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250 MW on the Rooftops of Southern California - $50

Southern California Edison (SCE) is launching the nation's largest solar cell installation, a project that will place 250 megawatts of advanced photovoltaic…
Speakers: Deanne Nelsen; Janos Rajda
Track: Renewable Power on the Grid

Battery Sizing and Consideration - $50

Substation batteries supply power to protective relaying schemes, circuit breaker trip coils and other essential services…
Speakers: Tony Sleva P.E.
Track: Substation II

Business Essentials for Utility Engineers - $50

Utilities are becoming more business driven, and are requiring spending decisions to make good business, in addition to good engineering sense…
Speakers: Richard Brown PhD, P.E.
Track: Tools to Manage Your Projects

Cost Effective Distribution Reliability Improvement - $50

Since distribution reliability is affected by many functions and budgets, uncoordinated approaches to improve reliability are often not cost effective…
Speakers: Richard Brown PhD, P.E.
Track: Power Quality & Reliability

CT Theory and Applications - $50

Current transformers supply low voltage, low current inputs to protective relays that actuate to isolate short circuits and other system faults…
Speakers: Tony Sleva P.E.
Track: IT Enabled Delivery

Distribution Line Design - $50

This course will provide an overview of the fundamentals of distribution line design. Design criteria, material selection, and construction considerations…
Speakers: Mike Good P.E.; Dean Stange E.I.T.
Track: Distribution Engineering

Fundamentals of Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources for Electricity Production - $50

This course will review the energy conversion principles of renewable and alternative energy resources to electrical power. Engineering fundamentals, including…
Speakers: George Rodriguez; Stephanie Hamilton
Track: Renewable Power on the Grid

GIS - Where the Rubber Meets the Road - $50

Given the vast opportunity for GIS, this course provides several ways to look at the benefits of GIS within the utility industry…
Speakers: Gathen Garcia
Track: Theory's Great, But How Do I Use It?

Integration: Generation, Transmission, Transportation & Storage - $50

Multiple assets can be leveraged in ways that extend and enhance functionality, and ultimately the quality, reliability, and efficiency of meeting utility …
Speakers: Charlie Vartanian; Shimo Wang
Track: Renewable Power on the Grid

Overview of the Intelligent Distribution Grid - $50

Consider the last mile (from the substation to the customer). Why is it that so many utilities only know there is an outage when the customer calls in to report it…
Speakers: Gene Wolf P.E., FIEEE
Track: IT Enabled Delivery

Power System Protection and Coordination - $50

This course provides a comprehensive overview of short circuit theory and terminology, over current coordination fundamentals, fuse characteristics…
Speakers: Giancarlo Leone P.E.; John Sovers P.E.
Track: Substation II

Power System Grounding (Intermediate) - $50

This course provides a comprehensive overview of introduction and definition of terms, safety in grounding, principle design considerations…
Speakers: Ruwan Weerasundara; Giancarlo Leone P.E.
Track: Substation II

Switchyard Configuration and Considerations - $50

Switchyards consist of buses, circuit breakers, disconnect switches, and related components arranged in single breaker — single bus, double breaker…
Speakers: Tony Sleva P.E.
Track: Substation I

Transmission Line Design 101 - $50

From required permits and licenses to the more technical aspects of the transmission line design, this course provides a comprehensive overview of…
Speakers: David Hancock P.E.
Track: Overhead Transmission

Transmission Line Design 201 - $50

This course provides a detailed approach to transmission line design. Topics covered will include: Wire and structure behavior; Structure type selection…
Speakers: David Hancock P.E.
Track: Overhead Transmission

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Building a Smarter Grid: Managing Assets to Improve Utility Decision Making
Sponsored by ABB
Join Greg Scheu, President and Head of Power Products for ABB, and Rick Bush as they discuss how utilities can extract more value from existing grid infrastructure by managing the overall assets of the T&D operation. Listen Now »

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Electromagnetic Pulse Discussion with Eric Hsieh
NEMA Government Relations Manager Eric Hsieh discusses an EMP and its possible effects on the electric grid.

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Briefing Room

At the Briefing Room you will be able to stay up-to-date on the latest technology announcements where we will provide daily postings from our industry sources.

Webcasts

Transmission & Distribution World On Demand events allow you to access archived webinars when it is convenient for your schedule. These free events are available for viewing 24/7.

Smart Grid Network Technologies and the Role of Satellite Communications

Sponsored by iDirect
September 21, 2010 @ 2:00PM ET / 11:00AM PT

The goal of the presentation is to provide an overview of utility communication technologies and outline the value of VSAT satellite and where it fits in with communications networks currently used to support the smart grid. In this presentation, iDirect will share key findings and implications.

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Increasing Capacity On Overhead Lines

Sponsored by Alcan/Promethean

Join Transmission & Distribution World and our sponsors, Alcan and Promethean, as we present our third in a series of Web Seminars on Increasing Grid Capacity as we look at devices and software available to extract additional capacity from existing circuits.

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The Present and Future of Grid-Connected Energy Storage

Sponsored by Ice Energy

In this new energy world, we are facing state green energy targets that mandate utilities deliver 20% renewables by 2020. But we know that wind and solar don’t bend to our will like coal and nuclear so, to put it simply, if we are to meet the demands of the times we need the ability to store and recall energy.

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