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NESC 2012 Review Seminar

December 18, 2011 By JeffM 1 Comment
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Major Changes and General Overview of the 2012 National Electrical Safety Code  - The What

The Major Changes and General Overview of the 2012 NESC® seminar is a two day class focusing on the major changes in the 2012 Edition of the National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®). The class will cover in detail the major changes to the NESC® 2012 Edition and also provide a general overview of each part of the NESC® (Day 1). Applying the Code to day-to-day work will be stressed by focusing on practical NESC® examples and applications (Day 2). The class is intended for engineers, staking technicians, power linemen, communications linemen, safety personnel and inspectors. Prior working knowledge of the NESC® is not required.

The class includes ample time for questions and attendees are encouraged to share their NESC® applications with the entire class. The presentations are rich in graphics and practical applications. Learning the changes in the NESC® is a must for personnel responsible for operating a safe utility system.

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David J Marne will be the speaker – The who

David J. Marne, P.E. is a registered professional electrical engineer. Mr. Marne is the author of McGraw-Hill’s National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®) Handbook and is a nationally recognized speaker on the NESC®. He serves on NESC® Subcommittee 4, Overhead Lines – Clearances. He is company president and senior electrical engineer for Marne and Associates, Inc. in Missoula, Montana where he specializes in National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®) training, OSHA training, engineering design training, and expert witness services related to the NESC®, OSHA, and CA GO95.

Mr. Marne has over 28 years of experience in the utility industry engineering and managing transmission and distribution line projects, substation projects, electrical system planning studies, joint use (power and communication) projects, and providing training and expert witness services.

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Doubletree Spokane – The Where

The event will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Spokane.

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Spokane City Center
322 North Spokane Falls Court
Spokane,  Washington
United States

The DoubleTree has informed us that they are very booked during the time of the seminar, however they have agreed to hold rooms for attendees.  These rooms are first come, first served.  Please mention this event when booking.

January 30-31 – The When

The seminar will be held on January 30th and 31st starting at 8am each day and ending at 5pm.

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Cost

The seminar will have the following cost structure with an early bird ending on January 6th, 2012.

IEEE Member

Early Bird – $550
After Jan 6th – $580

Non-IEEE Member

Early Bird – $600
After Jan 6th – $630

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PES – Plain Talk in Las Vegas NV

October 31, 2011 By Nathan Leave a Comment
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The IEEE Power & Energy Society will be holding a series of Power Industry Education courses in Las Vegas in December. These courses are called “Plain Talk About the Electric Power Industry,” and are a 3-day series of courses targeted to professionals who work in or with the industry. More information can be found at the event webpage.

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Grounding – Follow Up

September 27, 2011 By Nathan Leave a Comment
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For those that missed Bret Staker’s presentation on grounding, he has provided a PDF of the slides and a Guide to earth resistance testing.

Grounding and Ground Testing
Getting Down to Earth

IEEE Spokane would like to thank Bret for taking time out of his hectic travel week and speaking to our group.

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Auxiliary DC Control Power – David Wilson

September 11, 2011 By Nathan Leave a Comment
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David L. Wilson of McLaren Inc will present at the IEEE dinner meeting on October 20th, at Conley’s Restaurant.

The most critical component of a protection, control, and monitoring system is the auxiliary DC control power system. Failure of the DC control power can render fault detection devices unable to detect faults, breakers unable to trip for faults, local and remote indication to become inoperable, etc. The auxiliary DC control power system consists of the battery, battery charger, distribution system, switching and protective devices, and any monitoring equipment. Proper sizing, design, and maintenance of the components that make up the auxiliary DC control system are required. Many references for stationary battery system design address only a specific battery technology making it difficult to compare different types of batteries for their overall suitability to substation application. Also, most references do not address the particular requirements of the electrical substation environment and duty cycle. This presentation provides an overall review of things to consider in designing the auxiliary DC control power system for an electrical substation.

David L. Wilson received his B.S. degree from Washington State University in 1978. He has diverse experience in the fields of energy R&D, aerospace, medical and commercial electronics manufacturing and electrical power system and component sales. He is co-owner of McLaren Inc., a manufacturers’ representative firm, with technical sales responsibilities for (15) manufacturers including Storage Battery Systems and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. He has (17) years experience selling and advising on utility battery system applications.

