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Power & Utilities · Industry Knowledge Challenge
Power Grid & Utility Operations
Twelve questions on the systems that plan, monitor and operate an electric distribution grid — from substation basics to DER, state estimation and synchrophasors. Difficulty rises as you go.
About this challenge
This challenge covers the operational and technical concepts behind an electric utility: how power reaches customers, how the grid is monitored and controlled, and what changes when distributed generation arrives. It is written for engineers, operations and technology leaders working in or around utilities — not for software developers.
12 questions · four knowledge bands (Essential, Professional, Advanced, Expert) · a nonlinear Knowledge Score · no registration, no email required.
- Substations, feeders and how power reaches customers
- SCADA, RTUs and field telemetry
- Protection and restoration: reclosers, tie switches, outage response
- State estimation and the operational network model
- Distributed generation, inverters and voltage management
- Interoperability standards, synchrophasors and wide-area monitoring