NERC System Operator Certification Training:
NERC System Operator Certification Training, An Exam Preparation Program
NERC System Operator Certification Training is a NARC-oriented System Operation Certification training preparation training course. System Operator Certification Training discusses operational tasks, and the reliability of bulk power systems during normal and emergency operations. Explore NERC Practice Tests for system operator exam including:
- Transmission Operator
- Balancing & Interchange Operator
- Balancing, Interchange & Transmission Operator
- Reliability Authority Operator
Learn about exam topics:
- Bulk power generation, transmission, and distribution principles
- Bulk power system operation
- Reliability of the bulk power systems
- Balancing, Interchange, and Transmission
- Power Generation, Transmission, and Interchange
- System Protection and Control
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the reliability and security of the bulk power system in North America.
What’s Included?
- 4 days of NERC System Operator Certification Training with an expert instructor
- NERC System Operator Certification Electronic Courseware Guide
- Certificate of Completion
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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- If you are familiar with some aspects of NERC System Operator Certification Training, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
- We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the NERC System Operator Certification Training course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
- If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the NERC System Operator Certification Training course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
Course Syllabus:
NERC Power System Operations Principals
- NERC System Operation Process
- System Operations 101
- Contingency Analysis and Reliability
- Reliability Examination
- Transmission Examination
- Power system Examination
- Emergency Preparedness
- Emergency Response
- Communications and Data
- Load-Frequency
- Control and Performance
- Measures for Emergency Conditions
- Policy Statements
- System Restoration Plan Objectives
- Disturbance Conditions
- Generator Frequency Trip Settings
- Under frequency Load Shed Trip Settings
Voltage and Reactive Power Control
- Reactive power theory
- Importance of Reactive Power
- Problems of Reactive Power
- The aim of power factor correction
- Overview on Different Voltage and Reactive Power Control Methods
- Distribution System Voltage Control
- Volt/var control (VVC)
- Transmission System Voltage Control
- Primary Control
- Automatic voltage regulator (AVR)
- Power system stabilizer (PSS)
- Secondary Control
- Preventive And Emergency State Voltage Control
- Elements of the System, that Produces and absorbs Reactive Power Loads
Ways of Improving Voltage Stability And Control
- Reactive power compensation
- power transfer capability
- voltage stability
- static var compensator (SVC)
- Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOM),
- Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)
- Shunt capacitors
- Series capacitors
- Shunt reactors
- Synchronous condensers
- SVC
- STATCOM
Reactive Power in Operations
- Reactive power Effects
- Effects on Loads
- The delivery system (transmission lines and transformers)
- Power Capacitor Based Compensating Devices
Fundamentals of Power system Angle and Voltage Stability
- Generator controls
- Frequency regulation
- Corrective control versus preventative (N-1) strategies
Maintenance and Backup for Operational Tools
- Cultural Needs in an Evolving Electricity Structure and Environment
- Actions Operators Can Take
- Recommendations
- System Monitoring
- Roles and Responsibilities
Fault and Protection Basics and Terminology
- Protection Review
- Types of Faults
- Electrical fault
- Symmetrical faults
- Unsymmetrical faults
- Line to ground (L-G), line to line (L-L) and double line to ground (LL-G) faults
- Unsymmetrical faults
- Unsymmetrical faults
- Causes and Mitigation of Electrical Faults
- Weather conditions
- Equipment failures
- Human errors
- Smoke of fires
- Over current flow
- Danger to operating personnel
- Loss of equipment
- Disturbs interconnected active circuits
- Electrical fires
Protection Methods and Techniques
- Types of protection
- Protecting devices
- Fault limiting devices
- Fuse
- Circuit breaker
- Relay
- Lighting power protection
- Application based three phase fault analysis
