Electrical & Renewable Energy training courses
Design, operate and maintain electrical systems, from substations to solar and storage.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Motor Control Centres and Variable Speed Drives
Motors consume the majority of industrial electricity and their control gear is where much of the downtime originates. This course covers motor control centre construction, starting methods and the drives that control speed and save energy.
Solar Photovoltaic System Design and Installation
Solar installations underperform when they are sized on optimism rather than on load data and site conditions. This course covers system sizing, component selection, installation practice and commissioning for grid tied and hybrid systems.
Substation Operation and Maintenance
Substations concentrate risk and consequence in one place. This course covers the equipment, switching discipline and maintenance regime that keep a substation safe and available.
Power Distribution and Protection Systems
A distribution network must clear faults quickly and selectively, isolating only what is faulty. This course covers distribution design, protection principles and the coordination that makes selectivity work.
Energy Efficiency and Demand Management
Energy cost is one of the few overheads that can be cut without cutting output. This course covers auditing energy use, identifying savings and building the measurement discipline that proves the savings are real.
Battery Energy Storage Systems
Storage changes what an electrical system can do, and introduces hazards that conventional electrical training does not cover. This course covers technologies, sizing, integration and the safety regime storage demands.
Generator Sets and Standby Power
Standby power fails most often because it was never properly tested. This course covers generator selection, installation, transfer arrangements and the maintenance and testing regime that makes standby power dependable.
Wind Energy Fundamentals
Wind projects live or die on resource assessment and turbine availability. This course covers how turbines convert wind to power, how sites are assessed and what keeps a wind installation producing.
Electrical Systems for Non Electrical Managers
Managers who authorise electrical work and budgets need to understand what they are approving. This course gives non electrical staff a working grasp of electrical systems, risk and the questions to ask their technical teams.
Instrumentation and Process Control Fundamentals
Control loops keep plant within limits, and a loop that is poorly tuned or wrongly configured causes problems that look like equipment faults. This course covers measurement, final control elements and loop tuning.
Earthing, Bonding and Lightning Protection
Earthing decides whether a fault clears safely or energises the metalwork people are touching. This course covers earthing system design, bonding practice, testing and protection against lightning.
Mini Grids and Rural Electrification
Serving communities beyond the national grid requires different engineering and a different business model. This course covers sizing, generation mix, distribution and the tariff and management arrangements that keep a mini grid viable.
Electrical Testing and Commissioning
Commissioning is the last chance to find an installation error before it becomes an incident. This course covers the inspection and test sequence for a new electrical installation and the records that certify it.
Energy Management Systems to ISO 50001
Energy saving projects deliver once and then decay unless the organisation builds a system around them. This course covers establishing an energy management system, setting baselines and sustaining improvement.
Programmable Logic Controllers for Maintenance Staff
When a controlled machine stops, the fault is usually a sensor or an actuator rather than the controller, but you need to read the program to prove it. This course teaches maintenance staff enough programming to diagnose confidently.
Electrical Load Management and Power Factor
Many organisations pay for electricity they never use, through poor power factor and unmanaged peak demand. This course covers measuring the problem and correcting it.
Solar System Operations and Maintenance
Solar installations quietly lose output to soiling, shading and failed strings that nobody notices without monitoring. This course covers keeping an installed system producing what it was designed to produce.
Electrical Drawings and Schematic Interpretation
Fault finding without being able to read the drawings turns into guesswork. This course covers interpreting the drawing set for an installation, from single line diagrams to wiring and termination schedules.
Mini Hydro and Small Scale Generation
Small hydro schemes run for decades when they are matched to the site and neglected quickly when they are not. This course covers assessing a site, sizing a scheme and operating it reliably.
High Voltage Safety and Switching
High voltage work is governed by procedure because the margin for error is zero. This course covers the safety rules, switching discipline and documentation that govern operating at high voltage.
Renewable Energy Project Development
Renewable projects fail long before construction, on land, permits and grid access. This course covers taking a project from site identification to financial close.
