Train with Prescient
Learn up-to-date practices to keep your systems up, costs down, and customers happy. Our expert instructors can help make sure you stay on the cutting edge.
Our trainings are offered in partnership with the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
School of Continuing Education, Electrical Engineering Department. Our expert instructors have decades of experience teaching professionals in the electric utility industry.
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Courses can be adapted as workshops for electric utility businesses and organizations.
Contact us to schedule a workshop for your staff.
4Ge Electric Power Systems
Learn innovations that will address 4th generation changes, including widespread renewable energy production, environmental concerns and updated billing.
Audience:
Project managers, planners, financial officers, engineers, executives, & more.
Modern Electric Utility Rates
Learn about innovations in rate structure, i.e., methods for utilities to recover their infrastructure costs, or fairly reimburse customers who supply energy to the grid.
Audience:
Engineers, project/construction managers, planners, technicians, etc.
Substation Physical Security
Discuss acts of sabotage that have occurred in the U.S. and learn recommended practices to enhance the physical security of electric power systems.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Substation Drawing & Applications - Schemes
Create control elementary diagrams for high voltage circuit breakers using cut sheets provided by grid component manufacturers. Novices welcome.
Audience:
Engineers, planners, designers, and others who use wiring drawings.
Substation Drawing & Applications - Physical
Using manufacturer provided information, create original drawings used during the installation of high voltage circuit breakers.
Audience:
Engineers, technicians, and others who use physical electrical drawings.
Transmission and Distribution Systems
Through activities and discussions, learn about real-life scenarios for the operation and design of power systems.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Next Generation Protective Relay Systems
Learn about updates to protective relay systems to ensure enhanced security, dependability, and effectiveness.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Batteries, DC Systems - Loads & Expectations
Learn important considerations when using flooded cell and gel cell batteries and battery chargers.
Audience:
Project managers, engineers, designers, anyone involved with DC systems.
Understanding Power Line and Wildfire Risk
Become a wildfire risk assessor. Prevent wildfires caused from arcing power lines.
Audience:
Engineers, environmental professionals, first responders, and more.
DC Systems - Emergency and Peak Shaving
Learn about important considerations when using flooded cell and gel cell batteries and battery chargers.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Next Generation Power Systems
Learn about automated distribution networks, renewable customer-owned power sources, rapid voltage recovery, and more.
Audience:
Electrical engineering professionals and students.
Assessing the Condition of Aging Electrical Equipment
Learn about updates to protective relay systems to ensure enhanced security, dependability and effectiveness.
Audience:
Those who perform, schedule, or supervise maintenance activities.
Substation Grounding
Learn about important factors when developing ground grids for substations, from soil resistivity to structure grounding.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Predictive Renewable Energy Inverters
Learn about essential considerations when inverters are converted to units that enhance operations and event recovery.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Solar Flares and Wide Area Blackouts
Learn how geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) interact with the power grid, and how to prevent blackouts due to GICs.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Microgrid Fundamentals
Learn vital factors when implementing a microgrid, including seasonal and daily load cycles, energy sources, and more.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Revenue Stabilization with Renewable Energy
Learn best practices for investment recovery strategies that assure adequate revenue for host utilities as residential customers install rooftop PV systems.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Optimizing Electric Utility Storm Recovery
Discuss necessary preparations and best practices for prompt storm recovery. Construct a roadmap for restoring power within 8 hours of a major storm.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Understanding Power System Response
Learn about the impact of fault voltage and fault duration on fault induced delayed voltage recovery (FIDVR), and more.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, engineers, and technicians.
Optimizing Rolling Blackouts
Learn best practices for load control using rolling blackouts. Gain an in-depth understanding of best practices to implement before initiating rolling blackouts.
Audience:
Power system analysts, designers, and technicians.