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This course explores the design and operation of medium- and high-voltage switchyards used in substations, energy production facilities, data centers and large industrial sites.
Participants will learn how to optimize switchyards for electric grid resilience and understand the importance of integrating them with microprocessor and industrial control technologies.
The course features insights from Prescient’s subject matter experts — professionals who investigate grid-impacting incidents, serve as forensic engineers when components fail and develop advanced models to address future grid challenges.
Attendees will also examine how switchyard configurations can maximize return on investment for the facilities they serve.
This three-day course will describe:
- Physical electrical considerations
- Switchyard configurations
- Cost-benefit analysis of each configuration
Benefits and Learning Outcomes
- Define configurations for medium- and high-voltage switchyards to maximize ROI.
- Understand how switchyards can be designed to enhance resilience.
- Apply recovery strategies in response to storms, threat actors and equipment aging.
- Analyze design base threats and recovery strategies.
- Evaluate the criteria used to initiate changes to switchyards.
- Create an action plan to meet customer expectations in 2050.
Course Outline/Topics
Day 1: Switchyard Configurations
Discussion of the components that are assembled to create switchyards for:
- Single Breaker – Single Bus
- Double Breaker – Double Bus
- Triple Breaker – Double Bus
- Ring Bus
- Single Breaker – Sectionalized Bus
- Double Breaker – Sectionalized Double Bus
- Triple Breaker – Sectionalized Double Bus
- Sectionalized Ring Bus
At the conclusion of Day 1, participants will have an in-depth understanding of the configuration of components in medium- and high-voltage switchyards.
Day 2: Physical Electrical Considerations
- Bus and bay current ratings
- Rigid bus design
- Flexible bus design
- Underground getaways
- Overhead getaways
- Low profile switchyards
- Structural and electrical forces
- Grounding
- Surge protection
- Short circuit protection
Day 3: Cost-benefit analysis
- Traditional open air switchyards
- Low profile open air switchyards
- Traditional gas insulated switchyards
- Low profile gas insulated switchyards
- Solid dielectric insulated switchyards
- Pressurized air insulated switchyards
- Sabotage resilient switchyards
Who Should Attend
This course is designed to provide the knowledge needed to design and operate resilient medium- and high-voltage switchyards. Course content will appeal to executives, managers and engineers at any stage in their career as well as analysts, coordinators, project managers and regulatory officials.