UPCOMING EVENTS
System strength training
22 - 25 June 2026 (25 June half-day)
Quay West Suites, Melbourne
In-person only event
Presenter: Babak Badrzadeh
Target Audience for this technical course includes:
Power System Planning and Operational Engineers involved in the design, operation, planning and management of power systems.
Energy Policy and Regulation Personnel working in regulatory bodies or organisations that govern power system planning, operations, and market mechanisms who have an engineering background.
Grid Connection Engineers responsible for assessing the impact of system strength on generator performance and grid connections.
Renewable Energy Developers working on renewable energy zones (REZs) and integrating renewable technologies into power systems.
Academics and Researchers studying power systems stability, dynamics, and quality, and exploring innovative mitigation measures or screening methods.
Course fees: AUD 3,800 plus GST pp. Earlybird rate until 22 May: AUD 3,300 plus GST pp.
About the course:
A 3.5-day intensive training program covering the fundamentals of system strength, its implications for planning, operations and grid connections, power quality and protection challenges, and practical screening methods. The course is intended for power system engineers, planners, network operators, renewable energy developers, OEMs, consultants, regulators and technical managers who need to understand how system strength is changing in power systems with high levels of inverter-based resources. It is particularly relevant for those involved in system planning, real-time operations, connection studies, power quality, protection, and the assessment of grid-following and grid-forming inverter technologies.
Participants will gain a clearer and more practical understanding of why system strength is no longer just a fault-level issue, and how low system strength can affect stability, voltage waveform quality, protection performance, inverter control behaviour and project risk. The course is designed to help attendees make better technical judgements, ask more informed questions, interpret study results more effectively, and identify credible mitigation options such as synchronous condensers, grid-forming inverters and control-system tuning. As the technical performance envelope of modern power systems continues to evolve, this course provides a structured and practical way to build confidence in one of the most important challenges for secure and efficient grid transformation.