Understanding Electric Utilities

February 10-11, 2020 | Denver, CO ::

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This training program will provide a foundation of understanding for persons working in, dealing with, or having special interest in the electric utility industry. The training explains utilities from four separate perspectives: infrastructure, operations, business, and regulatory.  

The infrastructure perspective covers electricity basics, equipment, and power systems in terms of generation, transmission, distribution, and customer. The operations perspective covers energy markets, bulk power dispatch, outage response, and storm restoration. The business perspective covers ownership structure, investor expectations, budgeting, and business transformation/utilities of the future. The regulatory perspective covers state regulation, federal regulation, and general rate cases.  

The course is designed so that anyone who is not familiar with utilities and electric power systems can benefit from the content. The course material will be a useful resource for future reference. The program is designed to stimulate dialog between the attendees and the instructor. A prior background in electric power systems or engineering is not required.  

Learning Outcomes 

• Discuss the basics of voltage, current, power, and energy  
• Identify and explain the equipment and terminology associated with generation, transmission, distribution, and customer services  
• Explain the history of the utility industry, what has changed, why it matters, and where it is going  
• Discuss major regulatory events and why they matter to the industry  
• Describe the different ownership structures and business models  
• Explain the basics of daily utility operations  
• Discuss the general rate case process, revenue requirements, and return on rate base  
• Examine the challenges and opportunities for utilities in the future  

Credits

EUCI is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.

EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 1.0 CEUs for this event.

 

Requirements for Successful Completion of Program 

Participants must sign in/out each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course.

Instructional Methods 

Power Point presentations and open discussion will be used. 

Monday, February 10, 2020

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. :: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. :: Introduction  

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. :: History of Industry  

• Electrification and Growth 
• Energy Crisis 
• Today 

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. :: Electricity Terms  

• Power & Energy 
• Three Phase Power 
• Real and Reactive Power 

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. :: Morning Break 

10:15 – 11:00 a.m. :: Generation  

• Traditional Generation 
• Renewable Generation 
• Energy Markets 

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. :: Transmission  

• Overhead Transmission 
• Underground Transmission 
• Regional Transmission Planning 

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. :: Group Luncheon  

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. :: Substations  

• Substation Layout 
• Substation Equipment 
• Protection & Automation 

2:00 – 3:00 p.m. :: Distribution  

• Overhead Primary 
• Underground Primary 
• Underground Residential 

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. :: Afternoon Break  

3:15 – 4:00 p.m. :: Service & Metering  

• Secondary and Service Drops 
• Secondary Networks 
• Customer Metering 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. :: Standard of Care  

• Safety 
• Bulk Power Reliability 
• Distribution Reliability 

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. :: Continental Breakfast 

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. :: Ownership Structure  

• Investor Owned 
• Customer Owned 
• Government Owned 

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. :: Rate Cases  

• Revenue Requirement 
• Rate Base 
• Rate Design 

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. :: Morning Break  

10:15 – 11:15 a.m. :: Utility Operations  

• Generation Dispatch 
• Outage Response 
• Storm Restoration 

11:15 – 11:45 a.m. :: Utility of the Future  

• Smart Grid 
• Data Analytics 
• New Business Models 

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. :: Course Review

Richard Brown, Director of the Engineering Management Consulting Practice, Exponent  

Richard E. Brown is Director of the Engineering Management Consulting Practice at Exponent. He has been on the leadership team for three successful startup organizations, has published more than 90 technical papers related to asset management and performance management, is author of the books Business Essentials for Utility Engineers and Electric Power Distribution Reliability, and is a registered professional engineer. He is also an IEEE Fellow. Richard earned his BSEE, MSEE, and PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Understanding Electric Utilities

February 10-11, 2020 | Denver, CO

Your registration may be transferred to a member of your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the event. Cancellations must be received on or before January 10, 2020 in order to be refunded and will be subject to a US $195.00 processing fee per registrant. No refunds will be made after this date. Cancellations received after this date will create a credit of the tuition (less processing fee) good toward any other EUCI event. This credit will be good for six months from the cancellation date. In the event of non-attendance, all registration fees will be forfeited. In case of conference cancellation, EUCIs liability is limited to refund of the event registration fee only. For more information regarding administrative policies, such as complaints and refunds, please contact our offices at 303-770-8800