirmation from Siemens Power Academy

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The PSS®MUST software program can efficiently calculate the impact of power transfers on key network elements, identify the most limiting contingencies and constraints, calculate incremental transfer capability (FCITC), and calculate the sensitivity of monitored elements or transfer capability to transactions, generation or load changes. These techniques are useful for a variety of applications such as calculating interface/flowgate transfer limits, determining the impacts of new generator or transmission projects, and calculating generator redispatch/TLR factors for relieving overloads.

Upon completion of PSS®MUST – Using System Transmission Data for Decision Making, participants will know how to use the interactive functions in PSS®MUST to examine and understand network conditions and limitations.

3 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 1.8
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 18

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Design, operation and protection of generation and transmission systems requires a thorough understanding of dynamic behavior of machines and controls as well as their interaction with the network and loads. System designs require unprecedented detail and dimensions in simulation capability; they depend on accurate prediction of transient and dynamic stability.

The PSS®E – Advanced Model Writing course provides participants with an understanding of the practical and theoretical aspects of dynamic modeling using PSS®E, a power simulation tool. In this hands-on course, participants will have an opportunity to write several user-defined models.

Upon completion of this course, participants will understand dynamic simulation objectives and requirements and will be able to use this knowledge to develop their own models in PSS®E.

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Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMDs) occur when solar energetic particles from the sun migrate to the earth and cause short-term variations in the earth’s magnetic field. These variations can eventually lead to Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) and a potential increase in var losses and harmonic distortion that may lead to voltage stability problems. The objective of the PSSC 800 course is to provide participants with an introduction to the GIC module in PSS®E, the theory of GIC, and the configuration and operation of the module.

Upon completion of this course, participants will have a fundamental understanding of GIC theory and basic knowledge to perform GICstudies using PSS®E.

1 Day
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 0.6
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 6

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Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMDs) occur when solar energetic particles from the sun migrate to the earth and cause short-term variations in the earth’s magnetic field. These variations can eventually lead to Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) and a potential increase in var losses and harmonic distortion that may lead to voltage stability problems. PSSC 810 is a hands-on workshop during which the instructor will review and discuss the participants’ actual PSS®E GIC models.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to perform GIC studies on their own system to prepare for the next solar flare.

1 Day
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 0.6
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 6

IMPORTANT:  Do not make travel arrangement until you receive class confirmation from Siemens Power Academy

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Overhead Transmission Line Asset Management provides participants with a fundamental understanding of the commissioning, maintenance and operations techniques that are a vital part of any overhead transmission line (OHTL) asset management program. Designed for electrical technicians and engineers, this course covers concepts that are of special importance to those working in the field.

Upon completion of this course, participants will better understand the fundamentals of OHTL asset management methods and tools, and be able to apply this knowledge to their asset management procedures.

4.5 Days
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) - 2.7
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) - 27

Webcast Price: $2,800.00
Classroom Price: $3,020.00

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Training Needs Assessment (TNA)

Siemens Power Academy now offers to help your company assess your training needs. The Training Needs Assessment is conducted via a survey and interviews concluding with a report that indentifies the gaps by business priority along with other useful statistics.  The results provided in the report will identify the knowledge gaps that exisit across multiple departments and can be used to create a training program to address those gaps. Not only is conduting a TNA an excellent way to assess your training needs, it can also save a lot of time and money knowing that your company is getting the right training they need to meet your company’s goals. 

Click here for the TNA Request Form!