Power System Planning and Economics, Power Flow Analysis Course
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Power System Planning and Economics, Power Flow Analysis Course
Course Overview:
This comprehensive course focuses on advanced knowledge and skills practical in power system planning and economics.
The participants will be acquainted with electricity sector planning, demand estimation, and efficient operation approaches.
The topics comprise of transmission expansion economic appraisal, power-flow problem formulation as well as advanced methodologies such as Newton-Raphson methods. Students are then introduced to demand-side management, deregulation, and open energy markets.
This course is tailored for technical and managerial staff within utilities, renewable energy sources, consultancy and research firms, which assists professionals with needed instruments for modern power system planning, reliability and operation.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Apply and gain in-depth knowledge of power system planning and economics
- Discuss the nature of planning in the electricity sector and the hierarchy of electricity planning models
- Illustrate electricity demand forecasting and review the load forecasting techniques and guidelines for selection
- Describe the economic operation of the power system and employ the planning methods properly
- Employ the various electricity pricing approaches
- Determine the value-based transmission expansion by quantifying the value of the transmission
- Formulate power-flow problem covering techniques for power-flow studies
- Perform newton-Raphson solution method and other power flow methods
- Recognize the optimal transmission capacity
- Carryout demand-side management as a strategic option in utility planning
- Discuss the deregulation of electrical utilities including the various issues and approaches
- As well as the open electrical energy markets
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for all Technical Staff, Engineers, and Managers from electric power utilities, independent generating companies including renewable sources, electricity regulations, system operators, industrial customers, manufacturing and consulting companies as well as educational and research institution who deal with the planning and operation issues of modern power systems.
Course Outlines:
- Introduction
- The Electrical Power System
- The Planning Cycle
- Load flow Studies
- Stability Analysis
- Short Circuit Studies
- System Load Forecasting
- Simulated System Operation
- Generation, Transmission and Distribution Planning
- System Reliability
- Protection Coordination