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Jan 14 - Dec 9, 2025
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Engineering Webinar Series: All 12 Webinars

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The engineering webinar series is comprised of 12 webinars offered each month from January through December 2025. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all 12 webinars at a discounted price. Group pricing is also available.

Jan 16 - Dec 11, 2025
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CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: All 12 Webinars

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The CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series covers various organizational accounting topics and is comprised of 12 webinars from January through December 2025. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all 12 webinars at a discounted price.

Mar 11 - Oct 7, 2025
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Engineering and Operations Work Order Webinar Series: All 8 Webinars

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Want to understand the work order process (one that runs smoothly!) and the components within the process? Then this is the webinar series for you! Gain the knowledge and confidence to execute your day-to-day work more efficiently and effectively. Learn more about the largest investment your utility makes and how your process (and maybe even relationships with co-workers) can be at their best.

Sep 16 - 18, 2025

Foreman Leadership Certificate Program Part 1

Kootenai Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Rathdrum, Idaho

The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.

Sep 18, 2025
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Microsoft Office 365 Series: Microsoft To Do

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Unleash the power of Microsoft Office 365 To Do and manage your daily tasks efficiently, collaboratively, and with greater focus.

Sep 22 - 25, 2025
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Northwest Innovations in Communications Conference

Grouse Mountain Lodge - Whitefish, Montana

Join us this September in Whitefish, Montana, at the Grouse Mountain Lodge for the 2025 NIC! The NIC is an award-winning conference that offers communicators and energy services professionals a chance to reach new heights. This year's theme is Expand Your Horizons: Big Ideas Under the Big Sky.

Sep 23, 2025
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Incident Investigation

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This class examines the fundamentals of incident investigation, focusing on purpose and outcomes rather than fault-finding. You will explore different investigation methodologies, learn to establish effective investigation parameters, and understand how findings drive organizational change.

Sep 23, 2025
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Depreciation Workshop

The Centennial Hotel - Spokane, Washington

In this one-day workshop, you will gain a solid understanding of how infrastructure is paid for over time and the impact of decisions relating to depreciation and rate making. This course includes interactive activities to increase knowledge and understanding of the depreciation concepts unique to utilities.

Sep 24 - 25, 2025
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Advanced Work Order Topics

The Centennial Hotel - Spokane, Washington

This is a one-and-a-half-day interactive extension of the Understanding the Work Order System course. The objective of this workshop is to evaluate and elevate the baseline learning from Understanding the Work Order Systems. The two takeaways from this day will be “So what?” and “What’s next?”

Sep 25, 2025
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Generate AI Storytelling Strengths

Grouse Mountain Lodge - Whitefish, Montana

In this interactive workshop, you will learn what's possible with artificial intelligence, establish trust (and a healthy distrust) of results, and work with other participants to create smarter content.

Oct 2 - 30, 2025
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Intro to AI for Utility Professionals: All Three Webinars

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This three-part webinar series provides utility-specific information on artificial intelligence.

Oct 2, 2025
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Intro to AI for Utility Professionals: AI 101 - The Fundamentals

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This course introduces the foundational concepts of artificial intelligence relevant for the electric utility industry. It is designed for individuals with little to no prior experience with AI. Through a blend of theory and hands-on practice, you will explore the core principles, methodologies, and tools that drive AI technologies. This course uses the free versions of ChatGPT and CoPilot.

Oct 2, 2025
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Avian Protection Workshop - CANCELED

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This one-day workshop will provide instruction and lead you in the development or updating of an avian protection plan for your electric utility.

Oct 6, 2025
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Staking Technician Certification Program: Protection/Basic Sectionalizing Design

Hampton Inn & Suites Boise/Downtown - Boise, Idaho

This course is part of the Staking Technician Certification Program. It will give you a basic understanding of the devices and techniques used to protect distribution lines and customers from damage or injury due to over-current/over-voltage.

Oct 6, 2025
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Managing the New Angry: De-Escalation Skills for the Workplace

Grove Hotel - Boise, Idaho

Resolving conflicts that arise in the workplace is one of the toughest challenges for customer-facing employees. In high-pressure interactions where emotions run high and positive outcomes are critical, you must already be prepared to respond effectively. During this workshop, you will develop new skills and strategies to de-escalate challenging situations.

