S&C’s Power Systems Services Presents:

Strategies and Planning for Improving Distribution Asset Performance Seminar

This seminar is designed for supervisors, managers and distribution system planners involved in asset management, planning, design, and operation of distribution systems. The course is offered as two related, but independent, modules. The first module provides an overview of various distribution system strategies and why they are important tools for the asset management function. The second module starts with a brief overview of these strategies and then provides a more detailed review of the most significant distribution planning functions. These functions include capacity planning, voltage control, reliability, and power quality.

Who Should Attend

Distribution planning engineers, supervisors, managers, consultants, and others involved in distribution system asset management, planning, design, and operation.

Seminar Location

S&C Electric Company
6601 North Ridge Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60626
(Google Map)

Attendees are responsible for their own hotel and transportation needs. Special hotel rates are available at:

• Hampton Inn & Suites, 5201 Old Orchard Rd, Skokie, IL 60077 - (847) 583-1111 - Request “S&C Rate”
• Comfort Inn, 9333 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077 - (847) 679-4200 - Request “Corporate Rate”.

Seminar Agenda

Seminar starts at 8:30 AM each day and conclude at 4:30 PM on day one and two and at 3:30 on day three. Lunch and snacks are provided. Attendees will receive an email about a week before the start of seminar that will provide more details on the course.

Module One:

1. Present state of the distribution system
2. Desired state of the distribution system
3. Strategies to get to the desired state
4. Economic considerations
5. Overview of distribution planning and reliability

Module Two:

1. Load Densities — Load Forecasts
1. Timelines — Substation
2. Feeder planning — Load balancing
3. Conductor sizing — Contingencies
4. Equipment ratings — System voltage level
2. Voltage control and regulation
3. At the substation
4. On the distribution system
1. Var management
2. Optimal placements of capacitor banks and controls
3. Automated capacitor control and local vs. centralized control
4. Using regulators and capacitors together
5. Reliability and power quality
1. Reliability indices and definitions
2. Targeting of reliability programs
6. Analysis of unknown caused outages
7. Feeder design for reliability
1. Manual — Automation
2. Intelligent automation
8. Branch-line reliability
1. Fuse save — Fuse blow — Trip saving
9. Optimization of reliability programs
10. Power quality issues
1. Special loads — Capacitor switching
11. Course summary

Credit for Professional Development Instruction

Upon completion of the workshop, a certificate of participation will be issued crediting 2.0 Continuing Education Units (CEU) or 20 Professional Development Hours (PDH).

Customized Course at Your Facility

This seminar can be customized for presentation at your facility. Please contact us if you would like more information.

Instructors

Christopher L. Brooks, P.E.

Chris is a Senior Consultant with Power Systems Services Division of S&C Electric Company and is a sought-after expert on the National Electric Safety Code (NESC), arc flash, distribution line design and protection, and many other topics in distribution power engineering.

He has over 25 years in the electrical power industry and has a rich background of experience in T&D management, engineering, research, planning, design, consulting, and training, both domestic and international. He also has experience in transformer design and manufacturing. Most of his career was with Westinghouse Electric Corporation and ABB performing and managing engineering and design projects for major US and international utilities and research organizations. His background also includes experience as the engineering manager for a rural electric cooperative utility and the director of engineering of a consulting firm that has cooperative and municipal utilities as clients.

His past and present research efforts include work for Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), US Department of Energy (DOE), Bonneville Power Authority (BPA), Canadian Electric Association (CEA) and Cooperative Research Network (CRN). Among his research projects with EPRI was the pivotal work that produced the now common reliability indexes, such as SAIDI, SAIFI, etc. He has a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington. Having strong presentation skills and proficiency in writing he has develop numerous lectures and seminars, and has over 30 publications, including two books. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is the Standards Chairman of the IEEE-REPC. He is also CPQ certified and is a registered professional engineer in over twenty states.

Charlie Williams, P.E.

Charlie Williams is a Senior Consultant for S&C Electric Company’s Power Systems Services Division. He has thirty-three years experience in a Fortune 500 Investor Owned Utility with expertise in Distribution Engineering, Operations, Reliability, Material Standards, System Design, Power Quality, Reliability and Management. This includes 14 years of field engineering and operations experience combined with 19 years of high level technical engineering work including Transformer Loading and Analysis, Power Quality, Harmonics Studies, Surge Protection, Reliability Studies, and Special Projects and Problem solving. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Florida. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, CPQ (Power Quality) certified and a registered professional engineer.

Questions?

Call Chris Brooks at (678) 427-0126 (e-mail cbrooks@sandc.com) or Marilyn Brown at (773) 338-1000 x2518 (email mbrown@sandc.com).