March 21-22, 2010

This year, Utility University is excited to offer popular and exciting courses from previous years, plus new courses and topics that feature critical topics in the industry. Utility University offers what you need to advance your career!

Certificate of Completion: Upon completion of a course, attendees will receive a certificate to provide to their individual associations for credit toward education units. Check with your association for details on their requirements for certification. 

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Sunday March 21, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• Utility personnel, vendors, system integrators
• Individuals considering the purchase of DNP3 devices
• Beginner users of the DNP3 protocol

Greg Smith, BASc, BCS, received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 and Bachelor of Computer Science in 2008 from the University of Windsor. Greg is a Systems Engineer at SUBNET Solutions, Inc.

Sunday, March 21, 2010, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• Total system efficiency approaches
• Integrated system steady state capacity planning
• Cross functional capital deployment optimization
• Regulatory views of optimization with new technologies
• Safety issues and opportunities from new technologies
• New integrated approaches to improving reliability/security
• Environmental and societal impact and opportunities from integrated planning
• Electrification of transportation
• Understanding the dynamic priorities of the utility and stakeholders to establish real-time operating priorities

Who should attend this course?

• Utility personnel
• Vendors
• System Integrators
• Regulatory personnel
• Research personnel (academia, national labs, etc.)

Larry Dickerman is a 35-year veteran of the utility industry with broad operational and management experience. Mr. Dickerman is widely recognized as an industry leader and innovator in asset management, emergency restoration planning and smart grid technology development. Prior to joining KEMA, Mr. Dickerman held positions at AEP as Director Distribution Engineering Services, Director Distribution Dispatch and Emergency Restoration Planning, Vice President Distribution Services, Vice President Portfolio Analysis and Asset Strategy, and Vice President Distribution Asset Management.

#106
DNP3 in the Real World
Presented by: Andrew West and panel from DNP3 Technical Committee
This course provides an in-depth look at configuring and using DNP3 in real-world applications. It extends the learning provided in the DNP introductory course by discussing issues faced when deploying systems. After an overview of operating philosophies, a panel of experts from the DNP3 Technical Committee will share their experiences and discuss case studies of successful and problematic installations. Attendees are encouraged to submit “real world” scenarios (what worked and what didn’t work) for discussion by the panel. Topics include:

• Overview of Fundamental Operating Philosophies
• Important DNP3 settings
• DNP3 deployment considerations
• Using the device profile document, including mapping to IEC 61850
• Advanced DNP3 features, including secure authentication
• New interoperability requirements
• Case Studies
• Overview supplied by DNP3 Technical Committee
• Supplied by attendees
• Review/Summary

Who should attend this course?
Anyone working with DNP3, including:

• Field Maintenance Technicians
• SCADA System Integrators
• SCADA System Engineers
• Device Design Engineers (Vendors)

Andrew West has worked as a GenCo/TransCo master station and substation automation software engineer, as a firmware engineer for RTU and SCADA communication protocol product vendors and is now SCADA Design Consultant with Invensys Process Systems. Andrew actively participates in SCADA protocol standardization activities, including chairing the DNP Technical Committee.

#107
Smart Meter Program Integration
Presented by: James Ketchledge and Kevin Cornish
A successful implementation of a smart meter project involving Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Meter Data Management Systems (MDMS), Demand Response (DR), and Distribution Automation (DA) has more challenges than a typical utility project. These projects require utilities to follow an excellent project management, system implementation and system integration process due to the inherent complex technology behind smart meter projects, the impact to core utility revenue operations and the integrations across other enterprise IT systems required to enable the smart grid vision. This course will cover the proper project management and system engineering controls and methodologies needed to ensure that the utility’s technical quality, schedule and cost objectives are achieved. Now that ARRA (stimulus) funding appears to be imminent and many utilities are about to embark on projects, this course will help those involved in the delivery process establish the frameworks and tools to be successful.

Who should attend this course?

• Utility personnel involved with the program management or delivery of smart meter solutions
• Utility executives and sponsors who need to understand the risk profile and implementation considerations
• Vendors that wish to gain a better understanding of utility issues and perspectives

James Ketchledge, PMP, is the General Manager for Projects at Enspiria Solutions, where he runs the project management office and directly leads smart grid implementation and integration projects. He has 23 years in systems/software engineering and 12 years of project management experience. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering.

