As distribution and transmission technologies improve, load area construction complexity increases. Many components contribute to understanding how to properly manage load area balance and interchange.

The Load Characteristics and Management training course discusses characteristics common to load area demand. It also demonstrates how to use load and load-duration curves to help balance interchange scheduling and conduct time error correction. This online training course covers:

• Load characteristic terminology
• Common demand characteristics
• Load and load-duration curve understanding
• Load forecasting and power factor corrections
• Time error correction
• Inadvertent interchange

Load Characteristics and Management is part of the Distribution Systems training series.