Electrical Maintenance Planning and Testing
Electrical assets fail with little warning unless they are tested, and testing without a plan wastes outage time. This course covers building an electrical maintenance programme and the diagnostic tests behind it.
Off Grid and Backup Power for Facilities
Facilities that must keep operating through outages need a power plan rather than a generator. This course covers designing backup and hybrid supply that matches the criticality of what it protects.
Electrical Standards and Certification of Compliance
An installation is only lawful if it complies with the wiring code and is certified by someone competent. This course covers the code requirements most often breached and the inspection behind a certificate.
Cable Selection and Installation Practice
Undersized or badly installed cable overheats, fails and starts fires long after the installer has left. This course covers sizing, selecting and installing cable correctly.
Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems
Uninterruptible supplies protect critical loads until the batteries fail unnoticed. This course covers specifying, operating and maintaining these systems so they work when needed.
Electrical Panel Building and Wiring
A control panel is judged on how easily the next person can work on it. This course covers building panels that are safe, compliant and maintainable.
Solar Water Heating Systems
Water heating is a large share of energy use in many buildings and among the simplest to displace with solar. This course covers sizing, installing and maintaining solar thermal systems.
Biogas and Waste to Energy Systems
Organic waste that costs money to dispose of can produce usable energy, provided the process is fed and managed properly. This course covers biogas production and small scale waste to energy.
Substation Automation and SCADA
Remote monitoring and control changes how a network is operated and introduces failure modes that are not electrical. This course covers substation automation and supervisory control systems.
Transformer Testing and Diagnostics
Transformers fail rarely and expensively, and give measurable warning first. This course covers the tests that reveal developing faults and how to interpret them.
Electrical Load Flow and Network Studies
Network studies answer whether an addition will overload something or trip protection, before it is connected. This course covers load flow, fault level and protection studies.
Solar Inverter Selection and Configuration
The inverter determines how much of the array's output reaches the load and how the system behaves when the grid misbehaves. This course covers selecting and configuring inverters correctly.
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Charging points add substantial load in places the electrical installation was never designed for. This course covers specifying and installing charging infrastructure safely.
Power Quality Monitoring and Correction
Poor power quality damages equipment and trips processes in ways that look like random faults. This course covers measuring quality problems and correcting them at source.
Standby Generator Load Testing
A generator that starts is not a generator that will carry the load, and running one unloaded quietly damages it. This course covers testing standby sets properly.
Lightning Risk Assessment for Sites
Lightning protection is often specified by habit rather than assessment, leaving some sites over protected and others exposed. This course covers assessing the risk and specifying proportionate protection.
Electrical Arc Fault Detection
Arc faults start fires at currents too low for conventional protection to notice. This course covers how arc detection works and where it belongs in an installation.
Renewable Energy Yield Assessment
A project is financed on a yield estimate, and optimistic estimates fail investors and operators alike. This course covers producing yield assessments that hold up.
Diesel Fuel Systems and Storage for Generators
Standby generators fail on fuel far more often than on the engine, through contamination, degradation and tanks nobody checked. This course covers fuel systems that will actually deliver when called on.
Electrical Safety Audits and Inspections
Electrical installations degrade invisibly, and a periodic inspection is the only thing standing between a hidden fault and a fire. This course covers conducting electrical safety audits and reporting them usefully.
Wiring Regulations for Hazardous Areas
In an atmosphere that can ignite, ordinary electrical practice becomes a source of explosion. This course covers area classification and the protection concepts that permit electrical equipment in those spaces.
Streetlighting and Public Lighting Systems
Public lighting is judged by residents on the lamps that are out, and by the municipality on the electricity bill. This course covers designing, operating and maintaining a public lighting network.
Voltage Optimisation and Transformer Tap Setting
Many sites are supplied at a higher voltage than their equipment needs, which wastes energy and shortens equipment life. This course covers measuring the real supply position and correcting it.