Thank you to everyone who attended the training at PowerGEM in June 2019. We will be planning additional training sessions at PowerGEM in the future. Please contact us if you have any follow up questions about training.
On-site Training
PowerGEM provides specialized on site training for all of our Power Systems Analysis Software.
Our training is provided by engineers with extensive experience working with large scale production models utilized throughout the United States by Utilities, RTOs, and ISOs. PowerGEM prefers using client data for on site training, or we can provide a sample data set. We believe that using full scale client data provides the most efficient ways to learn software while solving real life problems. Using 75,000 buses LF cases and 500+ contingencies is common during our training. PowerGEM will work with the client to customize training agenda to address the most critical client needs and applications of interest. We conduct multiple on site trainings per year with the typical duration being 2.5 - 4 days.
Short Online Training Sessions
PowerGEM can provide short (a few hours) gotoMeeting/WebEx training sessions focused on a few specific software features. We can focus on any particular application, help troubleshoot specific issues, or we can help to setup specialized analysis.
PowerGEM provides the following videos to all users who have licensed out software. Please contact us if you have registered PowerGEM software and there are additional topics you would like to see covered
This video is intended to orient the first time TARA user after the program is installed. ("What do I do first? Where am I ?") The computing structure and fundamentals of the TARA interface and relation to the engine, scripts, and log file are introduced
This video introduces the sample system used for later data editing and applications examples in other videos. Tabular and one-line data visualization is covered, including the TARA Bus Diagram Function.
TARA data requirements and input data formats are introduced. The objective is to make users comfortable with all fields in the TARA input file menu, describe required versus optional data, and review when each input file is needed. A discussion of monitored elements, contingencies, flowgates, and interfaces may be helpful to TARA users and engineers newer to power systems analysis.
The different formats that TARA supports. Loading a case to TARA and checking a case. Handling multiple cases as an input, and producing an output case from the viewer with changes (load scaling), inch files
This video shows how to review defined contingencies, how to check contingency modeling details, and how to analyze individual contingency calculations. This lays the groundwork for other contingency analysis applications
Using DFAX to see the relative effect of generation shifts. Using DFAX to see the relative effect of transfers, and other DFAX uses. Linear transfer analysis. When are DFAX valid to use and when are they invalid?
Video discussing the configuration of batch automation in the TARAViewer. Batch automation can be used to run multiple analysis, such as N-1 contingency analysis, in parallel or series.
