DOE, BPA and WSU Prep Power Engineers for Smart Grid

July 19, 2012
BPA recently partnered with Washington State University and the Northwest Workforce Training Center for Electric Power Engineering to develop a series of videos that will be used in new training courses for power engineers as part of a sponsored nationwide smart grid workforce training project sponsored by the Department of Energy.

BPA recently partnered with Washington State University and the Northwest Workforce Training Center for Electric Power Engineering to develop a series of videos that will be used in new training courses for power engineers as part of a sponsored nationwide smart grid workforce training project sponsored by the Department of Energy.

The videos look at three common high-voltage transmission phenomena: corona, electrostatic induction and conductor or power line sag.

"These videos give engineers, students and anyone curious about power distribution a nearly exclusive look at our extraordinary lab and the dynamics of high-voltage transmission," says electrical engineer Jeff Hildreth. The tests were conducted at BPA's High Voltage Lab and Mechanical Lab at the Ross Complex in Vancouver, Wash.

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