Power Systems and Grid Operations

This programme covers the operation of a power system from generation through transmission to distribution, and then the specific stresses introduced by variable renewable generation and distributed resources: inertia, frequency response, curtailment and the flexibility needed to manage them.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Explain how supply and demand are balanced in real time.
• Identify the stability services a system depends on.
• Assess the operational effects of high variable generation.
• Evaluate flexibility options including storage and demand response.

Utility engineers and operators, regulators, and commercial staff working with power markets.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A system balancing explanation usable with non technical stakeholders.
• A stability services map.
• An assessment of variable generation effects on a given system.
• A flexibility option comparison.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.