Electric Utility Distribution Reliability Management

Course Number: E-4056
Credit: 4 PDH
Subject Matter Expert: Lee Layton, P.E.
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Overview

In Electric Utility Distribution Reliability Management, you'll learn ...

  • How electric system reliability is measured and managed
  • What utilities are doing to improve reliability
  • How reliability indices are calculated
  • Practical management standards to ensure that reliability goals are achieved

Overview

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Credit: 4 PDH

Length: 67 pages

This course explains how electric system reliability is measured, managed, and what utilities are doing to improve reliability. The course provides detailed explanations of how reliability indices are calculated and gives examples of actions utilities may take to improve reliability as well as practical management standards to ensure that reliability goals are achieved.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the current status of electric distribution reliability in the U.S.
  • Define electric system reliability.
  • Explain how electric reliability is measured.
  • Classify reliability indices as system-, customer-, or load-related.
  • Distinguish among SAIDI, CAIDI, and SAIFI.
  • Calculate major event day exceptions.
  • Identify the leading causes of distribution outages.
  • Develop goals for selected leading causes of outages.
  • Apply management concepts to support continued reliability.
  • Explain how power quality affects reliability.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 30 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.

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Length: 67 pages

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