COURSE SUMMARY

“Introduction to Electric Power for Legal, Accounting, and Regulatory Professionals” is a fast-paced three-day course that provides a working understanding of electric power to legal, accounting, regulatory, and other professionals, without requiring a technical or math background. Participants will be able to better understand and discuss technical issues in the electric utility industry, particularly relating to electric industry restructuring, transmission open access, “wheeling,” “loop flow,” and competition. Analogies between electric power and familiar experiences will be offered to help in explaining and understanding issues.

Lectures are complemented with demonstrations and a software laboratory, where participants analyze examples of electric power systems and learn how to interpret the results. The course culminates in a planning laboratory, where participants apply the class material to analyze expansion alternatives in a hypothetical electric power system.

The course consists of approximately 18 hours of lectures, 1 hour of software laboratory, and 1 hour of planning laboratory. The lectures are presented using approximately 800 Power Point slides. Each attendee receives a hard copy of the presentation in a three-ring binder, including a glossary of terms with cross-reference to the presentation materials.

Since 1996, over four-hundred professionals have attended the course, which is updated for each offering. Previous attendees of the course may want to take it again as a refresher or to catch up on new developments in Regional Transmission Organizations and Electric Reliability Organizations.

This course, or a one- or two-day subset of the material, can be presented at your company site. It is taught by Dr. Ross Baldick, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Baldick certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit in the states of California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.