The International Labour Organization (ILO), with funding provided by the Government of Sweden, is supporting the Kafue Gorge Regional Training Centre (KGRTC) to implement the Skills for Energy in Southern Africa (SESA) Project. This is a three-and-a-half-year intervention with the overall development objective of increasing the uptake of renewable energy, energy efficiency and regional energy integration through skills development in Zambia and the SADC region. It is expected that the project will strengthen KGRTC’s capacity as a Centre of Excellence for energy training in the region and significantly increase the number of power technicians, engineers and managers that are skilled in renewable energy, energy efficiency and regional energy integration. The project will be implemented through a Public-Private Public Development Partnership (PPDP) approach.

This Power Quality and System Stability course is an introduction to the major concepts and issues in Power Quality Management and System Stability. 

The course will be facilitated by well-experienced specialists with extensive experience in power quality systems and power system stability from Unipower and Solvina of Sweden.

At the end of the training programme, course participants shall be able to:

1. Introduction to Power quality and System Stability;
2. Power Quality Disturbances;
3. Measurement and Monitor of Power Quality;
4. Analysis and Mitigate Power Quality Disturbances;
5. Configure and set up Power Quality Analysers;
6. Classification of Power System Stability;
7. Control of System Stability

Day One: General Theory and Introduction

1. Power Quality overview

   a. Concepts and Theory

   b. Financial Consequences of Power Quality disturbances

   c. Measurement of Power Quality

   d. Power Quality monitoring

2. Power Quality and its importance

   a. Power Quality Disturbances

    

3. High Level Classification of Power Quality

   a. Power Quality Events

   b. Power Quality Variations

4. Power Quality Variations (Harmonics)

   a. What is Harmonics

   b. Harmonics estimation

   c. Root Cause of harmonics

   d. Mitigation of harmonics

   e. Standards about harmonics

Day Two: Power Quality

1. Power Quality Variations (Frequency)

   a. What is Frequency Deviation

   b. Frequency estimation

   c. Root Cause of Frequency Deviation

   d. Mitigation of Frequency Deviation

   e. Standards about Frequency Deviation

2. Power Quality Variations (Flicker)

   a. What is Flicker

   b. Flicker estimation

   c. Root Cause of Flicker

   d. Mitigation of Flicker

   e. Standards about Flicker

3. Power Quality Variations (Unbalance)

   a. What is Unbalance

   b. Unbalance estimation

   c. Root Cause of Unbalance

   d. Mitigation of Unbalance

   e. Standards about Unbalance

Day Three: Power System Stability

1. Power Quality Events (Voltage Dip)

   a. What is Voltage Dip

   b. Voltage Dip Estimation and Triggering Methods

   c. Classification of Voltage Dip

   d. Root Cause of Voltage Dip

   e. Consequence of Voltage Dip

   f. How Voltage Dip travels in Power System

   g. Locationing of Voltage Dip

   h. Mitigation of Voltage Dip

   i. Standards about Voltage Dip

2. Power Quality Events (Interruption)

   a. What is Interruption

   b. Interruption Estimation and Triggering Methods

   c. Classification of Interruption

   d. Root Cause of Interruption

   e. Consequence of Interruption

   f. How Interruptions travels in Power System

   g. Locationing of Interruption

   h. Mitigation of Interruption

   i. Standards about Transient

Day Four: Power Quality

1. Power Quality Events (Transient)

   a. What is Transient

   b. Transient Estimation and Triggering Methods

   c. Classification of Transient

   d. Root Cause of Transient

   e. Locationing of Transient

   f. How Transient travels in Power System

   g. Mitigation of Transient

   h. Standards about Transient

2. Power Quality Events (Swell)

   a. What is Swell

   b. Swell Estimation and Triggering Methods

   c. Root Cause of Swell

   d. Consequence of Swell

   e. How Swell travels in Power System

   f. Locationing of Swell

   g. Mitigation of Swell

   h. Standards about Swell

3. Thunderstorm

   a. How thunder hits the lines

   b. Consequence of Thunder

4. New Topics in Power Quality

   a. AI and Power Systems

   b. AI and Power Quality

5. Experience of Customers

6. Mitigation Companies

Day Five:

1. Renewable Energies

   f. Different types of Renewable Energies

   g. How to assemble a Solar Pannal based Energy production for a household

2.  Power System Stability classification

   h. Frequency Stability – Causes and Consequences

   i. Voltage Stability – Causes and Consequences

   j. Angular Stability – Causes and Consequences

3.  Renewable Energies and Power System Stability

4. Frequency stability

   a. Power Balance

   b. Control

   c. Mitigation

5. Voltage Stability

   d. Reactive Power

   e. Control

6.  Angular stability

   f. Power System Stabilizers

   g. Tuning and optimization

Managers and engineers responsible for power quality, power system stability and grid operation.