Conference Highlights

This training conference includes a day at the HVB AE Power Systems high voltage circuit breaker manufacturing facilities in Suwanee, over a dozen useful substation and switchgear presentations, a Westinghouse AA-7/10/14 circuit breaker mechanism maintenance seminar, an oil analysis and processing seminar, demonstrations of advanced testing procedures, and 90 supplier exhibits each evening at the Expo.

Transmission & Distribution World Magazine publishes an e-newsletter covering the conference. The newsletter is sent out monthly and contains articles about the presentation topics, factory tours, exhibitor products, and the most recent show updates. Current information can be found at the Conference E-Newsletter Archive.

Who Should Attend

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

Benefits of Attending

Receive practical 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 $750 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.