Oct 7, 2025
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Engineering and Operations Work Order Webinar Series: Rate Impact of Maintenance and Capitalized Work

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This webinar focuses on how to keep rates as low as possible. You will look at how much it costs to provide reliable power, and discuss the impact of decisions—such as completing a timesheet and using materials—on the overall cost of providing service.

Oct 7, 2025
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Staking Technician Certification Program: Line Inspection

Hampton Inn & Suites Boise/Downtown - Boise, Idaho

This course is part of the Comprehensive Staking Technician Program. The National Electrical Safety Code requires that a utility inspect its facilities periodically to ensure that they are safe and adequate to distribute electricity.

Oct 7 - 9, 2025
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3 C's Conference

Grove Hotel - Boise, Idaho

At the 3 C's Conference, subject matter experts share their knowledge about current key issues in customer service, credit, and collections.

Oct 7 - 9, 2025
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Substation Elite Hands-On Boot Camp

Sacramento Power Academy - Sacramento, California

This new boot camp condenses five popular classes from NWPPA’s Substation Series into an immersive training experience. It will include classroom and hands-on instruction in a substation training area.

Oct 8, 2025
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Staking Technician Certification Program: Sizing Transformers and Conductors

Hampton Inn & Suites Boise/Downtown - Boise, Idaho

This one-day course is part of the Staking Technician Certification Program. It will focus on basic electric theory and the methodology to correctly size transformers and service conductors for standard residential and small commercial loads. You will learn to perform basic calculations for current, voltage, power, and voltage drop.

Oct 9, 2025
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Staking Technician Certification Program: Unique Structure Design

Hampton Inn & Suites Boise/Downtown - Boise, Idaho

This one-day course is part of the Staking Technician Certification Program. It will focus on basic electric theory and the methodology to correctly size transformers and service conductors for standard residential and small commercial loads. You will learn to perform basic calculations for current, voltage, power, and voltage drop.

Oct 9, 2025
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CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Financial Impact of Implementing Consumer Technologies

Online

During this session, you will learn how to utilize smart meter information to make informed financial decisions, implement technologies such as programmable thermostats, EVs, solar panels, and other advancements effectively, evaluate and respond to the financial impacts of implementing consumer technologies, and report effectively to communicate the financial story of your cooperative/utility.

Oct 14, 2025
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Engineering Webinar Series: Underground Cable Installation Guide

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Underground power is common in new subdivisions and in conversions from overhead distribution to underground distribution. In this webinar, you will explore installation techniques for underground cable systems, including sizing conduit and pulling tension limits. Beyond engineering, cable handling issues such as bending radius, use of rollers, and cable accessories will be addressed.

Oct 14 - 16, 2025
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HR and Labor Relations Conference

Kimpton Palladian Hotel - Seattle, Washington

Join us for the HR and Labor Relations Conference, formerly know as the Labor and Employee Relations Group Conference. This annual event brings together labor relations leaders and human resources professionals to share experiences, recommendations, and lessons learned about key labor relations and human resources issues.

Oct 14 - 15, 2025
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Leadership Skills: Challenging Communication

Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington

This course is one of three needed to earn a Leadership Skills Certificate. The leader's role in facilitating performance will be described, along with ways of dealing with challenges such as denial and reluctance to accept accountability.

Oct 15, 2025
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NRECA CCD 2610: Understanding the Electric Business

The Antlers - Colorado Springs, Colorado

This course provides an understanding of the operational challenges electric utilities face. The course also presents a set of tools to facilitate due diligence in boardroom decision-making on these issues. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association members can also apply this course toward the Credentialed Cooperative Director Certificate, but NRECA membership is not required to attend.

Oct 15 - 16, 2025
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Microsoft Office 365 Series: Word for Contracts and Procedures

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Develop a mastery of your Word documents in this two-part course. Upon successful completion, you will be able to:Use advanced selection techniques, create and use styles, use the navigation pane effectively, use outline view, and more.

Oct 15, 2025
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Intro to AI for Utility Professionals: AI 102 - Go Further With Prompts

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This course focuses on crafting and refining prompts to optimize interactions with conversational artificial intelligence systems. You will learn techniques to create effective, precise, and context-aware prompts that improve the accuracy and usefulness of AI responses. The course explores prompt structure, iterative refinement, and tailoring prompts for specific tasks.

Oct 22, 2025
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Oregon Utilities Records Management Meeting

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This one-day meeting will include a morning roundtable discussion and afternoon training provided by the Oregon Secretary of State's Archives Division.

