“NERC Certification Training with Powersimulator Training Package”
Getting Non-Certified Operators (Distribution, Power Plant Operators) and other Interested Candidates who are seeking a career path as a NERC Certified System Operator can elect this training package in order to get the up to Speed Fast & Ready to Perform on the desk.
With the success of the Power4Vets™ training program IncSys has proven the effectiveness of using simulation-based online training to get personnel who are new to system operations up-to-speed quickly and ready to sit on the desk. There is no other accelerated training approach that gives the students both the simulated experience and situational awareness that is needed to perform at the required level for system operations.
With over 400+ Power4Vets students now working in the energy industry and over 150 veterans NERC certified through our program, we have shown that with the unique benefits of simulation training, new hires with no previous grid management experience can get certified and be effective members of an energy management team.
Mike Anderson, the Supervisor of Transmission and Real Time Operations at American Electric Power, had this to say about the Power4Vets students that he hired at AEP:
The IncSys trained veterans that we have hired have helped us close the gap in our training process by 2-4 years and rapidly put these candidates into Operator Positions. Hiring those graduates have proven to be a huge success for AEP.
Building on this valuable training experience, we are excited to make a similar package available to personnel new to system operations. This set of training courses can greatly reduce the time it takes for new hires to get up-to-speed and ready to operate on the real-time desk. It will also help prepare them for successful completion of the NERC Exam.
NERC CERTIFICATION WITH POWERSIMULATOR DETAILS
Each of the topics below includes content lectures, simulation exercises, and assessments & quizzes
- Power System Operations Course Orientation
- Power System Generation, Substation & Transmission, Operator Communications, Operator Decision Making, & NERC COM Reliability Standards
- Balancing and Frequency Control
- Transmission Network Flows, Real-Time Assessment & Contingency Analysis
- Voltage and Reactive Power Control
- Emergency Operations (Lectures Only)
- System Restoration (Lectures Only)
- System Protection (Lectures Only)
- Severe Weather, Natural Disasters, & Geomagnetic Disturbances
- Switching (Lectures Only)
- Electricity Generation & Markets (Bonus Course)
NERC CERTIFICATION TRAINING EXAM PREPARATION & STUDY MATERIALS
This portion of the program involves in depth coverage of NERC Certification test in a variety of different topics similar to the NERC Reliability Coordinator Exam Outline. It contains a series of sample test questions (796 total questions).
The quiz banks consist of two parts and a final exam:
Practice Quizzes – Part I:
- Balancing – 5 quizzes – 100 total questions
- Emergency Preparedness & Operations – 3 quizzes, 60 total questions
- Interchange Coordination & Scheduling – 3 quizzes, 70 total questions
- Interconnection Reliability Operation & Coordination – 3 quizzes, 55 total questions
- Protection & Control – 2 quizzes, 36 total questions
- System Operations – 2 quizzes, 41 total questions
- Transmission Operations – 3 quizzes, 53 total questions
- Voltage & Reactive – 2 quizzes, 48 total questions
- Communications – 1 quiz, 20 total questions
- Other – 1 quiz, 25 total questions
- Total questions for Part 1: 483 total questions
Practice Quizzes Part II:
- Emergency Preparedness & Operations – Part I – 1 quiz, 35 total questions
- Emergency Preparedness & Operations – Part II – 1 quiz, 30 total questions
- Interchange Scheduling & Coordination – 1 quiz, 36 total questions
- Interconnection Reliability Operation & Coordination – 1 quiz, 8 total questions
- Protection & Control – 1 quiz, 8 total questions
- Resource & Demand Balancing – Part I – 1 quiz, 20 total questions
- Resource & Demand Balancing – Part II – 1 quiz, 24 total questions
- System Operations – 1 quiz, 36 total questions
- Transmission Operations – 1 quiz 28 total questions
- Voltage & Reactive – 1 quiz, 11 total questions
- Total questions for Part 1: 236 total questions
Final NERC Exam:
- 82 Question exam which should be taken as a self-timed exam in less than 1.5 hours
Final Oral Board Training Session with an IncSys Trainer
An IncSys Administrator will assess all course completion grades and data and will share this with an IncSys Trainer who will be conducting a oral board session (2 hours minimum) to ensure the student is prepared and ready to take the NERC examination before it is scheduled. All candidates who take the NERC exam are required to provide IncSys with a copy of their NERC test scores.
IncSys Non-Refundable Policy
Clients who purchase the NERC Certification Training with Powersimulator training package from IncSys Academy is Non-Refundable from the date of payment.
PSOC Course Curriculum Outline dated 02-23-2023 (PDF Downloadable)