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Free power system and ETAP courses with certificate

Free power system courses: ETAP load flow, short circuit, protection, arc flash and stability; protection relay settings and injection testing; substation design; transformer and switchgear testing; earthing and lightning protection; electrical design for loads, cables and breakers; IEC 61850 substation automation; and critical power and battery storage.

13 courses · 163 modules · 177h 46m of video · Updated 27 September 2026
Protection Relays: Settings, Testing and Commissioning course coverFree
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Protection Relays: Settings, Testing and Commissioning

Protection relays from the CT to the commissioning record: faults and zones, CTs and VTs, fuses and IDMT curves, overcurrent and earth-fault grading by hand, transformer differential and REF, distance, motor and generator protection, numerical relays and COMTRADE, then primary and secondary injection, trip-circuit and stability tests, and maintenance.

  • Calculate fault currents from fault levels and draw overlapping zones of protection
  • Check a protection CT's class and knee point against the voltage its duty needs
  • Calculate IEC and IEEE inverse-time trip times and read fuse and LSIG trip-unit curves
13 modules 17h 13mView course
Substation Design: Layouts, Bus Schemes and Equipment course coverFree
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Substation Design: Layouts, Bus Schemes and Equipment

Design a 33/11 kV or 132/33 kV substation on paper: substation types, single-line diagrams and bus schemes, equipment ratings, fault levels, BIL and creepage, clearances in plan and section, busbar sizing, earthing and shielding, battery and charger sizing, control panels and SCADA signals, cables and lighting, civil interfaces, and energisation.

  • Choose between AIS, GIS and hybrid substations for a site, and draw the single-line diagram
  • Compare single, sectionalised, main and transfer, double bus, breaker-and-a-half and ring schemes
  • Rate breakers, disconnectors, CTs, VTs, surge arresters and transformers from the fault level
14 modules 13h 14mView course
Testing and Maintenance of Transformers and Switchgear course coverFree
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Testing and Maintenance of Transformers and Switchgear

Run, read and record the field tests that keep transformers, breakers, cables, motors and batteries in service: insulation resistance and PI, winding resistance, turns ratio and vector group, tan delta and SFRA, oil and DGA, breaker timing and contact resistance, switchgear thermography, VLF cable tests, motor tests, earth resistance and battery capacity, then turn the results into a maintenance plan.

  • Choose a maintenance strategy for each asset and set test intervals from the P-F interval and condition
  • Run insulation resistance tests and calculate DAR and PI with temperature correction
  • Test winding resistance, turns ratio, vector group and excitation current on a transformer
13 modules 19h 7mView course
Earthing and Lightning Protection Design course coverFree
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Earthing and Lightning Protection Design

Design an earthing system and lightning protection that pass inspection: TN, TT and IT systems, soil resistivity by the Wenner method, rod, plate and strip electrodes to IS 3043 and BS 7430, conductor sizing with the adiabatic equation, IEEE 80 touch and step voltage and grid design, bonding, the IEC 62305 risk assessment, air terminals and the rolling sphere, SPD selection, special cases and testing.

  • Identify TN-S, TN-C-S, TT and IT systems and explain how each clears an earth fault
  • Turn a Wenner survey into a design soil resistivity
  • Calculate rod, pipe, plate and strip electrodes to IS 3043 and combine rods with the BS 7430 method
13 modules 14h 1mView course
IEC 61850 Substation Automation: GOOSE, SCL and IEC 60870-5 course coverFree
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IEC 61850 Substation Automation: GOOSE, SCL and IEC 60870-5

The utility side of SCADA, taught the way a substation automation engineer meets it: the IEC 61850 object model and its logical nodes, SCL files from ICD through SCD to CID, MMS reporting against GOOSE against Sampled Values, the engineering process a system configuration tool follows, testing from office simulation through factory and site acceptance to maintenance isolation, and the IEC 60870-5-101 and 104 link that carries the substation to the control centre.

  • Read any IEC 61850 object reference down to the data attribute and name the logical node behind it
  • Tell ICD, SSD, SCD and CID apart and say who produces each and when
  • Decide whether a signal belongs on MMS reporting, GOOSE or Sampled Values
8 modules 4h 12mView course
Electrical Design Engineering: Loads, Cables, Breakers and Distribution course coverFree
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Electrical Design Engineering: Loads, Cables, Breakers and Distribution

Free electrical design course for engineers: estimate loads, size cables and breakers, draw single-line diagrams. The certificate is optional and paid.

  • Revise AC, DC, star, delta, power and power factor
  • Estimate loads with demand, diversity and load factors and build a load schedule
  • Size capacitor banks and draw panel single-line diagrams
11 modules 11h 53mView course
Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power course coverFree
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Data Centre Electrical and Critical Power

The electrical side of data centres, where the hiring is: the power path from grid to rack, tiers and redundancy, UPS and generators, the calculations, load flow, short-circuit and arc flash studies, PUE, monitoring, and what AI GPU racks change.

