trainings / Educations
VPE Training Section is always available to hold scheduled and customized engineering trainings and vocational educations.
We render standard electrical power and automation trainings as well as renewable energies including design and economic evaluation of Photovoltaic Solar Power Plants, online or in person. Trainees will be granted certificate of completion for each course by VPE and/or our international partners.
Training Course: Photovoltaic Solar Power Plants Design
This is a comprehensive application course on PV solar power plants from A to Z.
The first part of the training includes the definitions, concepts and fundamentals in PV solar systems.
The second part covers detailed technical review of main equipment in PV solar power plants: PV modules and new technologies, solar inverters, charge controllers, batteries, solar tracking systems, solar cables, protection in PV systems and manual calculation steps in design of PV power plants.
The third part is the training of photovoltaic software "PVsyst" and design of all types of PV solar systems from Residential to Commercial to Industrial to Utility-scale, grid-connected (on-grid) or Stand-alone (off-grid) systems.
Training Course: Photovoltaic Solar systems Fundamentals
This course covers fundamentals in PV solar systems in two parts. The first part of the training includes the definitions, concepts and fundamentals in PV solar systems. The second part covers detailed technical review of main equipment in PV solar power plants:
- PV modules and new technologies
- solar inverters
- charge controllers
- batteries
- solar tracking systems
- solar cables
- protection in PV systems
- and manual calculation steps in design of PV power plants
Training Course: PVsyst Photovoltaic Software
The course is a complete training of photovoltaic software "PVsyst" as well as design of all types of PV solar systems from Residential to Commercial to Industrial to Utility-scale, grid-connected (on-grid) or Stand-alone (off-grid) systems.
Training Course:
Economic Evaluation of PV Solar Power Plants using RETScreen Expert software (Feasibility Study)
This course is an application training course for economic evaluation of any Photovoltaic Solar Power Plant (Feasibility Study). Topics firstly include basics in the financial analysis such as discount rate, cash flow and types of it, Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Return Rate (IRR). The second stage is the clean energy management software RETScreen Expert training. All worksheets including Location, Facility information, Energy model, Cost analysis, Financial analysis and Risk analysis will be extensively reviewed. Financial analysis consists of Inflation rate, Discount rate, Reinvestment rate, Project life, Debt ratio, Income tax, Depreciation, Electricity export escalation rate and economic evaluation of PV solar systems based on IRR for equity and assets, equity payback, NPV, Benefit-Cost ratio and debt service coverage. The last but not least part of the course is the Sensitivity Analysis and Risk Analysis.
Training Course:
Power systems Protection Fundamentals
The course covers general power systems protection. Topics include Line Protection, Transformer Protection, Reactors Protection, Capacitors Protection, Bus and Breaker Protection, Earth Fault Protection, Current Transformers, Voltage Transformers, requirements on CTs, Control Systems structure, Settings and Coordination of Protection Relays .
Training Course:
Fault Calculations
This is an application course on short circuit calculations. Topics include causes for faults, major protection requirements, affecting factors, fault types, basic principles, symmetrical & unsymmetrical faults, short circuit standards (IEEE 551, IEC 60909).
Training Course:
ETAP 16.0.0
This is a hands-on training course on ETAP 16.0.0. The course covers basics of AC networks, single line diagrams (OLD), power flow (load flow) analysis and short circuit calculations.
Training Course:
Basics of Substation Design (Secondary Systems)
Secondary Systems include LV AC, LV DC, Protection and Control Systems in a substation. The course extensively covers the process of design and documentation including single line diagrams (SLDs), types of substations, buses and different layouts, power transformers, instrument transformers, breakers and disconnectors, arresters, protection and control philosophy, logic diagrams and trip matrixes.
Training Course:
Power Systems Fundamentals
An extensive application course on fundamentals of power systems. Topics include power generation, transmission and distribution systems. Steady-state modeling, system earthing, general familiarity with PU values, load flow and short circuit analysis, time-domains in power grids, network stability as well as basics of protection relaying.
Should you need any customized training or further information, please contact us at any time.
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