EasyPower Training

EasyPower Essentials Training

EasyPower offers convenient training options to accommodate various topics, schedules, learning styles, and skill levels. When it comes to implementing an effective arc flash safety initiative at your facility, quality training is crucial.

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EasyPower Essentials Training | 5 Days to Expert

Held in different cities throughout the year, our five-day EasyPower Essentials Training will help you get the most out of EasyPower®. Choose any or all of the three courses below.

EasyPower Essentials Training

Course	Topic Covered	Days
EasyPower® Hands-On	EasyPower overview and features, one-line development, MCCs and panel schedules, application of ShortCircuit™, PowerFlow™ overview, sample cases and applications. .	2
PDC with Protection & Coordination™	Overview of Protection & Coordination™ for protective device coordination studies, proper system coordination and increased reliability, time-current curves.	1
Arc Flash Risk Assessment	Overview of NFPA 70E and IEEE-1584, PPE requirements, arc flash studies, hands-on EasyPower ArcFlash, and more.	2

 

Additional Training Options

EasyPower Self-Paced Online Training

We are pleased to offer several free online courses where you can learn how to use EasyPower on your own schedule.  These on-demand courses are available on the Bentley Learn platform.

EasyPower Essentials - Hands-On Training

This course is designed to be a “hands-on” learning experience with the EasyPower software. It provides you with the necessary tools for immediate benefits for your own power system designs and analysis.

The course includes videos, quizzes, PDFs, and sample data files. Topics include:

• Creating one-lines in EasyPower
• Commonly used circuit elements
• Switchgear and subsystems
• Short circuit analysis
• Equipment duty
• The EasyPower device library
• SmartDesign™
• Power flow analysis
• Drawings and named views
• Scenario Manager
• Database Report and Database Browser
• Options and equipment defaults
• MCC and panel schedules
• Customizing one-line text
• Custom symbol basics
• Media Gallery

Course Requirements:

• Bentley account log-in for the Bentley Learn system
• Active EasyPower software license (contact your company’s administrator for Bentley software for licensing information)

To start the course, log in here: EasyPower Essentials - Hands-On Training.

 

EasyPower Essentials - Protective Device Coordination Training

This training covers EasyPower's Protective Device Coordination features. The course demonstrates how to use time current curves (TCCs) and reports for protective device coordination studies to ensure proper system coordination and increased system reliability.

The course includes videos, quizzes, PDFs, and sample data files. Topics include:

• Introduction to protective device coordination
• Demonstration of time current curves
• Settings and formatting 
• TCCs and short circuit options
• SmartPDC™ (auto-coordination)
• Current transformers (CTs) and relays
• Additional TCC features
• Ground overcurrent protection
• Motor control centers (MCCs) in TCCs
• Coordination reports
• Nameplate exercise
• Sequence of events

Course Requirements:

• Bentley account log-in for the Bentley Learn system
• Active EasyPower software license including Protection & Coordination™ (contact your company’s administrator for Bentley software for licensing information)

To start the course, log in here: EasyPower Essentials - Protective Device Coordination Training.

 

EasyPower Essentials - Arc Flash Risk Assessment Training

In the course, we describe how EasyPower follows established arc flash standards and procedures to perform arc flash risk assessment. This course describes changes in the IEEE 1584-2018 standard and teaches you how to perform arc flash analysis and to generate arc flash labels using EasyPower. The course includes videos, quizzes, PDFs, and sample data files. Topics include:

• Arc flash risk assessment
• Arc flash case study
• Arc flash standards, including NFPA 70E
• Arc flash output and analysis
  • Incident energy
  • PPE requirements
• Extended busway results case study
• IEEE 1584-2018 arc flash procedures
• Using EasyPower for arc flash
  • Coordination
  • Arc flash features
  • Arc flash labels
  • Energized work permits
  • Strategies for low voltage systems
  • Arc flash risk assessment summary
• Reducing arc flash hazards
  • Maintenance mode
  • Zone selective interlocking (ZSI)
  • Differential relays, arc flash detection, and fast bus tripping
• Arc flash system example
• Advanced options, safety procedures, and design
• Case history

Course Requirements:

• Bentley account log-in for the Bentley Learn system
• Active EasyPower software license including ArcFlash™  (contact your company’s administrator for Bentley software for licensing information)

To start the course, log in here: EasyPower Essentials – Arc Flash Risk Assessment Training.