Kevin Cornish has over 20 years of experience in the field. He held various positions in engineering and operations at a major utility and worked for AMI vendors in solution design, project management and system delivery. He brings experience and insight into how to make a utility’s AMI project successful.

Sunday 21, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• Reliability Indices – Reliability indices, the most commonly-used indices, regulatory use of indices, data issues, benchmarking issues, indices that are good to use and indices that are not good to use.
  
• Reliability Modeling – Predictive reliability assessment tools, how they compute reliability, strengths, and limitations.
  
• Improvement Options – Strategies for improving reliability, historical and emerging tactics for each strategy and how each can be represented within a predictive reliability model.
  
• Improvement Process – Build a reliability model, calibrate the model to historical data, analyze the reliability characteristics of the base system, examine the cost-effectiveness of reliability options and develop an optimized reliability improvement plan.
  
• Project Prioritization – Using reliability analysis in the budgeting process including benefit-to-cost analysis, marginal benefit-to-cost
  analysis, multiple performance metrics, risk-based metrics and the development of cost-versus-reliability curves.

Who should attend this course?
Engineers and managers associated with distribution reliability, planning, engineering and operations.

Richard E. Brown is the Senior Vice President of Operations for Quanta Technology. He is author of the book Electric Power Distribution Reliability, is a registered professional engineer and is an IEEE Fellow. He earned his BSEE, MSEE, and PhD from the University of Washington and his MBA from the University of North Carolina.

#103
Automation for the Smart Grid
Presented by: Ron Farquharson and Erich Gunther
The electric utility industry is in the midst of a very significant period of change. It seems that every few months there is another driver motivating utilities to look at technologies and standards to assist them. Over the past year the efforts of NIST, NERC, FERC, DOE and many others have added another layer of changes ranging from significant amounts of stimulus funds, a new focus on standards and planned changes to cyber security standards. Carefully selected technologies and standards implemented skillfully have the potential for great benefits in addressing these changes and mitigating many other pressure points. This course
will expose the attendees to a large amount of practical information enabling them to enhance existing programs or initiate new programs with a much better view of current standards, methods and technology options. Our EnerNex team will also convey lessons learned in recent smart grid roadmaps and implementations. In summary this course will cover smart grid principles, methods, standards, technologies and case studies.

Who should attend this course?

• Smart grid automation team members
• Utility engineering management
• Utility project and technical staff
• Senior utility engineers

Ron Farquharson is a Consultant, Utility Automation at EnerNex Corporation. He has 29 years experience in the substation control, automation and monitoring fields. Ron is actively assisting utilities in developing and justifying their smart grid technology plans. He has authored numerous papers and reports on topics related to this course. Ron is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves on the Advisory Committee for DistribuTECH.

Erich Gunther is the Chairman and CTO at EnerNex where he helps clients define their strategic direction in R&D, technology and product development. With over 20 years experience, Erich’s expertise includes utilizing communications networks and technology to improve the efficiency, operating practices and security of the electric power system. Erich is a member of the Grid Wise Architecture Council and Co-Chair of the IEEE PES Intelligent Grid Coordinating Committee.

#104
Smart Substations for the Smart Grid – Protection, Control, Communications and Substation Information Utilization by the Enterprise
Presented by: Eric A. Udren and David Boroughs
Modern integrated substations are hubs for the smart grid. Microprocessor-based protective relays and IEDs are the eyes and ears operating within these substations. They protect, control and monitor apparatus and are becoming critical data aggregation processors in the evolving smart grid communications architecture. This course examines changes in communications, protection and control (P&C) application and substation IED integration in light of new products, smart grid system management trends and NERC requirements. Topics include:

• New design and application of protection and control for T&D equipment
• Benefits and management challenges for LAN-based substations
• Substations as aggregation points for smart grid system-wide communications
• Wide area measurements for monitoring and protection of the transmission smart grid
• Planning & optimization of communications architectures and technologies for backhaul and access (last mile) networks to support smart grid traffic
• New P&C smart enterprise based substation user interfaces and maintenance approaches

Who should attend this course?
Managers and engineers responsible for:

• Application of smart grid approaches to T&D protective relaying, substation control, system-wide protection and enterprise integration
• Enterprise-wide smart grid communications, integration and data gathering
• Smart enterprise substation asset management

Eric A. Udren of Quanta Technology has contributed to the advancement of relaying and substation integration for 40 years. Eric is an IEEE Fellow, Chairman of two working groups of IEEE Power System Relaying Committees, member of NERC P&C Subcommittee and Standard Drafting Team and is active in IEC standards development.

