Course Description:

This course covers topics related to electric power generation, transmission and planning, such as conventional and non-conventional methods of generating electric power, fundamentals of distribution systems, transmission system, power system operation and control, transformers, power system planning (reliability), and distribution system planning and automation

Course Goal:

To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to understand how to plan, generate, and transmit electric power.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course the participant will be able to:

1. Be Familiar with conventional and non-conventional methods of generating electric power
2. Understand fundamentals of distribution systems
3. Understand transmission system
4. Understand power system operation and control
5. Be Familiar with transformers
6. Be Familiar with power system planning (reliability)
7. Understand distribution system planning and automation

Course Outlines:

• Electric Power Generation: Conventional Methods

• 1. Introduction
  2. Fossil Power Plants
  3. Nuclear Power Plants
  4. Geothermal Power Plants
  5. Hydroelectric Power Plants
  6. Synchronous Machinery
  7. Thermal Generating Plants
  8. Distributed Utilities

• Electric Power Generation: Non-Conventional Methods

• 1. Wind Power
  2. Advanced Energy Technologies
  3. Photovoltaic

• Fundamentals of Distribution Systems

• 1. Primary Distribution Configurations
  2. Urban Networks
  3. Primary Voltage Levels
  4. Distribution Substations
  5. Sub transmission Systems
  6. Differences between European and North American Systems
  7. Loads
  8. The Past and the Future

• Transmission System

• 1. Concept of Energy Transmission and Distribution
  2. Transmission Line Structures
  3. Insulators and Accessories
  4. Transmission Line Construction and Maintenance
  5. Insulated Power Cables for High-Voltage Applications
  6. Transmission Line Parameters

• Power System Operation and Control

• 1. Energy Management
  2. Generation Control: Economic Dispatch and Unit Commitment
  3. State Estimation
  4. Optimal Power Flow

• Transformers

• 1. Theory and Principles
  2. Power Transformers
  3. Distribution Transformers
  4. Underground Distribution Transformers

• Power System Planning (Reliability)

• 1. Planning
  2. Short-Term Load Forecasting
  3. Short-Term Price Forecasting
  4. Transmission Plan Evaluation — Assessment of System Reliability
  5. Power System Planning
  6. Power System Reliability

• Distribution System Planning And Automation

• 1. Introduction
  2. Distribution System Planning
  3. Factors Affecting System Planning
  4.  Present Distribution System Planning Techniques
  5.  Distribution System Planning Models
  6.  Distribution System Planning in the Future
  7.  Future Nature of Distribution Planning
  8. The Central Role of the Computer in the Distribution Planning.
  9. Impact of Dispersed Storage and Generation.
  10. Distribution System Automation.

Who Can Benefit?

In general, electrical power engineers, supervisors and qualified distribution system technicians can take part in this course.