Oct 28 - 29, 2025
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NERC-Compliant Battery Maintenance for Utilities

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This workshop is an introduction to the long-established IEEE maintenance procedures required to ensure the reliability of lead-acid and nickel-cadmium batteries. It covers the specific maintenance practices required to ensure compliance as documented in North American Electric Reliability Corporation Standards PRC-005-6 and TPL-001-5 and more.

Oct 28, 2025
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Helping Customers Understand Energy Usage and Conservation Measures

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Although electricity is one necessity that Americans cannot do without, many consumers are remarkably uninformed and misinformed on how to understand and control their energy usage

Oct 29, 2025
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You’ve Got the Grant—Now What? Post-Award Navigation for Public Power Projects

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Securing grant funding is a major achievement—but it’s just the beginning. Join Energy Northwest for a webinar designed to help public power grant recipients successfully navigate the critical next steps of post-award grant management. Learn how to implement effective reporting, meet compliance requirements, communicate with funders, and avoid common pitfalls.

Oct 30, 2025
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Intro to AI for Utility Professionals: AI 103 - Automate Your Workflow

In this course, you will unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to streamline your daily tasks and supercharge your productivity. This hands-on webinar will help you harness the power of AI to reduce manual work, eliminate repetitive tasks, and optimize business processes. You will learn ways to integrate AI into everyday applications, design smart workflows, and make data-driven decision

Nov 3 - 6, 2025
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Fall Lineworker Boot Camp

Kootenai Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Rathdrum, Idaho

This new boot camp condenses six popular courses from our Lineworker Skills Series into a focused, four-day program. During the boot camp, you will gain valuable knowledge and practical skills in critical areas to enhance your safety, efficiency, and confidence on the job. The program combines theory and hands-on sessions to provide a comprehensive learning experience.

Nov 4 - 5, 2025
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Electric Distribution Systems

Residence Inn by Marriott Vancouver - Vancouver, Washington

This popular course provides in-depth coverage of an electric utility's distribution system, from the distribution substation to a customer's outlet.

Nov 4, 2025
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Engineering Webinar Series: Utility Easement Rights and Obligations

Online

The best-designed power line is useless without land to build it on. Acquiring easements from property owners to cross over their land and potentially cut their trees may be the hardest part of distribution line staking. In this webinar, you will learn best practices for obtaining easements and review pitfalls to avoid.

Nov 4 - 5, 2025
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Leadership Skills: Supervising Union Employees

Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington

The MARC Union-Labor Relations program increases the skills and confidence of frontline supervisors to serve as management's frontline representatives in dealing with employees, stewards, and officers of the union. Additionally, top-level managers are trained to delegate and support frontline supervisors.

Nov 4 - 6, 2025
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Negotiating Your Collective Bargaining Agreement

Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative - Huntley, Montana

This comprehensive course is designed to guide you through any negotiation experience with an emphasis on labor management contract negotiations. More than just information on how and what to do, this course focuses equally on what not to do. The class includes interactive activities to build and improve your skill sets so you can continue to hone them well after the course concludes.

Nov 6, 2025
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CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Depreciation Impact and Fixed Assets Review

Online

During this session, you will ensure the fixed asset listing is accurate and up to date, explore best practices in determining if assets exist, are in use or obsolete, and have a reasonable remaining depreciation life, discuss industry norms for depreciation rates and useful asset lives, evaluate the depreciation schedule of your utility, and consider the impacts of adjustments to plant assets.

Nov 13, 2025
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Manager as Leader: Interact With Impact

Online

Every interaction is an opportunity to build commitment and capability. Your daily interactions are the heartbeat of your working relationships. Are your interactions boosting the commitment and capability of those you lead? This course will introduce proven principles and skills for interacting effectively in a variety of leadership situations and enable you to apply them.

Nov 13, 2025
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Microsoft Office 365 Series: Excel Conditional Formatting

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This deep dive starts with the essentials of Excel's conditional formatting and then takes off quickly. You will learn to call out interesting data using colors, icons, or data bars.

Nov 18, 2025
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Handling High Bill Inquiries

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High bills are the number one concern of all utility customers. As a result, when consumers come calling with these concerns, it is the biggest opportunity that the utility has to serve, to assist, and to educate these customers. It is also one of the biggest challenges.

