Prepare the technical case for capital investment in smart grid demand management.
Designing Smart Grids to Manage Variable Demand
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to smart grid demand management.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in smart grid demand management; it has added to it. Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how demand management is controlled. This programme builds the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. It suits anyone whose decisions touch smart grid demand management, in large organisations and small ones alike. Ambition around this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about demand management in their own setting. Practitioner evidence points the same way: smart grid demand management improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. They leave able to brief senior management on demand management in terms that support a decision. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Plan demand management around shutdown windows rather than against them.
Apply a repeatable review cycle to smart grid demand management and act on what it produces.
Handle the trade-offs in demand management between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Design a practical operating method for smart grid demand management that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in demand management.
Establish spare-parts and logistics cover for the critical elements of smart grid demand management.
Who Should Attend
Anyone whose accountability for smart grid demand management exceeds their current formal training in it.
Process safety and technical safety specialists reviewing demand management.
Department heads accountable for the results of smart grid demand management.
Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for demand management.
Operations and production engineers responsible for smart grid demand management.
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing demand management.
Course Modules
Smart grid demand management: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The environmental exposure created by smart grid demand management
- Review whether smart grid demand management is aligned with the objectives of the operating asset.
- Define the safe operating envelope for demand management and how deviations are detected.
- Check that the permit regime covering smart grid demand management matches the actual hazard.
- Prepare the summary of demand management that senior management will read.
Session 2The decisions in demand management that cannot be delegated
- Identify where judgement in smart grid demand management is legitimate and where it is not.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in demand management.
- Define the trigger that would require smart grid demand management to be redesigned.
- Plan the demand management scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
Demand management: instrumentation, data and condition monitoring
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in demand management and how to reason about them
- Identify the data already collected that bears on smart grid demand management.
- Check that demand management still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Confirm that lessons from smart grid demand management are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving demand management.
Session 2Getting other functions to support demand management
- Name a single owner for each element of smart grid demand management.
- Confirm the inspection interval for demand management is based on condition, not habit.
- Build the competence framework that supports smart grid demand management.
- Identify critical spares for demand management and confirm lead times.
Demand management: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the instrumentation on demand management is and is not telling you
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of smart grid demand management.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to demand management.
- Define acceptance criteria for smart grid demand management in advance.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in demand management.
Session 2The permit and isolation regime that smart grid demand management actually requires
- Establish the boundary of smart grid demand management and record what sits outside it.
- Rank the weaknesses in demand management by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Model the economics of smart grid demand management at low, base and high price cases.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on demand management.
Demand management: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding contractors on demand management to the standard you hold yourself
- Verify six months later that changes to smart grid demand management have held.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios demand management can create.
- Verify isolation points for smart grid demand management are proven and documented.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether demand management is improving.
Session 2Reading condition data on demand management before failure, not after
- Confirm that reporting on smart grid demand management reaches the people who can act.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to demand management.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of smart grid demand management.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on demand management.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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