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Smart Grid Overview
A one-day overview of what the Smart Grid is, what it will do, and why we are implementing it
This one-day seminar presents the technologies that make up the Smart Grid, how they are integrated into operations for each segment of the electric industry, and how implementation of the Smart Grid will impact the energy business. You will become familiar with a framework for evaluating Smart Grid technologies and their function in the various electric business sectors, the various technologies that are implemented through Smart Grid initiatives, how these technologies will interact to change the electric business, and various cost/benefits studies that have evaluated impacts on rates and customers. If a clear understanding of what the Smart Grid is and what it will do can benefit you, Smart Grid Overview can help you understand this exciting and lucrative subject.
This course was designed with your participation in mind! Questions and discussion among attendees are highly encouraged. And you will participate in a number of group exercises that will give you a real-world perspective of how the Smart Grid actually works. You will leave this information-packed seminar with relevant and current information that can be applied immediately to your work!
Prerequisites: Electric Business Understanding, Electric System Fundamentals or a basic understanding of the electric grid and the electric business
Contact us at 866-765-5432 or 'info' for more information.
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Is Smart Grid Overview the right seminar for me?
If you need a detailed overview of what the Smart Grid is and what it will do to the electric business, but can’t spend more than a day away from the job, this seminar is for you! Whether you are working for an electric transmission or distribution company, a competitive market participant, a technology company providing products to the electric industry, or an entity regulating the industry, you will benefit from the insights you will receive in this class. While anyone with a connection to the electric industry should consider this fundamental seminar, here are the types of employees who have found this class especially helpful to their continued success in the industry:
- Professionals in electric generation, transmission or distribution companies
- Professionals at competitive market participants such as merchant generators, wholesale marketers, financial services companies, retail marketers, and energy services companies
- Employees in system operations
- Regulatory or government policy employees requiring an understanding of issues associated with the Smart Grid
- Professionals such as attorneys, accountants, finance, PR, etc., who are active in the energy industry
- Technical and business employees of technology vendors wanting to understand how their technology may be implemented as a part of Smart Grid
How will Smart Grid Overview help me?
If you work in the electric industry, the Smart Grid is one the biggest trends that will fundamentally change your business. So you cannot afford to not understand what it is and what it will do. By attending this seminar you will learn what you need to know about the Smart Grid in order to evaluate how it will impact you and to identify where your unique opportunities lie.
In one information-packed day, this dynamic course will provide you with a solid understanding of:
- What the Smart Grid is, what it is intended to do and why we are implementing it
- The key functions of the Smart Grid and what we will be able to do differently as it is implemented
- The key Smart Grid technologies and how and where they are applied
- Customer, regulatory and business issues associated with Smart Grid implementation
- Where the Smart Grid has initially been implemented and lessons that have been learned
- Possible futures for the Smart Grid
- Basic Smart Grid Concepts
- 20th century vs. 21st century grid
- What is the Smart Grid?
- What is it intended to do?
- Business and regulatory drivers
- Key benefits and risks
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework for understanding Smart Grid in various industry sectors
- Key Smart Grid Functions
- Real-time wide-area system condition sensing, visualization and analysis
- Real-time system contingency analysis
- System protection, restoration and self-healing
- Renewables and storage integration
- Asset management and on-line monitoring
- Remote control of system assets
- Advanced metering (remote data collection plus real-time usage data)
- Demand response and dynamic pricing program enablement
- Distributed generation integration
- Customer participation in energy market enablement
- Data mining and analysis
- Key Smart Grid Technologies
- Overview of key technologies
- Bulk power system technologies
- Disturbance monitoring equipment
- Phasor devices
- Power quality and flow control
- Generation station equipment
- Substation equipment
- Transmission equipment
- Storage devices
- Wide Area Management Systems (WAMS)
- Distribution system technologies
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and smart meters
- Power factor correction devices
- Distributed generation and demand response aggregation systems
- Distribution system sensors and controls
- Electric vehicle (EV) management systems
- Customer facility technologies
- Consumer electronics and smart appliances
- Distributed generation and demand response
- Electric vehicles (EV)
- Home Area Networks (HAN)
- Building Automation Systems (BAS)
- Industrial Automation Systems
- Electric market interfaces
- Interaction of technologies, information and systems across sectors and market participants
- Customer, Regulatory and Business Issues
- Smart Grid standards
- Cyber security
- Information systems
- Data storage
- Managing customer expectations and concerns
- Costs, benefits and impacts on customer costs
- FERC Smart Grid policy
- State-level Smart Grid policy
- Utility business issues
- Other market participant business issues
- Case Studies
- Examples of Smart Grid implementations by various entities
- Lessons learned
- The Future of the Grid
Group discount
Attend this seminar with your workgroup and you can save up to 25%. For every three people from the same company who attend this course, the fourth is free!
Course length
One day
Prerequisites
Electric Business Understanding, Electric System Fundamentals or a basic understanding of the electric grid and the electric business
Seminar times
This seminar begins at 8:30and ends at 5:00. But feel free to come early to enjoy complimentary breakfast, ask questions of your instructor and network with other class participants.
Registration fee
$795 (save $100 - only $695 if paid three weeks prior to seminar). This fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and morning and afternoon breaks. The fee also includes course materials.
Cancellation policy
All class sizes are limited and your place in class is held exclusively for you. Registrations cancelled two weeks or more prior to the seminar date will receive a full refund minus a 10% administrative fee or a credit for 100% of the registration fee good towards any other Enerdynamics product. Registrations cancelled with less than two weeks notice but more than two days notice will receive a credit for 100% of the registration fee good towards any other Enerdynamics product. Registrations cancelled with less than two days notice are not eligible for refund or credit. Substitutions may be made at any time and without additional cost.
Contact us at 866-765-5432 or 'info' for more information.
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