Dec 1, 2025
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Substation Series: Equipment Testing Safety Orientation

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This one-day class will cover necessary safety considerations to keep you safe while performing or observing electrical and mechanical tests on substation equipment. Testing concepts will be briefly covered, with the day focused on the hazards associated with the most common tests performed on transformers, power circuit breakers, instrument transformers, and battery systems.

Dec 2, 2025
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Substation Series: Power Circuit Breaker Testing

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This one-day class will cover the basics of testing and maintaining power circuit breakers commonly seen in substations. The focus will be on gas-insulated, oil-insulated, and vacuum circuit breakers.

Dec 2 - 4, 2025
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Foreman Leadership Certificate Program Part 2

Marriott Tacoma Downtown - Tacoma, Washington

The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.

Dec 3, 2025
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Substation Series: SF6 Basics and Leak Repair Techniques

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This one-day class will cover the basics of sulfur hexafluoride, a common insulating gas used in substation power circuit breakers. You will learn about the fundamentals of SF6; its associated hazards; gas testing theory and practice; and gas handling practices. You will also learn techniques to find breaker leaks and repair them both safely and effectively.

Dec 3 - 4, 2025
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Manager as Leader: Lead Teams and Coach for Success

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This workshop combines two of the Manager as Leader series classes: Lead Teams and Coach for Success.

Dec 9 - 18, 2025
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Administrative Professionals Series: What Every Professional Needs to Know

Online

What Every Professional Needs to Know is made up of three two-part webinars that provide utility-specific information directed toward administrative assistants and executive secretaries who want to become more effective in managing their tasks and in communicating with others.

Dec 9, 2025
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Engineering Webinar Series: Sizing Three-Phase Transformers

Online

Three-phase pad-mounted transformers can be expensive items for an electric utility. In this webinar, you will gain a better understanding of industry standards that apply to three-phase pad-mounted transformers, as well as the different options available in the marketplace. The presentation will also include the specification and application of these units.

Dec 9 - 10, 2025
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Microsoft Office 365 Series: Excel Get and Transform

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This two-part course is for Excel users who regularly spend too much time manipulating data into the right format before they even begin to analyze it. Get and Transform (aka Power Query) can perform repetitive data cleansing such as deleting rows and columns, merging data from various data sources, and fixing layout issues without macros or VBA.

Dec 10 - 11, 2025
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Leadership Skills: Understanding SLII Work Styles

Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington

This course is one of the three courses needed to earn a Leadership Skills Series Certificate. The SLII Experience foundation lies in teaching leaders to diagnose the needs of an individual or a team, and then to use the appropriate leadership style to respond to the needs of the person.

Dec 11, 2025
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CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Using AI to Enhance Accounting and Finance Processes

Online

During this session, you will evaluate how deployments of artificial intelligence can benefit accounting and finance activities, modernize processes and reporting using AI to free up time for the utility's other financial needs, discuss areas where errors can be prevented using AI, and consider AI in risk management, financial planning, detection of fraud, and strategic decision-making.

Jan 27, 2026
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Wildfires: What Utilities Need to Know

Sheraton Portland Airport - Portland, Oregon

Join us for this one-day conference to gain insights into strategies for addressing the multifaceted challenges wildfires pose to utilities in the West. As wildfires continue to threaten our region, collaboration is essential.

Jan 29, 2026
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Power Supply Conference

Sheraton Portland Airport - Portland, Oregon

The NWPPA Power Supply Conference provides the expertise and insight needed to inform power supply decisions. In this new era of dynamic resource options and challenges, managing and planning for power resources and costs have never been more critical to utilities and their consumers. The 2026 Power Supply Conference will educate, encourage discussion, and provide a venue for attendees to share.

Feb 24 - 25, 2026
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Distribution Engineering Series: Overcurrent Protection

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This two-day course focuses on the application of protective devices within a distribution system. You will discover how to apply best practices for protecting transformers and equipment while maintaining the highest reliability possible, including coordinating with distribution feeders and downline devices.

Feb 24 - 26, 2026
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Foreman Leadership Certificate Program Part 1

Graduate by Hilton Eugene - Eugene, Oregon

The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities will also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.

Feb 26, 2026
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Interconnection of Residential Solar and Battery Energy Storage Systems

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

Solar and battery energy storage systems are becoming more common, and utilities need to be well versed in the requirements of IEEE 1547 and the requirements of the NEC related to these systems. This course will focus on inverter-based systems such solar and BESS.