Introduction to the Natural Gas and Electric Utility Industry

1. Plain English explanations of numerous gas & electric utility industry terms
2. What is natural gas the different types of natural gas and electric measurement units and conversions, key consumption sectors and demand
3. The terminology, concepts and mechanics of the utility industry infrastructure components and how the utility industry operates across the value chain spectrum.
4. Where the gas supply is, how gas is produced, related production economic issues and the relationship to current supply issues, concerns and directions.
5. What gas gathering is, how it works and is managed and what are the economic issues and concerns of the other parts of the infrastructure value chain.
6. What happens at different gas processing stages and NGL extraction flows.
7. What "pipeline quality gas" is and the different concerns along the value chain about gas quality and interchangeability.
8. Various power generation technologies and the capital and operating costs of each.
9. Data collection through the metering function and billing process.
10. Energy usage load profiles and their use in utility system planning and operation

• Conduct a thorough review of the gas & electric industries.
• Data collection and billing systems
• Customer and system load information
• System design principles based on energy usage profiles
• Power generation technology for base load and peak load
• Overview of federal and state level regulators
• Discuss the major regulatory changes that created the energy marketplace of today.

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1. Learn at your own pace and on your own schedule as you first enjoy the internet-streamed, on-demand seminar. Speed up, slow down, or repeat sections of the presentation.
2. Upon completion, join us for one of our regularly scheduled live online Q&A sessions. A calendar of live Q&A dates and times is provided in the program access instructions you will receive. You can also email your questions directly to the instructor.

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The on-demand training presentations are available for a total of 30 days from the time any one of the training presentations is first accessed. After 30 days, your access to the on-demand presentations will expire. However the PDF formatted training program slides and other documents you receive are yours to keep.

Jim Crist is President of Lumen Group, Inc. headquartered in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. He has over 27 years experience in the energy industry covering coal, gas, oil, propane, and electricity. Jim has conducted many strategic studies of the industry and prepared market and business assessments for several large energy companies. Before founding Lumen Group in 1996, Jim spent 20 years working for major energy companies in engineering, technology development, rate and regulatory policy development and marketing. He served as marketing vice president in both regulated and deregulated entities.  His consulting practice provides strategic planning, marketing and business development, and rate and regulatory consulting, along with serving as an expert witness in regulatory proceedings in several jurisdictions.

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