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Power System Control and Stability

A power system is stable until it is not, and the transition takes seconds. This course covers the behaviour behind that. Delegates work through frequency and voltage control and the hierarchy from primary response through to tertiary dispatch, rotor angle stability and the mechanisms of transient and small signal instability, and voltage stability and collapse. Excitation systems, governors and power system stabilisers are covered as the controls that decide the outcome. Substantial attention goes to declining system inertia as conventional plant is displaced, which is changing the stability picture across the region, and the course closes on studies, defence plans and the analysis of actual system events.

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Course objectives

  • Explain frequency and voltage control across the response hierarchy
  • Distinguish transient, small signal and voltage stability
  • Describe excitation systems, governors and power system stabilisers
  • Assess the effect of declining inertia on frequency response
  • Specify and interpret stability studies
  • Design defence plans including load shedding and islanding
  • Analyse a system event and identify what determined the outcome

Who should attend

  • System operations and control engineers
  • Utility planning engineers
  • Protection and control engineers
  • Power system analysts and consultants
  • Regulators and grid code authorities

Course outline

  1. 01Frequency control and the response hierarchy
  2. 02Voltage control and reactive power
  3. 03Rotor angle stability: transient and small signal
  4. 04Voltage stability and collapse
  5. 05Excitation, governors and power system stabilisers
  6. 06Inertia decline and its consequences
  7. 07Stability studies and their assumptions
  8. 08Defence plans, load shedding and islanding
  9. 09Event analysis

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Power System Control and Stability
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
12 to 16 October 2026Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
15 to 19 October 2026London, United KingdomClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
25 to 29 October 2026London, United KingdomClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
28 November to 2 December 2026Kampala, UgandaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
9 to 13 December 2026Lusaka, ZambiaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
9 to 13 December 2026Mbabane, EswatiniClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now

Power System Control and Stability

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