Transmission and Distribution
Discounted Courses for NATE Members:
34.5 KV Rubber Glove Work
Course description: The 34.5 KV Rubber Glove Work course is designed to introduce participants to procedures and equipment associated with [...]
Advanced Rigging – Transmission & Distribution
Course description: The Advanced Rigging course is designed to familiarize participants with the various types of weights and tensions associated [...]
Bucket Trucks, Part 1
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the major parts of a bucket truck, safety features commonly [...]
Bucket Trucks, Part 2
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach some basic techniques that can be used to operate a [...]
Cable Fault Locating, Part 1 (Radar)
Course description: Cable Fault Locating (Radar), Part 1 is designed to familiarize participants with how a radar cable fault locator [...]
Cable Fault Locating, Part 2 (Radar)
Course description: Cable Fault Locating (Radar), Part 2 is designed to familiarize participants with equipment and basic procedures for prelocating [...]
Cable Splicing, Part 1
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the principles of underground cable splicing and to demonstrate how [...]
Cable Splicing, Part 2
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the principles of splicing paper-insulated lead-covered (PILC) cables. The course [...]
Cable Terminations
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the principles of high-voltage cable terminations and to demonstrate how [...]
Care and Testing of Tools and Equipment
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach care, inspection, and testing of tools and equipment commonly used [...]
Climbing Steel Poles and Towers
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic principles of safe climbing on steel poles and [...]
Climbing Wooden Poles
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the use of basic climbing equipment, the basic techniques of [...]
Distribution
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach transmission and distribution (T&D) personnel to recognize the basic elements [...]
Distribution Line Repair – Gloves
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the principles involved in working on energized lines using insulated [...]
Distribution Line Repair – Hot Sticks
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the principles involved in working on energized lines using hot [...]
Distribution Line Safety
Course description: The Distribution Line Safety course is designed primarily to introduce participants to principles and techniques of equipotential grounding. [...]
High Voltage AC Power, Part 1
Course description: The purpose of this course is to introduce transmission and distribution (T&D) personnel to some of the factors [...]
High Voltage AC Power, Part 2
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach participants basic alternating current (AC) power theory. The course focuses [...]
Hydraulic Derricks
Course description: The purpose of this course is to familiarize participants with three types of hydraulic digging equipment: digger derricks, [...]
Hydraulic Hand Tools, Part 1
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic principles of operation of three commonly used types [...]
Hydraulic Hand Tools, Part 2
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic principles of operation of three types of hydraulic [...]
Introduction to Smart Grid
Course description: This course will describe what the smart grid is and why it was developed. It will also describe [...]
Material Handling Bucket Trucks
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the operation of material handling bucket trucks. The course focuses [...]
Mobile Compressors and Pneumatic Tools
Course description: There are many types and sizes of compressors. One of the more common types is the mobile construction [...]
Mobile Hydraulic Systems
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach basic operation and maintenance of mobile hydraulic systems used on [...]
Multiple Street Lighting Systems
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic principles of operation and maintenance of a multiple [...]
Overhead Troubleshooting, Part 1
Course description: Overhead Troubleshooting, Part 1 is designed to introduce participants to some basic troubleshooting steps that can be applied [...]
Overhead Troubleshooting, Part 2 – Emergency Conditions
Course description: Overhead Troubleshooting, Part 2 is designed to familiarize participants with some of the basic principles associated with troubleshooting [...]
Pad-Mounted Transformers and Switchgear
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic principles of operation of pad-mounted transformers and switchgear, [...]
Pole Framing and Guying
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach several approaches to framing and guying utility poles. Several types [...]
Pole Top Equipment & Replacement, Part 1
Course description: The Pole Top Equipment and Replacement course is designed to familiarize participants with the various types of pole [...]
Pole Top Equipment & Replacement, Part 2
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach how overhead capacitors and voltage regulators work, how to detect [...]
Pole Top Transformer Replacement
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic procedures used to safely remove and install pole [...]
Rigging for High Voltage Line Work
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic principles of rigging for high-voltage work and to [...]
