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1101 - Grid Dynamics - Control Performance Compliance
Effective monitoring and management of control performance is the cornerstone of reliability. It is important to be able to both understand and apply NERC and regional standards in carrying out control performance requirements.
This course is intended as a review of NERC Control Performance requirements. The concepts and applications presented throughout the course should familiarize you with each policy and standard.
1102 - Emergency Operations NERC & Regional Coordinating Authority : Eastern Interconnection
This course is intended to emphasize the importance of clear communication and coordination while carrying out emergency operations. As you progress through this course you will be asked to reflect on the outlined concepts and asked to apply those concepts to real world examples provided throughout each lesson.
This course is intended to correspond with NERC and CE standards and the standards of the regional coordinating authority and is intended for training purposes .
1103 - Grid Dynamics High Voltage, Transmission, Safety, & Power System Ops
Safety is a frame of mind, personal commitment, awareness, and safety compliance based upon knowledge, training and experience. The safety of employees, field personnel, and even the safety of the public depend upon your conscientious and disciplined use of safe work practices in each of your day-to-day operations.
This course will discuss safety procedure requirements for high voltage and power systems operations and will allow you to engage with the material by participating in training exercises requiring the application of operations safety procedures.
1104 - Grid Dynamics - Synchronizing Islands
Synchronizing islands is critical to system restoration. During this course you will learn how islanding occurs, methods of island synchronization and how to handle underfrequency and undervoltage occurring in electrical systems.
You will also review NERC standards and their applicability to the control and restoration of an island.
1105 - Grid Dynamics - Undervoltage and Underfrequency
This course is intended as an introduction to the concepts of underfrequency and undervoltage. During this lesson you will be asked to relate these concepts to NERC and regional coordinating authority standards and to apply your knowledge of these relationships by answering a variety of questions.
By the end of this lesson you should understand the different roles and relationships underfrequency and undervoltage maintain with many workplace practices.
It is suggested that you review the NERC Glossary of Terms prior to beginning this module.
1106 - Grid Dynamics - Voltage Control
During this course, you will become familiar with both the NERC and WECC requirements concerning voltage control.
Voltage control plays a substantial role in determining the success of electrical operations. As a result it is important to study voltage relationships and the impact of these relationships on various types of electrical systems handling various types of voltages.
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Electric Power
America – and much of the world -- is becoming increasingly electrified. Today, more than half of the electricity generated in the United States comes from coal. For the foreseeable future, coal will continue to be the dominant fuel used for electric power production. The low cost and abundance of coal is one of the primary reasons why consumers in the United States benefit from some of the lowest electricity rates of any free-market economy.
The Department’s Office of Fossil Energy is working on ways to keep coal in America’s electricity future. The key challenge is to remove the environmental objections to the use of coal in tomorrow’s power plants. New technologies being developed in the Fossil Energy program could virtually eliminate the sulfur, nitrogen, and mercury pollutants released when coal is burned. It may also be possible to capture greenhouse gases emitted from coal-fired power plants and prevent them from contributing to global warming concerns.
Research is also underway to increase the fuel efficiency of coal-fueled power plants. Today’s plants convert only a third of coal’s energy potential to electricity. New technologies in Energy’s Fossil Energy program could nearly double efficiency levels in the next 10-15 years. Higher efficiencies mean even more affordable electricity and fewer greenhouse gases.
While coal is the nation’s major fuel for electric power, natural gas is the fastest growing fuel. More than 90 percent of the power plants to be built in the next 20 years will likely be fueled by natural gas. Natural gas is also likely to be a primary fuel for distributed power generators – mini-power plants that would be sited close to where the electricity is needed.
Energy’s Fossil Energy program is developing natural gas-powered fuel cells for future distributed generation applications. Fuel cells use hydrogen that can be extracted from natural gas or perhaps in the future from biomass or coal.
Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy sponsors R&D programs aimed at maintaining the operating capability of the nation’s existing nuclear power plants and developing the next generation of nuclear technologies. Nuclear energy is our nation's largest source of emission-free electricity. The 103 U.S. nuclear units supply about 20 percent of the electricity produced in the United States – second only to coal as a fuel source. The Nuclear Energy program is working to develop cost-efficient technologies that further enhance nuclear safety, minimize the generation of nuclear waste, and further reduce the risk of proliferation.
The United States’ electricity infrastructure is one of the greatest engineering marvels of the 20th century. However, to meet the rising electric power demand of the 21st century, significant improvements in America’s electric system are necessary. Blackouts serve as a powerful reminder of the critical role electricity plays in the everyday lives of people. The mission of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability is to lead national effort to modernize the electric grid, enhance security and reliability of the energy infrastructure, and facilitate recovery from disruptions to the energy supply.
In addition, the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability seeks to develop new technologies for the storage of energy and the transmission of energy that will contribute to energy efficiency of the electric industry. For instance, the copper wires used in typical transmission lines lose a percentage of the electricity passing through them because of resistance, which causes the wires to heat up. But "superconducting" materials have no resistance, and if they are used to transmit electricity in the future, very little of the electricity will be lost.
For statistical information relating to electricity it produces, visit the Energy Information Administration.
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