Learn the basic criteria for a safe design and calculation of earthing systems in any high voltage facility and perform analysis of calculations in customer success stories following the international standards IEC and IEEE. You will also resolve customer success stories on substations and smaller stations based on the current legal framework.

This course aims at analysing the main actions required to ensure the insulation coordination of electrical systems. It also focuses on assessing the specific equipment needed to address shielding, line insulation, earthing and other effects.

Follow our course to understand what arc flash means, how it can happen and how to study and analyse it. Get to know the relays coordination and arc flash hazard phenomena from a practical point of view. 

The goal of the course is to improve the ability of personnel from power utilities, Power generation, transmission companies & industries and consultants responsible for engineering, commissioning, operation and maintenance of substations to know the various aspects of substation engineering.

The main objective of this course is to learn how to assess the condition of switchyard's equipments, avoid age-related failure, minimize cost of consequential failure of peripheral equipment and optimise resources to plan and operate the electric system reliably and with the maximum economic benefit.

Learn about types of faults in transformers, generators and motors. Understand thermal overload protection, motor start-up proteciton, locked rotor protection, etc and discover the principles of major protections like differential, pole slip, reverse power and others.

Engineers interested in electrical protection are welcome to join us on this course to deepen on the most common protection devices and systems used in generation, transmission and distribution. Protection for generators, static machines, substations and lines will be addressed by our teachers, basing the course on an active methodology.

During this course, you will learn how to work safely in an electrical environment and how to ensure a safe workplace for your colleagues. At the end of this course you will be able to understand the importance of adopting standard tools and equipment, ensure that engineers on site can identify situations where special assistance is required and how to implement appropriate action.

Join this course to explore the fundamentals of asset management and how it has evolved in the past years. You will gain knowledge and master the importance of taking into account all management functions and understanding their role. Finally, you will learn how to perform asset simulations with a software like NEPLAN.

Understand the fundamentals of voltage and reactive power network problems and discover the alternatives and technical and economic advantages that FACTS systems can provide. Dynamic shunt compensation, applications of FACTS devices, comparison of STATCOM and SVC, among others, are some of the topics that will be tackled throughout this course.

Don't miss this very innovative course where we will go through VSC theory, harmonics and control to finally understand the role and functioning of HVDC and FACTS devices in today's grids.

Through this course you will discover the principles of Power Quality and Reactive Power compensation. You will also learn about the fundamentals of harmonics and will also understand how to perform a mitigation analysis.

Join this course to better understand the modelling of power systems and the main concepts of power flow studies. Learn and practice the basics of stability, short-circuit and protection analysis. You will also learn how to model power system components and networks, perform load flow analysis including contingency analysis, short-circuits and transient stability studies through specific customer success stories.

This course is aimed at individuals who work for developers, electric utilities and transmission system operating companies or system operators who are involved in the planning, engineering, specification and operation of power transmission systems who are interested in gaining an overview of the studies required to identify the potential risks and how mitigate SSO phenomena.

If you are interested in understanding the various types of subsynchronous oscillation phenomena you are on the right course. You will also delve into the role of electrical machines and the Hitachi Energy in these oscillations and learn how to mitigate and protect systems from SSO.

NEPLAN is one of the most important simulation softwares used in the market today to perform power systems analysis. Join this course to discover its potential by gaining a global vision of the main functionalities of the software and learning how to master basic actions like representing grids, working with diagrams, graphic layers and efficiently using the short-circuit and power flow modules.

This course provides a basic understanding of Reactive Power followed by conceptual knowledge of Voltage Stability. Subsequent parts of the course will focus on the identification and analyses of Voltage Stability in the Steady State and Dynamics regimes. Importance of adequate modeling of equipment shall be discussed with special considerations on load dynamics. 

A hands-on experience of technical analyses is included. The final day of the course will be devoted to practical mitigation of Voltage Instability concerns.