Rigging, Part 1
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the fundamentals of overhead rigging. The topics covered include three [...]
Rigging, Part 2
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach rigging skills required for tasks often performed in line work. [...]
Safe Bucket Truck Operations
Course description: This course covers aspects of bucket truck safety such as how to avoid accidents, how to lower the [...]
Safety in Overhead Line Maintenance
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach basic safety principles and practices applicable to work on overhead [...]
Safety in Substations and Switchyards
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic safety principles and practices applicable to substation and [...]
Safety in Transmission and Distribution Maintenance
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic safety considerations involved in performing maintenance work on [...]
Safety in Underground Line Maintenance
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic safety principles and practices applicable to underground line [...]
Series and Street Lighting
Course description: Series and Street Lighting is designed to familiarize participants with electrical street lighting systems that use series alternating [...]
Setting and Replacing Poles
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach how to set a pole and two methods of manual [...]
Temporary Structures
Course description: The purpose of this course is to describe why and how temporary structures may be used to support [...]
Transformer Connections, Part 1
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the common types of overhead transformers and how they are [...]
Transformer Connections, Part 2
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach how common types of overhead transformers can be connected together. [...]
Transformer Troubleshooting
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach techniques for troubleshooting single-phase transformers and three-phase transformer banks. The [...]
Transmission
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach participants the purpose and function of the components that make [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Distribution Line Installation and Removal
Course description: Sometimes changes are made in the area around a distribution line that make it necessary to relocate or [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Distribution Line Replacement
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach how to replace conductors in an existing line with new [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Focus on Distribution
Course description: The transmission part of a transmission and distribution system supplies electricity to substations and individual service areas. While [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Framing Specifications and Basic Construction Diagrams
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach participants the kinds of information that can be obtained by [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Introduction to Transmission and Distribution Systems
Course description: The purpose of this interactive online course is to teach participants how transmission and distribution (T&D) systems generally [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Overhead Distribution Systems
Course description: The purpose of this interactive online course is to teach the basic layout of overhead distribution systems, to [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Pad-Mounted Transformers and Switchgear
Course description: The purpose of this interactive online course is to teach the basic principles of operation of pad-mounted transformers [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Power Quality
Course description: This interactive online course is designed to familiarize participants with the issues and problems associated with maintaining power [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Service Installation
Course description: Each service installation job you do will be different because of different site conditions, but the basic installation [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Substations and Switchyards
Course description: Electricity affects almost everything we do. Sometimes its impact is so subtle, we don’t even realize it’s there. [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Transmission Line Installation
Course description: The purpose of this interactive online course is to describe and demonstrate an approach to installing a transmission [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Transmission Line Safety
Course description: This course is designed to cover three major areas relating to safety in transmission line work: personal safety, [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Underground Residential Distribution Systems
Course description: Recent developments in technology, such as the development of cable and equipment that can be directly buried in [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Using Line Test Equipment
Course description: The purpose of this course is to introduce types of line test equipment used in the field to [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Using Various Types of Electrical Diagrams and Geospatial Information Systems
Course description: Did you know different types of electrical system diagrams are used to show large portions of an electrical [...]
Transmission and Distribution: Working on Distribution Poles
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the basic principles involved in working safely on distribution. To [...]
Transmission Line Repair – Bare Hand Method
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the theory and practice involved in using the bare hand [...]
Transmission Line Repair – Hot Sticks
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach the theory and practice involved in safe use of hot [...]
Transmission Structures
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach how transmission structures are built. It is recognized that transmission [...]
Tree Trimming, Part 1
Course description: Tree Trimming, Part 1 is designed to familiarize participants with the basic tasks, equipment, and safety hazards associated [...]
Tree Trimming, Part 2
Course description: Tree Trimming, Part 2 is designed to familiarize participants with procedures and equipment typically associated with emergency line [...]
Troubleshooting Overhead Lines
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach how to go about patrolling overhead lines. The importance of [...]
Underground Cable Installation
Course description: The purpose of this course is to teach two methods of underground cable installation: direct burying and installation [...]
