Power System Blackouts Preventive Measures

introduction
Major blackouts are caused by not investing into your infrastructure, failing to carry out enough planning, lack of contingency planning and not analyzing your power system voltage requirements and operational conditions correctly. With any transmission and distribution system, reliability of the system is fundamental to preventing power outages and to ensure that regional and national assets are protected. The result of not planning and preventing power outages can have dramatic effects such risk to life through essential services such as supplies to Hospitals, Businesses not being able to function correctly, loss of revenue, unacceptable power quality and telecommunication transmission problems. This GLOMACS training course has been designed to ensure that you understand these issues and furthermore, can plan ahead to mitigate the risks to your power infrastructure.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
• List methods used to improve power quality
• Discuss analysis concepts when investigating potential power quality and interruption issues
• Analyze power quality
• Risk assess Power outages
• Understand how power outages can start and cascade
• Apply procedures to ensure power continuity
• Consider a variety of planning techniques for Power Blackouts
• Consider the use of SMART technology

Course Outline
DAY 1
• List methods used to improve power quality
• Discuss analysis concepts when investigating potential power quality and interruption issues
• Analyze power quality
• Risk assess Power outages
• Understand how power outages can start and cascade
• Apply procedures to ensure power continuity
• Consider a variety of planning techniques for Power Blackouts
• Consider the use of SMART technology

DAY 2
• Power system analysis
• Blackout preventative measures
• Blackout prevention – analysis of standards and compliance
• VAR Compensation
• Voltage stability
DAY 3
• Power restoration
• Analysis of restoration techniques
• Power system protection issues – Protection relays
• Transformer issues – cold load
• issues with power restoration
• Different approaches to power system restoration
DAY 4
• Modern techniques in power restoration
• System requirements
• Decisions for restoration after a local power disturbance
• Training techniques to prepare for Blackouts
• Evaluating lessons learnt from Blackout simulations, modelling and training
DAY 5
• Restoration of power policies
• Planning for power outages in large urban and urban locations
• Deployment of power Blackout planning
• Computers, automation and DCS control of power systems
• Local, specific and generic power system restoration techniques
• Support tools and interactive controls