May 13-14, 2025 | Lake Mary, FL
Instructors: Terry Nielsen & Travis Rouillard
Course Credits: 16 CEHs – The Power Systems Seminars have been approved by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers for CEHs.
Overview: This seminar is designed for utility professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge of implementing and optimizing Outage Management Systems (OMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), and Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) to improve grid resilience. Participants will explore how ADMS integrates existing systems into a unified platform, enhancing real-time situational awareness, grid automation, and outage response. The course will also examine how DERMS enables utilities to effectively manage the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources, ensuring grid stability and flexibility.
Target Participants:
- Control Center Operations
- Utility Field Crew Management
- Grid Modernization Leadership
- Distribution Planning Engineers
- Utility OMS, DMS, DERMS users
- Utility Distribution Operations Personnel
- Customer Engagement and Public Relations Professionals
- Demand Response and Distributed Energy Resource Program Managers
- Utility personnel involved in OMS, DMS, and DERMS procurement and implementation
Course Outline: Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) Fundamentals
- ADMS Background
- Distribution SCADA
- Switching Order Management
- Load Forecasting and Load Allocation
- Unbalanced Power Flow
- Distribution System State Estimation (DSSE)
- Volt/VAR Optimization (VVO)
- Fault Location, Isolation and Service Restoration (FLISR)
- Optimal Network Reconfiguration
- Training Simulator
- Outage Management Fundamentals
- Outage Prioritization and Estimated Restoration Times
- Project Implementation
- On-Going Maintenance
- Training and Organization Change Management
- DER Functions in ADMS
- ADMS Procurement
- ADMS Data Modeling
- Integration and System Architecture
- Cyber Security Considerations
- Using AMI
- Distribution Automation
- Data Analytics
- Damage Assessment
- Emergency Management
Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) Fundamentals
- History of DERMS
- Operational use cases
- Solution types and vendor options
- Required functionality
- Registration & modeling
- Device management
- Forecasting
- Dispatching
- Measurement & verification
- Settlement
- DERMS maturity model
- Industry case studies