Managing Cross-Border Regional Electricity Grid Interconnection

Course Overview

Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how regional grid interconnection is controlled. In energy operations the cost of getting the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda wrong is measured in downtime, and sometimes in lives. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline has actually achieved. A common pattern is strong design of regional grid interconnection paired with weak follow-through. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability and supervised application. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations is rarely technical. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for regional grid interconnection. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations and the judgement to adapt it. The final session converts the week's work on the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations into commitments with owners and dates.