SUBREL
Substation reliability evaluation
GR training
Three-Day Power System Reliability Seminar
Available upon request General Reliability offers a customizable three-day power system reliability seminar covering reliability foundations, transmission and substation reliability, distribution reliability, SUBREL, DISREL, TRANSREL, practical case studies, and a Day 1 session on AI, reliability, secure local/on-premise workflows, and automating the automation.
Training can address not only how to run analytical tools, but how to build and validate models, understand assumptions, select appropriate methods, interpret results and communicate conclusions.
The seminar combines classical reliability concepts, practical utility case studies, and hands-on discussion of GR reliability programs:
DISREL
Distribution system reliability evaluation
TRANSREL
Transmission system reliability evaluation
Day 1 — Reliability Foundations and AI-Assisted Workflows
- Reliability, availability, adequacy, security, and resiliency
- Probability of events
- Failure and repair models
- Network modeling
- Complex networks
- Fault trees
- Markov modeling
- Computation of frequency and duration
One-hour special session — AI, Reliability, and Automating the Automation
- What AI can and cannot do in engineering studies
- Secure local/on-premise AI workflows for utilities
- Private document search
- Reliability-study review
- Report preparation
- SUBREL / DISREL / TRANSREL result interpretation
- Connecting Excel, models, reports, files, and human engineering judgment
- Privacy, security, reliability, and human oversight
Day 2 — Transmission and Substation Reliability
- Transmission system reliability methodology
- Reliability indices
- Outage data
- Reliability criteria
- Outage cost
- Utility transmission case studies
- TRANSREL concepts and applications
- Substation reliability methodology
- SUBREL concepts and applications
- Switching/restoration actions
- Stuck breaker/device events
- Common-mode outages
- Load point and system indices
- Utility substation case studies
Day 3 — Distribution Reliability and Practical Implementation
- Distribution system reliability methodology
- Historical and predictive reliability indices
- Outage data
- Customer impact
- DISREL concepts and applications
- Utility distribution case studies
- Simple exercises and test problems
- Organizing input data
- Validating assumptions
- Interpreting results
- Identifying bad actors
- Comparing improvement options
- Preparing management summaries
- Building repeatable reliability workflows
Academic and research collaboration
Academic & Research Collaboration
GR collaborates with university faculty and doctoral researchers on the reliability evaluation of microgrids and other electric-power systems. The objective is to bring an industry perspective to research problem formulation, modeling assumptions, probabilistic methods, result interpretation and practical application.
Research focus areas
- Microgrid reliability and resilience
- Transmission, substation and distribution reliability
- Renewable generation and energy-storage integration
- Common-mode and dependent failures
Methods and technical review
- Probabilistic modeling and risk assessment
- Review of research methodology and model assumptions
- Interpretation and practical relevance of study findings
- Technical mentoring and research presentations
Software use in research
Where appropriate, GR reliability software may be made available for supervised academic research. The scope of use, technical support, attribution, publication treatment and software limitations are agreed separately for each collaboration.