David Boroughs, P.E, has 30 years of telecommunications experience developing wireless and wireline strategies and network designs. Projects have included backhaul, substation and feeder automation, AMI communications architecture solutions that supports operational needs, and enterprise level related needs such as voice, video, IP, and back office networking requirements.

Monday, March 22, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• Supervising planning and operations engineers
• Managers and directors for electric distribution utilities

ML Chan has assisted a large number of utilities in developing smart grid strategies and roadmaps. Such clients serve customers in U.S., Canada, Australia, Asia and China. Dr. Chan helped them in determining how to integrate intertwined enabling technologies to form a smart grid roadmap, taking into account what each utility has installed in various smart grid applications.

#202
Emerging Storage Technologies and Their Roles in our Future
Presented by: Richard Fioravanti
Storage is now being proposed to support areas such as T&D support, integration of renewables, and is considered a smart grid tool. With the DOE stimulus efforts, plus product evolution, demonstrations are now occurring in each of the potential application areas. This course is designed to help stakeholders understand the beneficial applications of storage, map which technologies are best suited for projected roles and to provide updates on the current demonstrations of technologies as well as additional advancements with emerging storage technologies. There is a growing need for utilities and IPPs to understand each of the technologies and their potential applications. In addition, there is a developing debate now occurring on how to classify storage itself, either as a transmission & distribution asset or merchant generation asset. This course will provide an educational session to help stakeholders understand the market, future directions and how the technologies may impact their companies.

Who should attend this course?

• Utility personnel & senior management
• Storage manufacturers
• Renewable developers

Richard Fioravanti has over seventeen years of experience working with emerging energy technologies in industrial and consulting roles for technologies such as fuel cells and microturbines. Currently, his consulting efforts focus on storage technologies, working with manufacturers on advanced battery and flywheel technologies for utility and PHEV applications.

#206
How to Create a Practical Smart Grid Technical Plan
Presented by: Stephen Hadden, KC Fagen and Andrew Owens
This is the first of two half-day courses that, together, teach how to PLAN and EXECUTE a smart grid strategy. The first part is technical planning; the second part (#209) is implementation. This course teaches attendees to successfully plan practical smart grid implementations that produce immediate and lasting value and become the foundation for future smart grid enhancements. Attendees gain complete familiarity with effective smart grid planning, from early strategy through business case and corporate approval of the project. Because the investment has sweeping strategic implications for the utility, success requires broad consensus within the utility and the course shows how to achieve this. The course describes smart grid benefits, how to choose which parts of smart grid to do first, IT and data management approaches and anticipating future developments with a “no regrets” strategy. It covers cyber security, the NIST Roadmap, interoperability and integration of renewables, distribution automation, AMI and customer home area networking.

Who should attend this course?
The course presumes the student is familiar with energy utility operations for investor owned, cooperative or municipal utilities:

• Utility smart grid automation planners in middle and senior management
• IT professionals needing an introduction to the technical dimensions of smart grid and its IT requirements and issues, the NIST Roadmap and cyber security
• Utility financial analysts, managers or executives responsible for the evaluation, planning, operation or financial performance of smart grid automation investment
• Smart grid equipment engineers, sales staff, installers and integrators who wish to understand the utility decision process, smart grid benefits and how they create value for the utility and its customers
• Regulators interested in understanding the benefits accruing to each of the constituencies affected by smart grid automation

Stephen Hadden brings advanced technologies expertise in metering, customer service and demand management. An Engineering Physics graduate from Cornell University, he has spent 22 years supporting North America’s most prominent utilities and AMI suppliers in addressing issues that drive AMI decisions. He publishes regularly and holds six U.S. patents.

KC Fagen brings 18 years of expertise in the design, planning, and review of controls and electrical transmission and distribution facilities. Mr. Fagen’s project management experience is complemented by his utility background. He develops load growth scenarios, planning criteria, construction work plans and long-range plans for electric utilities. Andrew Owens has a 30-year background in engineering, IT, and management. He has managed enterprise technical services and led business-critical technology initiatives in the defense, logistics and utility domains. He assesses AMI and MDM requirements, evaluates current offerings of AMI and MDM technology and guides utility clients in MDMS integration.

