Largo, Florida – September 29, 2011 – Beckwith Electric held its annual Protection Seminar last month in Clearwater Beach, Florida. Participants from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and as far away as Japan attended the seminar, which included an in-depth study of generator, transformer, and distributed generation (DG) interconnection protection and motor bus transfer. The seminar builds the background needed to understand these complex subjects, even for those with a limited knowledge of power system protection standards and practice.
Beckwith Electric is now registering attendees for its 2012 Protection Seminar to be held July 16-19, in Clearwater Beach, Florida at the Sandpearl Resort. This seminar includes four days of intensive training and instruction, course materials, and the opportunity to interact with our knowledgeable instructors in a casual classroom environment. Participant interaction is encouraged to gain from the shared experiences of others. Opportunities to discuss needs-based case studies and examples are available throughout the seminar.
The Beckwith Electric Protection Seminar provides 3.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) through IEEE. The IEEE maintains an official registry of all CEUs awarded. This makes accounting to state licensing boards an easier task for our seminar participants. One CEU is equal to ten contact hours of instruction in a continuing education activity. Many states require Professional Development Hours to maintain P.E. licensure, encouraging engineers to seek CEUs for their participation in Continuing Education Programs. IEEE CEUs readily translate into PDHs (1 CEU = 10 PDHs).
Who should attend? Utility engineers, consultants (especially those involved with IPP/DG design), equipment/control engineers, generator packager and manufacturer engineers as well as others who specify protective relays and develop settings for these devices.
Register early and save! 15% Early Bird Discount for registering before the end of 2011! Deadline for registration is Friday, June 29, 2012. The seminar cost is $1,225 and includes all course materials, breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon breaks, and a Sunday evening welcome reception. 10% group discount applies for 3+ attendees from the same company.
The Protection Seminar, daily breakfast and lunch, Sunday reception, and the Tuesday night hospitality & hands-on lab will be held in Clearwater Beach, Florida at the Sandpearl Resort. The resort overlooks the picturesque Gulf of Mexico and sits on 700 feet of Clearwater’s white sandy beachfront. There will be a Factory Tour during the course of the seminar at the Beckwith Electric Factory.
Additional information is available at www.protectionseminar.com or visit www.beckwithelectric.com/protection.
About Beckwith Electric
Founded in 1967, Beckwith Electric introduced the first solid state tapchanger control in 1968, and was the first to develop the microprocessor protective relay in 1981. Today, Beckwith Electric has thousands of protection and control units in service worldwide, with a reputation for cutting-edge technology, defined by its customers and refined by Beckwith. This success starts with Beckwith Electric Employees and their commitment to quality in the products, all 100% designed and manufactured in Largo, Florida, U.S.A.
Beckwith’s field-proven smart distribution automation controls for transformers, regulators and capacitor banks incorporate unique control strategies, advanced microprocessor architecture and cyber security compliant communications. Power systems protection solutions include generator, transformer, feeder, recloser and distributed generation applications. Specialized synchronizing and motor bus transfer systems are also offered.
Beckwith Electric’s customers include power utilities, heavy industrial and large institutional markets, and their consultants.
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