- Three phase fault analysis
- Electrical equipment damage
- Time versus current plot
- Protection requirements
- Protection system elements
- Protection Relay and Power Systems Faults
- Protective device
- High-voltage transmission network
- Generator sets
- Overload and back-up for distance (overcurrent)
- Earth fault (“ground fault” in the United States)
- Distance (impedance relay)
- Back-up
- Low-voltage networks
- Disturbance-monitoring equipment
- Performance measures
- Protection systems components:
- Current and voltage transformers
- Protective relays
- Circuit breakers
- Batteries
- Communications
System Restoration after Blackout
- Restoration Overview
- Restoration Techniques
- Restoration Planning
- Specific System Restoration
- Power System Restoration: Methodologies & Implementation Strategies
- Techniques used in restoration planning a
- Knowledge-based systems as operational aids in restoration
- Issues associated with thermal power plants
- High and extra-high voltage transmission systems
- Restoration of distribution systems
Restoration Process Procedures
- System Operator Responsibilities during the Restoration Process
- Ascertain System Status
- Determine Restoration Process
- Disseminate Information
- Implement Restoration Procedure
- Criteria and Conditions for Reestablishing Interconnections
- Returns to Normal Operation
- Communications
- Communication and Logging Protocols
- Evaluate System Status
- SCADA and Local Metering
- Computer and Operator Aides
- Emergency Power for Communications and Related Support Systems
- Reserves during Restoration
- Synchronous Reserve
- Dynamic Reserve
- Sample Dynamic Reserve Calculations
Transmission Restoration
- Voltage Regulation and Control
- Reactive Regulation
- Minimum Source Guidelines
- Synchronization
- Synchronizing Process Phases
Generation Restoration
- Generating Stations
- Plant Shutdown
- Generating Plant Communications
- Plant Starting Procedure
- Notify Plants
- Plant Frequency Control
- Units Requiring Cranking Power
- Cranking Power Demand
- Cranking Power Source and Black Start Paths
- Energize Start-up Loads
System Restoration Plan Guidelines
- System Restoration Plan Guidelines
- Ascertaining System Status
- Determining Restoration Process
- Disseminating System Status Information
- Implementing Restoration Process
- Frequency Control
- Verify Switching Equipment Constraints
- Transmission Owners Interconnect
- Guidelines for Area Interconnection and Use of External Power during
- System Restoration
- Minimum Critical Black Start Requirement
- Critical Black Start Criteria
- Minimum Critical Black Start Requirement
- Restoration Forms
- Restoration Drill Guide
- Communications, Protocols and Testing
- Transmission Owner and Black Start Supporting
- Documentation References
- Under Frequency Load Shed (UFLS) Tables
- Introduction to the Problems of Analysis and Control of Electric Power Systems
- Configuration and Working Point
- Frequency and Active Power Control
- Dynamic Behavior of the Synchronous
- Dynamic Behavior of Network Elements and Loads
- Voltage and Reactive Power Control
- The Synchronous Machine Connected to an Infinite Bus (pages 562–618)
- Electromechanical Phenomena in a Multimachine System
- Transformation to Symmetrical Components
- Elementary Outline of the Automatic Control Theory
Power System Control Center Operations and Management
- Power distribution control centers
- Roles in managing and operating distribution
- Operational Technology point of view
- Operational Responsibilities
- Control Center Operator Responsibility and Functions
- Control center operational hierarchy
- Load Forecasting
- Peak-Demand Management
- Demand Response Program Management
- Power Quality Management
- Reactive Power Management
- Loss Management
- Predictive Outage Management
- Predictive Maintenance Management
- Mobile workforce Management
- Dynamic Load Management
- Fault Management
- Outage Management
- Operation Technology (OT) systems
- Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
- Distribution Management System (DMS)
- Outage Management System (OMS)
- WMS (Work Management System)
- EAMS (Enterprise Assets Management System)
- GIS (Geographical Information System)
- AMI/MDM (Advance Metering Infrastructure/Meter Data Management)
- DRPM(Demand response Program Management)
- MWFM (Mobile Work Force Management)
- CIS (Customer Information System)
Wrap-up – NERC System Operator Certification Training
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