Monday, March 22, 2010, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Who should attend this course?
The course presumes the student is familiar with energy and water utility operations for investor owned, cooperative or municipal utilities:

• • Utility managers or executives responsible for the evaluation, operation, change management or financial performance of
• automation investment
• • Utility automation vendor engineers, sales staff, installers and integrators who wish to understand the utility decision process
• and how automation creates value for the utility
• • Regulators interested in understanding the benefits accruing to each of the constituencies affected by utility automation and
• the challenges of customer acceptance

Walter Levesque's 34 years of industry experience includes 20 years of AMR/AMI perspectives as a utility purchaser, an AMI company executive and an international industry consultant. He has consulted more than 80 utilities on AMR/AMI. His experience includes a 500,000 point AMR system deployment and 3 million point evaluation.

Stephen Hadden brings advanced technologies expertise in metering, customer service and demand management. An Engineering Physics graduate from Cornell University, he has spent 22 years supporting North America’s most prominent utilities and AMI suppliers in addressing issues that drive AMI decisions. He publishes regularly and holds six U.S. patents.

Mark Gabriel’s 20-year experience includes advanced metering and intelligent infrastructure. He provides organizational leadership and strategic planning by leveraging people, technology, products/services and competitive market positions to achieve organizational success. His recent award-winning book, Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future (Fairmont Press), addresses utility strategy related to technology and challenges.

#210
Distribution System Storm Hardening
Presented by: Richard Brown
This course shows how to cost-effectively pursue targeted distribution system hardening so that less damage occurs during major events, allowing for faster customer restoration and lower storm restoration costs. This course is based on real-world experience in Florida (hurricanes), Texas (hurricanes), the Northeast (ice storms), the Pacific Northwest (linear winds), and the Midwest (tornadoes, ice storms). Specific topics include:

• Storm Reliability – Types of major storms, classification of these storms, the types of damage common for different types of storms and typical approaches used to mitigate damage.
• Standards and Metrics – Construction standards used for distribution and how this relates to storm damage and storm hardening, including the concept of extreme weather ratings. Also covered are the standards used for tree pruning and how this relates to storm damage and storm hardening.
• Best Practices – Recent industry surveys on major storm experience, storm hardening, vegetation management and how typical industry practice related to industry best practice. This section will also discuss the role of storm response and smart grid in distribution hardening.
• Hardening Roadmap – Developing a multi-year hardening roadmap including the determination of the existing state, the setting of a desired future state and how to cost-effectively transition from the existing to future state while gaining the support of customers, regulators and other interested parties.

Who should attend this course?
Engineers and managers associated with storm planning, operations, distribution reliability, engineering and operations.

Richard E. Brown is the Senior Vice President of Operations for Quanta Technology. He is author of the book Electric Power Distribution Reliability, is a registered professional engineer, and is an IEEE Fellow. He earned his BSEE, MSEE, and PhD from the University of Washington and his MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Monday, March 22, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• How to spend the first 90 days building a project management baseline and ensuring alignment of all vendors involved in the project.
• Providing an overview of new systems such as the MDMS, DRMS, DMS and customer energy management portal.
• How to develop a systems integration roadmap and organize the project into short duration business releases.
• Provide an inventory of the typical impacts to existing systems such as the utility CIS, GIS, OMS and asset management.
• Ensuring the IT architecture is smart grid ready, as AMI communications and data is increasingly used for grid operations.

Who should attend this course?

• Utility AMI, MDMS and demand response project managers and solution architects
• Project Management Office (PMO) personnel
• Utility IT directors and management

Christopher Ash is a principal consultant with Enspiria Solutions. He has provided consulting and enterprise integration expertise in the areas of advanced metering infrastructure, meter data management systems and demand response for utilities around the world that represent in excess of 30 million meters.

Jim Savino, PMP is a Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 25 years of software development/integration and systems engineering experience. His utility industry project management experience includes planning and deploying large scale systems including AMI, MDMS, GIS, OMS, MWM, CIS, IVR and SCADA.