Time: Social time will start at 5:30 p.m. and the Dinner will start at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Conley’s Restaurant, 12618 E Sprague Avenue Spokane, Washington

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Here is the iCal Link; http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/feed/meeting_ical/8269

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Circuit Modeling – Cooper Power Systems

November 1, 2010 By Nathan Leave a Comment
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Bruce Meyer of Cooper Power Systems will present at the IEEE meeting on November 17th, at Conley’s Restaurant.

The CYMDIST Distribution System Analysis Program is designed for modeling electric distribution systems under different operating conditions and scenarios. The features and capabilities are many, but include the following:

  • Power flow and voltage drop analysis
  • Fault flow analysis
  • Voltage drop analysis with profiles
  • Network planning
  • Substation and sub-network modeling and analysis
  • Protective device coordination

The new features of CYMDIST include Distributed Generation (DG) Modeling and Transient Stability Analysis among others. With the introduction of co-generation at the sub-transmission and the distribution levels, the transient stability problem is now becoming a concern at the distribution level, and when the penetration level of distributed generation (DG) becomes high enough, the DG units will then start to influence the dynamic behavior of the power system as a whole. In a distribution network, poor stability of DG’s will result in oscillations of the power and the frequency, false tripping of the network protection and adversely affect the quality of supply to the customers. CYMDIST 5.0 extends the modeling and analysis of distributed resources including an indepth modeling to solve transient stability issues.

Bruce Meyer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and later his MS in Manufacturing and Management Engineering from University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He has worked for ABB as a design engineer, MagneTek as a marketing manager for voltage regulator product, and started with Cooper Power Systems as a Distribution Protection Engineer in 1999. During his tenure at Cooper, he has worked in international marketing for overhead distribution switchgear and domestic marketing for underground switchgear. His latest position is as a Sales Engineer for the Inland Northwest territory.

Time: Social time will start at 5:30 p.m. and the Dinner will start at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Conley’s Restaurant, 12618 E Sprague Avenue Spokane, Washington

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Here is the iCal Link; http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/feed/meeting_ical/3617

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Distribution System Analysis Presentation – Cooper Power System

May 14, 2010 By Nathan Leave a Comment
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Bruce Meyer of Cooper Power Systems will present at the IEEE meeting on May 19, at Conley’s Restaruant.

Overvoltage protection of distribution systems has changed much since protection was employed.  The first widespread use of surge arresters used a gapped structure and Silicon Carbide semiconductor material.  These were replaced with straight Metal Oxide Varister  (MOV) construction without a gap, and later an MOV with a series internal gap.  The latest overvoltage protection builds upon the gapped MOV design with a capacitance layer that leads to the lowest discharge voltages across the arrester, the highest margin of protection, and an infinite temporary overvoltage capability.

Bruce Meyer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and later his MS in Manufacturing and Management Engineering from University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.  He has worked for ABB as a design engineer, MagneTek as a marketing manager for voltage regulator product, and started with Cooper Power Systems as a Distribution Protection Engineer in 1999.  During his tenure at Cooper, he has worked in international marketing for overhead distribution switchgear and domestic marketing for underground switchgear.  His latest position is as a Sales Engineer for the Inland Northwest territory.

Time: Social time will start at 5:30 p.m. and the Dinner will start at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Conley’s Restaruant, 12618 E Sprague Avenue  Spokane, Washington

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Bruce Meyer
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Field Trip to Lab-Volt Lab/ZagOps Center

February 12, 2010 By JeffM 2 Comments
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Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Location: Meet at Herak 246 Conference Room

Tour Schedule: 6:00 – 7:00 PM – social hour, pizza

7:00 – 8:00 PM – (tour)

Reserve by February 15

Email to omill@ieee.org , or call Olga Mill at (509)981-6015.

Parking

Attendees can park in the large parking lot located north of College Hall (Administration Building) that is marked for Faculty and Administration. Campus security has been advised of our meeting. The link to the parking map is

http://www.gonzaga.edu/About/CampusMap/GU_CampusParking_09-10.pdf.

This map also shows the location of the Herak Center and the PACCAR Center.

Tour Description:

A tour of the Lab-Volt lab in the Paccar Center will be held at 7:00 PM.  This will be followed by a tour of the ZagOps Center in the Herak Center.

According to gonzaga.edu, the Lab-Volt power simulators allow students to simulate power system behavior under both normal and fault conditions. The Gonzaga University PACCAR Center for Applied Science is an advanced laboratory for robotics and artificial vision research.

The ZagOps Center is used for training power system operators in the Electrical Grid Operations course that is a part of Gonzaga’s Transmission and Distribution Program.

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