COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Resilience Assessments for Power Systems. It covers the resilience in the context of power systems and its importance for reliability and sustainability; the components of a power system and resilience challenges in power systems; the risk management and resilience assessment; the effects of climate change on power system infrastructure and extreme weather events and their impact on operations; the adaptation strategies for mitigating climate risks and regulatory and policy implications for climate resilience; the difference between resilience versus reliability; and how reliability improvements contribute to resilience. 

Further, the course will also discuss the weak points in power system design; the qualitative and quantitative vulnerability assessment, tools and techniques for vulnerability modeling, risk maps and vulnerability matrices; the critical infrastructure for power systems and dependencies between systems and infrastructure; the effects of failure in one component on overall system resilience; assessing interdependencies with water, communication and transportation systems; the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in power systems; and the impact of natural disasters and economic and operational vulnerabilities. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn to upgrade physical infrastructure for resilience and redundancy and diversification; the smart grids and resilience and resilient transmission and distribution networks; the operational flexibility and emergency response, financial and risk mitigation tools and resilience modeling techniques; the scenario analysis,  stress testing and optimizing resilience in power systems; the data analysis for resilience assessment, resilience assessment framework and developing action plans based on resilience assessment results; assigning responsibilities, setting performance targets and monitoring continuous improvement; and the collaboration and stakeholder engagement.