#204
‘Smarter Grid’ Building Blocks and Evolution: Utility Communications Planning
Presented by: Rick Schmidt and Charles Plummer
This course will provide education on important considerations, technology level trade-offs, creating the business case and processes for developing a communications plan to migrate from the present state to smart grid. Attendees will learn how to answer questions for their utility: “What’s the best backhaul communications media for our AMI/DA program? What technology is available for upgrading/replacing a mobile voice system? What’s the best way to deliver mobile data solutions? What are options for backbone media technologies and the tradeoffs for each?” Presenters will review communication requirements for utility automation and provide a media overview. The group will discuss alternatives for a scalable backbone with existing and new utility automation programs and enterprise traffic. Presenters will discuss commercial communications media vs. private and possible effects. Attendees will leave the course with a better understanding for development of a smart grid communications plan.

Who should attend this course?

• Utility decision makers at middle and upper levels of responsibility
• Managers who oversee utility applications (AMI, SCADA or DA)

Rick Schmidt leads the Utility Communication Systems group at PSE, Inc. Rick has 25 years of experience with an emphasis on the business side of technology.

Charles Plummer is the Lead Communications Consultant for PSE, Inc. He works with PSE utility clients to facilitate the evaluation, procurement and implementation of strategic infrastructure technologies following smart grid communications plans. Charles has worked in the electrical utility industry for 15 years in communications and application technologies.

#205
Distribution Planning Methods for Optimizing Smart Grid, EVs, and PV-DR into Power Delivery Systems
Presented by: H. Lee Willis and Julio Romero Aguero
Proper system planning ensures that money spent today has lasting value and fits as the system moves towards a strategic vision. Although planning criteria is a major driver of cost and system performance, many utilities do not have complete and consistent documentation or have not revisited their criteria for many years. Furthermore, the increasing use of smart grid, the adoption of electric vehicles in growing numbers, and the prospect of the widespread use of distributed rooftop solar-assist and photovoltaic generation systems, create expected future load and system scenarios that traditional methodologies and planning tools cannot handle well. This course provides an overview of the power distribution system planning process in a smart grid world, where the traditional challenge of planning with uncertain data is starting to shift to a new paradigm of planning by processing and taking advantage of all the available data provided by smart grid technologies as well as considering the impact of electric vehicle and distributed solar photovoltaic resources connected to the low and medium voltage distribution network.

Who should attend this course?

• Utility managers and professionals involved in the planning of distribution systems
• Planners and implementers of smart grid, EV, and renewable energy at utilities
• Regulators, consultants and other professionals interested in methods to integrate smart resources in local delivery systems

H. Lee Willis, P.E., is currently Senior Vice President at Quanta Technology, Raleigh, N.C. A fellow of the IEEE and author of eight books of power delivery system engineering and distributed resources, he has been an industry leader in distribution planning methodology for over thirty years.

Julio Romero Aguero is Senior Advisor at Quanta Technology. A former Commissioner of Electric Energy for the country of
Honduras, he specializes in utility strategic policy planning and power delivery planning methods.

The course will also have the participation of speakers Robert Bisson, Vice President of Engineering and Planning at Northern
Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) and Dr. Tom Osterhus, Director at Duke Energy.

#207
Substation Automation and Enterprise Data Management to Support Smart Grid: Design Issues,
Alternative Approaches and Cyber Security Considerations
Presented by: John D. McDonald and Joerg Mueller
The purpose of this course is to familiarize participants with all aspects of substation automation and its relationship with smart grid. The term intelligent electronic device (IED) is defined. The different levels of substation integration and automation are discussed. The reasons a utility would need substation automation are presented. The components of the integration and automation architecture are discussed with respect to their technical issues. This discussion flushes out the sensitive, controversial issues that need to be addressed by a utility when implementing substation automation. Five different general vendor approaches to substation integration and automation are contrasted, providing the participants tremendous insight into the decisions vendors have made with their system and product approaches. The various industry groups writing standards in substation automation are discussed, and recommendations are given for the predominant standards to be considered. The methodology to build the business case for substation automation is given, including a sample case study. The characteristics and interface issues associated with IEDs is addressed, since the integration architecture is only as good as the integration capabilities of the IEDs themselves. Substation automation approaches in North America, Europe and the Middle East are contrasted in 12 critical design areas. Cyber security considerations will be discussed. Lastly, reference material is provided to the participants at the end of the seminar material.

Who should attend this course?

