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Building An Arc Flash Electrical Safety Program At Xcel Energy

There are inherent risk in operating and maintaining power systems, that should be reduced with well implemented safety programs. This webinar, provided by Eduardo Ramirez-Bettoni of Xcel Energy and Morgan McNeal of Perficient, provides Xcel Energy’s experience in establishing an arc flash safety program. The strategies for ensuring OSHA compliance and best practices for building an arc flash safety program are discussed.

Does Selective Coordination Help or Hurt Arc Flash Incident Energy

A properly coordinated protection system balances selectivity, sensitivity, and speed of operation to provide reliable power systems. This webinar presentation, given by Jim Chastain at Bentley/EasyPower, discusses selective coordination and highlights how protection coordination changes have an impact on arc flash hazards. Additionally, guidance is provided for dealing with arc flash incident energy increasing due to the need for a more reliable system.

Fault Current Split Calculation in Grounding Systems Studies

The ground fault current through a grounding system drives the magnitude of the ground potential rise (GPR) and corresponding touch and step voltage hazards at a substation. As current will take all paths, the GPR at a substation grounding system may be reduced with connections to shield wires, neutrals, and other metallic paths for ground current. This webinar, provided by David Lewis at Bentley Systems/EasyPower, describes the fault current split concepts and shares techniques for calculating fault current split, including detailed analysis with XGSLab NETS software.

PowerFlow and the One-Line Drawing

This refresher webinar dives into the advantages afforded by the PowerFlow module from EasyPower. Sadly overlooked due to the focus on Arc Flash hazards, Power Flow remains a key element to troubleshoot the one-line database and improving the overall 'health' of the facility's electrical power system. This presentation, given by Jim Chastain, uses the EasyPower tools to optimize transformer efficiency, creates a Voltage Drop report, and show how systems reports can be used to reduce system losses.

Importing SKM Files into EasyPower

EasyPower provides efficient methods to create and improve power system models as your facility and clients upgrade tools. This refresher webinar, presented by Jim Chastain, highlights the advantages of importing existing SKM comma-separated value (CSV) files into EasyPower and how to automatically construct the resulting one-line model.

Specifying the Appropriate Short Circuit Rating Based on Utility Service

Costly mistakes can be made when specifying short circuit ratings without verifying the utility fault current. Best practice is to contact the utility early in the design however some educated assumptions can be made prior to receiving the utility fault letter. This presentation, given by Andrew Legro at ABB, explains the variation in fault currents based on the type of utility service and then discusses considerations in specifying the short circuit rating of connected equipment.