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September
14-16, 2004 - Brown Palace Hotel/Comfort Inn Complex - Denver, CO |
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Course Description: |
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This course addresses the planning, engineering, and asset management of aging power delivery system infrastructure. The approach focuses on the five factors contributing to poor performance in older systems and methods to mitigate their effects.
The combination of these factors presents an incredible challenge to a utility faced with customer growth, a gradually increasing per capita demand for power and greater demands for reliable service. |
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What Attendees Will Learn: |
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This intensive 2 1⁄2day course will provide participants with a solid understanding of the basic issues and analytical methods for identifying and addressing aging infrastructure problems. Attendees will learn:
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Course Instructor |
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Greg Welch Greg Welch has over 30 years of experience in engineering, planning, and management in the electrical utility industry. He is a co-author of Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures, Marcel Dekker, 2001. Mr. Welch formed Triangle Power Systems Consulting in 2003 after working for ABB, Inc. as an executive consultant. As an executive consultant, he led client teams that developed revised power delivery system designs that reduced capital and maintenance costs without compromising reliability and served as an advisor to executives in charge of improving the operating condition of a power delivery systems. He also provided technical support for clients in preparation for rate case litigation and in development of innovative, cost saving approaches to reliability improvement. Prior to joining ABB, Mr. Welch was Vice President, Technical Services and Supply Management for the Transmission and Distribution business unit of Commonwealth Edison. He also was manager of Distribution Planning and Reliability for Commonwealth Edison. He has extensive experience in generation planning, transmission planning, distribution planning, forecasting, and the practical aspects of operating an electric power delivery system. |
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