Power System Analysis Skills for Engineers and Technicians
Upcoming dates (2)
Fee
- $1,895
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
ID
RA00691-D605
Credits
- CEU: 2
- PDH: 20
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
3/11/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 3/11/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 3/12/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 3/13/2025 8:00am - 3:00pm Central Time
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for one teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online. Contact us if you have any questions or if you need to make a change.
Registration confirmation will guide students through accessing the Canvas course site.
Students will create and log in to the Canvas course site with a NetID. Course assets such as instructional materials, participation certificates, and course evaluations will be available to all students through the Canvas course site.
The course materials are all digital and only available on the Canvas course website.
Online attendees will access sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform. The Zoom link will be provided a few days before the course.
Please watch the email address that you provide during registration for release dates and pre-course information.
Instructor
Dr. Brian Johnson
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $170
Group Code: Use reservation link below
Reserve by: Feb. 10, 2025
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Course Overview
Learn the fundamentals and advanced concepts of power system analysis in this practical course, which features problem-solving sessions and classroom workshops that will teach you how to create power system models and calculate fault currents for the various types of power systems faults and open-phase conditions.
Who Should Attend?
Who should attend?
- Utility engineers and technicians
- Plant engineers and technicians
- Consulting engineers and technicians
Additional Information
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of vector algebra, a familiarity with the voltage, current, watt, var and phase angle measurement terms.
- Please bring a scientific calculator.
Course Outline
Day 1
Review of Phasors
- Phasor defined
- Phasor representation of voltage, current, and power
- Combining phasors
- Phasor and circuit diagrams for balanced three-phase systems
- Phasors and phase rotation
- Balanced system calculations
- single-phase equivalent
- Time synchronized phasors
Review of Three-Phase Power Systems
- Single-phase systems
- Three-phase systems
- Phase angle and time relationships
- Wye and delta connected loads
- Real and reactive power
- Workshop – three-phase power calculations
Per-Unit System
- Definitions
- Advantages of per-unit system
- General circuit quantity relationships: three-phase power, line-to-neutral, and line-to-line voltage and current relationships
- Base quantities
- Per-unit relationships, per-unit impedances of equipment
- Changing per-unit quantities to different bases
- Workshop: Per-unit calculations
Day 2
Transformer Polarity and Phase Shift
- Polarity markings
- Subtractive and additive polarity
- Autotransformer connections
- Three phase transformer connections
- Delta-wye transformer phase shift
- Measurement transformers
Symmetrical Components
- Unbalanced systems of phasors
- Method of symmetrical components
- Derivation of sequence impedances
- Sequence networks
- Synthesis of sequence networks: positive, negative, zero
- Workshop: sequence networks
Modeling Power System Equipment for Fault Calculations
- Transmission and distribution lines
- Power transformers: transformer-winding configurations, autotransformers, positive, negative and zero sequence models
- Motors and adjustable speed drives
- Synchronous generators
- Inverter based generation and energy storage systems
Day 3
Sequence Networks
Fault Calculations
- Modeling fault impedance
- Sequence Networks for different types of three-phase short-circuit faults: three-phase, line-to-ground, double line-to-ground, line-to-line
- Short-circuit fault calculations: at fault location and other points on the network
- Workshop: Short-circuit fault calculations
Open-Circuit Faults
- Types of three-phase open-circuit faults: intentional vs. unintentional, one line open, two lines open
- Open-circuit fault calculations
- Workshop: Open-circuit fault calculations
Instructor
Dr. Brian Johnson
Brian K. Johnson (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in EE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1992. He is currently the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Endowed Chair in Power Engineering and University Distinguished Professor with the ECE Department, University of Idaho. He is also the Acting Director for the Center for Secure and Dependable Systems. His research interests include power systems applications of power electronics, HVDC transmission, power system protection, power system transients, and resilient control systems. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Idaho.
Power System Analysis Skills for Engineers and Technicians
Location: Madison, WI or Live Online
Course #: RA00691-D605
Fee: $1,895
Fee
- $1,895
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
Credits
- CEU: 2
- PDH: 20
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
3/11/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 3/11/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 3/12/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 3/13/2025 8:00am - 3:00pm Central Time
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for one teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online. Contact us if you have any questions or if you need to make a change.
Registration confirmation will guide students through accessing the Canvas course site.
Students will create and log in to the Canvas course site with a NetID. Course assets such as instructional materials, participation certificates, and course evaluations will be available to all students through the Canvas course site.
The course materials are all digital and only available on the Canvas course website.
Online attendees will access sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform. The Zoom link will be provided a few days before the course.
Please watch the email address that you provide during registration for release dates and pre-course information.
Instructor
Dr. Brian Johnson
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $170
Group Code: Use reservation link below
Reserve by: Feb. 10, 2025
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Power System Analysis Skills for Engineers and Technicians
Location: Madison, WI or Live Online
Course #: RA00691-D606
Fee: $1,895
Fee
- $1,895
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
Credits
- CEU: 2
- PDH: 20
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
8/12/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 8/12/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 8/13/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 8/14/2025 8:00am - 3:00pm Central Time
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for one teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online. Contact us if you have any questions or if you need to make a change.
Registration confirmation will guide students through accessing the Canvas course site.
Students will create and log in to the Canvas course site with a NetID. Course assets such as instructional materials, participation certificates, and course evaluations will be available to all students through the Canvas course site.
The course materials are all digital and only available on the Canvas course website.
Online attendees will access sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform. The Zoom link will be provided a few days before the course.
Please watch the email address that you provide during registration for release dates and pre-course information.
Instructor
Dr. Brian Johnson
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $170
Group Code: Use reservation link below
Reserve by: Jul. 11, 2025
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Power System Analysis Skills for Engineers and Technicians
Course #: RA00691Power System Analysis Skills for Engineers and Technicians
Date: Tue. August 13, 2024 – Thu. August 15, 2024ID: RA00691-D254
Fee:
- $1,795
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
- CEU: 2.1
- PDH: 21
Power System Analysis Skills for Engineers and Technicians
Date: Tue. October 24, 2023 – Thu. October 26, 2023ID: RA00691-C890
Fee:
- $1,795
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
- CEU: 2
- PDH: 20