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PDA - Training Services

Power Delivery Associates training team is well known for its broad array of training programs and educational services to keep your people on top of their game. Enroll them in our classes today and enable your team to upgrade their skills and enhance your customer and energy delivery services.

We currently provide these training opportunities in over 15 states through cooperative statewide agencies and regional service organizations such as TVPPA. Find one near you and join us or urge your local training aggregators to contact us to schedule a meeting today.

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Line Design Program:

  • Overhead Line Design and Staking
    Provided as a three- or four- tiered series designed to educate your distribution design technicians in the art and science of utility pole line design.
  • Underground Power Design
    A two-level series that educates students in underground power distribution design - from single spans to multi-phased commercial and industrial situations.
  • Advanced Line Design
    Utilizes the knowledge gained in the Overhead and Underground Line Design courses, and the expected on-the-job experience, with the broad ranging diversity involved in designing for multiple circuit pole lines, very large conductors, and other extreme design situations.
  • 2007 NESC Update Seminar
    This one-day seminar breaks down the changes in the latest National Electric Safety Code in an easily understood manner.

New Courses and Seminars Now Enrolling:

  • Line Design and Staking Concepts for Lineworkers
    Consists of a one-day seminar to allow utility line workers to gain a breath of information and an understanding of the process and practice required to bring aerial and underground distribution power lines to their ready-to-build state.
  • Distribution: Capacitors, Regulators & Circuit Protection

A two day course that educates students in various types of capacitors, regulators and circuit protection devices, and how these devices are used on a utility’s system. Topics include AC Theory, capacitor currents, capacitor banks, types of and functions of regulators, circuit protection operation and terms, reclosers, sectionalizers, cutouts and fuse coordination. Students will learn design and proper use and maintenance of capacitors, regulators and circuit protection devices.

  • Distributed Generation:  An Overview

This four day course provides students with an overview of distributed generation from purchase and design to install and maintenance in utilities. Topics include generator sizing, purchasing equipment, planning and design, installation, and equipment and site maintenance.

 

  • Underground Pad Mount Inspection Training

A one day seminar designed to provide students with knowledge necessary to perform inspections of underground distribution systems. Students will learn about pad mounts and vault equipment, equipment maintenance requirements, transformers (pad mount, live front and 3-phase), various vault systems, secondary pedestals, and other equipment encountered on underground systems. Topics include exterior inspection, opening equipment and clearance, interior inspection and documentation and reporting.

 

  • Utility Safety – Overview

Designed for all personnel working in or with a utility. This one day seminar provides a general overview of utility safety needs and responsibilities at all levels and focuses on creating a culture of safety in a utility. The student will learn the importance of adherence to safety procedures in the utility industry, the importance of putting safety first and the individual’s role in creating a safe working environment.

Other One-Day Seminars Available Now:

  • Metering
  • Flagging & Roadside Setup
  • Transformers
  • First Aid/CPR

Please email us for additional information or about scheduling your training.

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