 

(Coming Soon to Bentley Learn) XGSLab and Grounding Analysis Course

Grounding analysis is important for providing personnel and public safety at power systems. This training course covers grounding analysis concepts and shows how you can use XGSLab® software to design and evaluate your grounding systems.

The course includes videos and quizzes. Topics include:

• Components of a grounding design
• Personnel safety with regard to IEEE Std 80
• Measuring and characterizing soil resistivity
• Seasonal effects on grounding performance
• Ground fault current and current split

This course shows how grounding concepts may be implemented in the GSA or GSA_FD modules of XGSLab by discussing:

• XGSLab interface and settings
• Conductor library 
• Drafting grounding systems
• Importing grounding systems
• Calculating ground potential rise, touch voltages, and step voltages
• Soil resistivity analyzer
• Seasonal analysis
• Modeling ground fault and calculating fault split
• Generating automated reports

Course Requirements:

• Bentley account Log-in for the Bentley Learn system

• Active XGSLab software license (recommended but not required)

Weekly Webinars, alternating Tuesday and Thursday

• Tuesday (8:00am PST - 2 to 4 times per month) - Refresher/beginner series, various topics including our 4 week arc flash series given once per quarter
• Thursday (10:00am PST - every other week) - Topics vary, both beginner and advanced level
• See schedule and login information
• Recordings of past webinars

Engineering Support | Web-Based and Personal

Need help completing your own arc flash study? Want to advance your EasyPower skills? Do you learn better in a one-on-one setting? Consider our Web-based training.

Using the latest online meeting tool, an EasyPower engineer will show you how to perform specific tasks that you request—in real time. You won’t even have to leave your desk! Learn how Engineering Support can personalize a Web-based program for you.

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Account Specific Training

What, When, and Where You Need It

Our trainer will come to your facility for Client Site training, which offers a cost-effective way for multiple attendees to learn the powerful features of EasyPower. We can tailor a program to meet your specific needs, or you can simply choose the regional PowerClass 5-day curriculum.

Either way, attendees will benefit from the hands-on exercises, performing actual tasks for real-world power system modeling and analysis.

Our most popular Client Site training typically runs 5 days in a classroom setting. However, we can provide a two- or three-day overview of specific topics you select. Simply decide how many days and the course topics, and our professional trainer will maximize the time available to teach what is most important to your company.

Contact us today to customize a training solution for your engineers and plant personnel.

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Harmonics / Dynamic Stability Training in EasyPower

This EasyPower training course is tailored for engineers and designers who want to learn new skills or polish existing skills in the application of the EasyPower software suite for harmonics analysis. It describes the impact of harmonics on equipment and provides some exposure to dynamic stability analysis

Class Outline

Introduction to System Modeling, Harmonics, & Dynamic Stability

Course	Topic Covered	Days
EasyPower, Power Flow, System Design Fundaments	Overview PowerFlow™, system modeling, load types and PowerFlow options. There is also a review of IEEE 3002.2, motor starting and flicker (IEEE 241) and renewable energy interconnection design and equivalent.	1
Harmonics, Harmonics Theory, Applications, Filters	Overview of harmonics theory, including Fourier Series, as well as harmonics effect and simulation. System modeling with required data will also be covered. This will be followed by an overview of equipment de‐rating due to harmonics, transformer K-Rating, as well as harmonics flow/frequency scan/current injection and voltage source. In Easypower, designing and tuning active and passive filters will be covered as well as examples of harmonics, power flow and motor starting. Drive waveform and harmonics cancellation will also be covered.	3
Dynamic Stability and Applications	Overview synchronous generator modeling, induction motor modeling and mechanical load types. Governor/exciter models will also be covered, as well as renewable plant design and equivalent. Finally there will be an EasyPower Dynamic Stability simulation, including plots.	1

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