• Engineers and managers responsible for planning and cost-justifying substation automation or smart grid
• Engineers responsible for designing and implementing a substation automation or smart grid project, or contributing to its design and implementation
• Communications engineers working on a substation automation or smart grid project
• Operators and technicians working with substation automation systems or smart grid projects
• Project managers
• Engineers and sales personnel working for suppliers and integrators of hardware and software products used in substation automation, smart grid and related fields

John D. McDonald, P.E., General Manager, Marketing for GE Energy T&D, is responsible for global marketing strategy for automation, smart metering, GIS, power delivery and smart grid. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Past President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), and Past Chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee. He has published 31 papers and co-authored three books, including being Editor-in-Chief and Substation Integration and Automation Chapter author, for the book Electric Power Substations Engineering, Second Edition, published by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in 2007.

Joerg Mueller is a Senior Consultant with KEMA Consulting with more than twelve years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to joining KEMA Consulting GmbH in Bonn, he worked with ABB and Siemens as line and project manager in various assignments throughout the world. Currently he is supporting clients in Europe and the Middle East in distribution automation, scheduling systems, SCADA/EMS systems and high voltage substation projects.

#208
Distribution Automation – Smart Feeders in a Smart Grid World
Presented by: Bob Uluski, Hahn Tram and Farid Katiraei
Electric utilities everywhere are seeking to deploy a smart grid strategy that uses advanced sensor, communication, and distributed generation and storage technologies to improve the reliability, efficiency and quality of the power system. Distribution automation (DA) and distribution management systems (DMS) are vital elements in the effective deployment of these technologies. This unique full day seminar will include practical discussion of the role of DA/DMS in the utility’s overall smart grid strategy. Attendees will hear about the latest equipment and systems, up-to-date vendor offerings, lessons learned by utilities that have already implemented DA/DMS, interactions between DA/DMS and AMI, impact of distributed energy resources, and other information needed to make smart decisions about DA/DMS. Specific topics include: DA/DMS functions (including Volt VAR control and fault location isolation and service restoration), system architecture, communication alternatives, current vendor offerings, ongoing research activities, the business case for DA/DMS, implementation and procurement strategies, and more.

Who should attend this course?

• Electric utility executives overseeing smart grid initiatives
• Distribution engineers and engineering managers
• Distribution operation managers
• Distribution SCADA and IT personnel
• Persons leading or planning to lead a smart grid initiative and/or DA/DMS implementation project

Bob Uluski of Quanta Technology has assisted electric utilities worldwide in planning and implementing DA and DMS systems. Bob has helped teach the DA course at DistribuTECH for nine years and has written numerous articles about the DA business case. He is also lead author for the NRECA’s guidebook to implementing DA.

Hahn Tram, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at Quanta Technology, has helped several U.S. utilities successfully develop strategic initiatives in Advanced Metering Infrastructure, smart grid, and demand response to build the foundation for utility and smart grid of the future – from strategic implementation roadmap to business case and regulatory application, and from enterprise solution architecture and technology selection to process reengineering and system integration.

Farid Katiraei of Quanta Technology has been involved in research and demonstration projects involving various DG technologies including solar photovoltaic, wind turbine and hydro power generation as well as diesel and/or biogas engines. He is an active member of IEEE, and a steering committee member of international collaboration on microgrids.

#211
IEC 61850 For End Users
Presented by: Christoph Brunner and George Schimmel
This course will provide an overview of the IEC 61850 standard for communications networks for power utility automation. It will provide insight view on the different aspects of IEC 61850 that are of relevance for a utility engineer that intends to use IEC 61850 communication for the utility automation.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Basic principles of IEC 61850
• Application examples
• The elements of the data model including real examples
• Information exchange – how to retrieve information from devices
• Engineering – use the configuration language to specify and design the substation
• Ethernet networks – what is of relevance for IEC 61850?
• IEC 61850 user community

Who should attend this course?

• Utility personnel
• System integrators

Christoph Brunner is a utility industry professional with over 25 years of industry experience with both knowledge across several areas within the utility industry and of technologies from the automation Industry. Christoph is President and Chief Technology Officer of UTInnovation in Switzerland. He is convenor of the IEC TC57 working group 10 that is preparing the IEC 61850 standard.

George Schimmel is a Software Expert and CTO of Triangle MicroWorks. He was Editor of TASE.2, is one of the Editors of IEC 61850 and he is involved in the development of communication stacks for IEC 61850.

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