Conference Highlights

This training conference includes a day at the Alstom Grid manufacturing facility in Charleroi, five days of intense substation/switchgear maintenance training, a half-day "Circuit Breaker Lube by Number" seminar, a half-day "Air Disconnect Switch Maintenance" seminar, demonstrations of advanced monitoring and testing tools, and the industry's "Top 100" manufacturer and supplier exhibits each evening at the Hospitality Expo.

Who Should Attend

The conference provides training for people who are responsible for operating, maintaining, and/or managing substation/switchgear assets. Most participants are substation electricians, supervisors, superintendents, and asset managers from investor owned, municipal, rural electric cooperative, and government owned electric systems.

Benefits of Attending

Receive five days of intense training from users' perspectives, obtain factory authorized training, discuss issues in an informal setting, exchange operating experiences with your peers, and review cutting-edge products/services at the exhibits. The $875 registration fee includes all training events and meals.

Many training sessions focus on medium and high voltage circuit breakers. However, related substation and switchgear topics such as power transformer maintenance, oil testing and filtration, SF6 gas handling, safe work practices, and asset management issues are also covered. Finepoint's objective is to provide useful, unbiased, non-commercial, and positive information that can be immediately applied to substation and switchgear maintenance work. One unique aspect of the conference is that most speakers are the electric utility company delegates themselves, not suppliers.