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Workshop overview
This 2-day class is a follow up course to the Electric Utility System Operations workshop. It is tailored for participants who work in designing and operating a distribution system, such as field crews, substation technicians, designers, drafters and support staff. The workshop provides in-depth coverage of an electric utility’s distribution system from the distribution substation to a customer’s connection.

You'll Learn

  • The theory behind ferroresonance and ways to minimize ferroresonance
  • Capacitors for voltage control, harmonics and stray voltage
  • The reason loose and open neutrals destroy electronic equipment

Key Topics

  • Sizing Conductors               
  • Transformer Phase Shifts
  • Fault Current Studies
  • Ferroresonance
  • Open Neutrals
  • Harmonics
  • Voltage Control
  • Coordination Studies
  • Open Delta Systems
  • Reclosers
  • Stray Voltage
  • Sectionalizers

Who should attend?
Substation Technicians, Engineer Technicians, Engineers, Journeymen Linemen, Line Construction Personnel, Design Engineers, Drafters, field crew and support staff.

Registration fee (does not include lunch)
$575 per person for FMEA utility and associate members
$725 per person for non-members


Registration deadline March 31, 2010


Instructor
A.R. “Skip” Collier, Professional Training Systems, Portland, Oregon.

Cancellation policy
Cancellations must be made in writing and should be sent to bthompson@publicpower.com Cancellations after April 1, 2010, will be charged 25 percent of the registration fee. No shows will be charged 50 percent of the registration fee.

Questions
Contact Cheryl Anderson, Director of Training and Member Services at (850) 251-5465.

Hotel location
Grand Bohemian Hotel
325 S. Orange Avenue
Orlando, FL 32801
Phone: (407) 313-9000
Room Rate: $129

Workshop location
Orlando Utilities Commission
Reliable Plaza
100 West Anderson Street 
Orlando, FL 32801
(407) 423-9100, ext 2371

FMEA, P.O. Box 10014, Tallahassee, FL 32302-2114
Tel: (850) 224-3314 Fax: (850) 224-2831 E-mail: fmea@publicpower.com
www.publicpower.com

For more than 60 years, the Florida Municipal Electric Association has supported and strengthened Florida's community-owned municipal utilities, their 6,000 employees, and the 3 million Floridians they serve. FMEA's Utility Training Institute offers statewide training and certification programs for Florida's municipal electric utilities, electric cooperatives and investor-owned utilities.