  • Trace data centre power from the utility to the rack
  • Compare N, N+1 and 2N redundancy and the Uptime Institute tiers
  • Calculate rack current, kVA and kW for single and three-phase feeds
9 modules 5h 47mView course
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS): Design, Controls and Safety course coverFree
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Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS): Design, Controls and Safety

A BESS course for electrical engineers: size storage, compare LFP and NMC, apply UL 9540A and NFPA 855. Free to learn; the certificate is optional and paid.

  • Tell MW from MWh and calculate duration, C-rate and round-trip losses
  • Name every part of a BESS from cell to MV switchgear
  • Compare LFP and NMC chemistry for stationary storage
9 modules 4h 32mView course
Power Quality and Harmonics: IEEE 519 and IEC 61000 course coverFree
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Power Quality and Harmonics: IEEE 519 and IEC 61000

Power quality for electrical engineers in plants, buildings, utilities and data centres: sags, swells, transients, flicker and unbalance; harmonics from drives, UPS, IT loads and inverters; THD, TDD, K-factor and resonance; IEEE 519-2022 limits at the point of common coupling and the IEC 61000 family; Class A measurement and Python analysis; reactors, detuned capacitor banks, passive and active filters, active front ends and multipulse drives; and a harmonic study in the free OpenDSS simulator.

  • Classify sags, swells, transients, flicker and unbalance and judge ride-through on ITIC and SEMI F47
  • Calculate THD, TDD, true RMS, true power factor, K-factor and neutral current from a spectrum
  • Predict the harmonics of six, twelve and eighteen pulse drives, UPS, IT loads and inverters
15 modules 15h 36mView course
Wiring Regulations in Practice: IEC 60364 and BS 7671 course coverFree
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Wiring Regulations in Practice: IEC 60364 and BS 7671

The wiring regulations an electrical designer, inspector or site engineer works to every day, taught from the IEC 60364 method with BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 as the worked example: the structure of the standard, earthing arrangements, automatic disconnection and Zs, RCD types, overcurrent protection and selectivity, cable sizing with correction factors, voltage drop and the CPC check, selection and erection, AFDDs and SPDs, bathrooms, PV, EV charging and batteries, inspection and testing, certificates and condition reports, and Gulf utility rules.

  • Find the Part and regulation of BS 7671 or IEC 60364 that answers a design, installation or testing question
  • Identify TN-S, TN-C-S (PME and PNB), TT and IT supplies and record Ze, fault current and maximum demand
  • Check automatic disconnection with Zs and choose the right RCD type and rating for each circuit
14 modules 15h 12mView course
NEC 2026 for Engineers and Electricians course coverFree
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NEC 2026 for Engineers and Electricians

The 2026 National Electrical Code (NFPA 70) for people who design and install: how the code is arranged, Article 110 working space and terminations, branch circuits and services, the new Article 120 load calculations for dwellings and commercial buildings, ampacity and voltage drop, overcurrent protection and taps, grounding and bonding, raceway and box fill, motors, transformers, hazardous locations, and PV, energy storage and EV charging.

  • Find any rule in NFPA 70 by chapter, article and section, and tell mandatory text from informational notes
  • Apply Article 110: listing instructions, termination temperatures, fault ratings and working space
  • Do a 2026 Article 120 load calculation for a dwelling and for a commercial building
15 modules 13h 35mView course
Diesel Generators: AMF, ATS and Synchronising course coverFree
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Diesel Generators: AMF, ATS and Synchronising

Diesel generating sets from the engine and alternator to the panel: ISO 8528 ratings, excitation and the AVR, governors and droop, DSE, ComAp, DEIF and Woodward controller concepts, automatic mains failure sequences and timers, transfer switches and neutral switching, synchronising and check-sync, kW and kVAr load sharing, multi-set and mains paralleling, generator protection by ANSI number, sizing and derating, commissioning, maintenance and troubleshooting, ending in an AMF and two-set synchronising scheme.

  • Rate a generating set under ISO 8528-1 and check a load profile against the 70 percent average limit
  • Explain brushless excitation, PMG and shunt AVR supplies, and estimate fault current from X''d
  • Calculate governor droop, no-load speed and magnetic pickup frequency, and choose droop or isochronous control
14 modules 13h 44mView course

Compare the Power systems courses

How to choose

Electrical Design Engineering covers the load, cable and breaker calculations every project starts with. ETAP Power System Analysis then models the whole network. IEC 61850 Substation Automation is for protection and substation engineers.

For testing and commissioning roles, take Protection Relays: Settings, Testing and Commissioning with Testing and Maintenance of Transformers and Switchgear. Design roles at utilities and consultancies add Substation Design and Earthing and Lightning Protection Design.

Questions

Do I need an ETAP licence?
The ETAP course uses ETAP; check with ETAP about access. The other courses do not need it.
Is IEC 61850 GOOSE covered?
Yes, along with SCL files and IEC 60870-5.
Who are these courses for?
Electrical engineers and graduates heading into utilities, EPC contractors or consultancies.
Is it free, and is there a certificate?
Every lesson, note and assessment is free. The EDWartens certificate is optional and paid, and you can finish without it.