Achieve New Possibilities For Your Workforce With Industry Leading Training Solutions

Enhance your qualifications to ensure project safety and maintain reliability.

The utility industry is facing many workforce-related challenges, from a loss of knowledge and skills through retirements, to engineering and technological gaps as grid modernization projects advance.TRC’s Power Academy is helping to mitigate these impacts by building the critical, technical, safety and business qualifications required for success. 

Built by industry subject matter experts and instructional design professionals, our training program is aligned to industry standards, regulatory requirements and evolving technology and equipment specifications. Our courses meet the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP) and are approved by the International Electrical Testing Association (NETA). We offer Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuous Technical Development (CTDs) credits.

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Empower the Evolving Power Workforce With TRC Power Academy

Our cache of best practices, proven processes and lessons learned from the safety and human performance industry, combined with the science and psychology of human learning, makes us one of the top experts in designing, developing and delivering high-quality training systems and materials for the power sector. Our approach ensures that topics are developed and taught logically and practically, leading to lasting and continuous improvements for employees.

Our instructors are engineers with extensive experience in the utility industry. They stay current with industry standards, such as those from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state utility regulators. With local and national knowledge, they ensure team members stay up to date with industry regulations.

Learn online through self-paced instruction or take hands-on classes at our well-equipped training facility.

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Our State of the Art Training Center

TRC’s training center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, provides a fully equipped mock substation with a control house and yard environment that simulates real-world conditions and scenarios. We train on equipment including:

  • AC distribution panels
  • DC distribution panels
  • Battery charger
  • Circuit breaker simulators
  • CCTV simulators
  • Power transformer simulators
  • VT simulator
  • SF6 gas circuit breaker

With two large classrooms that leverage interactive technologies, we offer a controlled environment for structured training sessions. This enables our students to develop proficiency, efficiency and consistency in hands-on tasks, such as testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, adherence to industry standards, policies and procedures,  safety and quality, planning, communication and risk reduction.

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Testimonials

Learners within our programs share their experiences with our curriculum and instructors.

“The Power Fundamentals course was a great class for anyone looking to gain foundational electrical knowledge coming from a nontechnical role like mine as a Project Manager”

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“The knowledge I gained from the TRC Power Academy course will help me enhance my skills in the field”

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“The Mobile Lab training provided great opportunity to gain hands-on experience without the fear of making a mistake. “

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“Practical application and examples were excellent. Instructors were knowledgeable and kept the class well engaged during the course.”

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Achieve Your Workforce Development Goals With TRC 

At TRC, we offer diverse training opportunities to educate individuals or an entire workforce. With our learning solutions, participants will:

  • Become equipped with the skills needed to effectively, efficiently, and safely perform field work all while delivering a quality service.
  • Master skills by performing hands-on activities that closely mimic real-work scenarios.
  • Learn from subject matter experts in small class sizes.
  • Network with industry professionals and develop lifelong professional relationships.
  • In-person facilitator or instructor-led sessions

Our classes support technical knowledge, regulatory standards, health and safety and emerging technologies within the utility industry. Features include:

  • Virtual instructor-led training sessions
  • On-the-job training systems
  • Self-paced, web-based training
  • Interactive videos and animations
  • Coaching and mentoring reinforcement systems
  • Social learning systems
  • Employee performance-centric learning system

Course Offerings

Online, Instructor-Led

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Advance Your Knowledge and Skills Your Way

We offer a pre-planned or customizable curriculum covering technical and nontechnical coursework for utility teams of any skill level. Our training opportunities include:

  • Training webinars: Access live courses — conceptual and practical — virtually.
  • Technical courses: Full, multi-day sessions covering essential topics.
  • Professional skills: Nontechnical training to help navigate a changing workplace.
  • Custom training: Develop coursework specific to your organization and processes.

Empowering the Utility Workforce.

Learn more about how our training program will help you gain the qualifications you need to successfully complete modern power utility projects.

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Join TRC Power Academy and Advance Your Career Today 

TRC equips individuals and  teams with the knowledge and skill to succeed in complex electric utility work. We offer everything from fundamental courses to focused technical training to customized curriculum that meets your utility’s requirements. Contact Us Online for more information. 

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Sharing Our Perspectives

Our practitioners share their insights and perspectives on the trends and challenges shaping the market.

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Videos

Webinar Replay: Substation Automation – Best Practices for IEC 61850 Implementation

March 29, 2022

Modernizing utility equipment, standards and processes pays dividends for improved safety, security and reliability. But transitioning to a new high-tech system model can be challenging.

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Insights

The Best Process for Transforming Thermal Generation Power Plants

February 9, 2022

Faced with an aging fleet, stricter environmental regulations, reduced costs for natural gas and competition from renewables, more than 600 power plants have been decommissioned in the last 20 years, a pace that will increase with the announced closure of nearly 350 additional plants by 2025.

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Amplifying the Next Phase of Fleet Electrification: The Pickup

September 30, 2021

TRC’s analysis for one client fleet shows that even a $70,000 EV can compete on cost with a comparable gas-hybrid vehicle priced at $40,000 – at least in California where upfront and ongoing incentives stack up quickly.

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TRC Acquires Montreal’s Quatric, Expanding Digital Capabilities for Utilities

June 16, 2021

Today, TRC announced the expansion of its digital capabilities with the acquisition of Quatric, a Montreal, QC and Quincy, MA-based firm that provides engineering services and technology solutions to electric and gas utilities.

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TRC Ranked No. 20 on Annual List of Top U.S. Design Firms

May 9, 2021

TRC has once again been named one of the top engineering firms in the country by Engineering News-Record, finishing No. 20 on the publication’s annual list of the Top 500 design firms.

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TRC Companies Welcomes New Power Sector President Ed Myszka

September 2, 2020

Myszka brings over 30 years of innovation, market development and operations experience to TRC.

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Microgrids: A mega-opportunity for electric utilities

June 2, 2020

For the traditional electric utility business model, microgrids could be perceived as a financial threat. But we see many ways microgrids can be both moneymakers and cost-savers for utilities.

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MCE Announces Partner for Comprehensive Energy Storage Program

May 12, 2020

TRC will help support MCE’s community and vulnerable customer resiliency efforts

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Energy Efficiency as a Resource in Southern California

March 19, 2020

EE as a Resource programs that provide capacity and energy savings to the grid must be dependable and persistent to replace essential power plant capacity.

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Resilient, Distributed Energy as a Vital Public Service

February 26, 2020

Implementing resilient solutions for many means ensuring power supply to critical facilities, emergency response efforts and local authorities during power outages.

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Why TRC is Teaming Up with Opus One Solutions

June 13, 2019

TRC is partnering with Opus One Solutions to help utilities to seamlessly plan, build and manage the grid of tomorrow.

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Regulatory Updates

NERC Addresses Single Points of Failure in Protection Systems Among Other FERC Concerns

October 25, 2018

In a world where energy supply and consumption are becoming increasingly dynamic and complex, energy providers are still expected to maintain a standard of safe, reliable and resilient power delivery. Distributed energy resources (DERs) – small-scale units of local generation connected to the grid at the distribution level that often include battery storage, electric vehicles (EVs), EV charging stations and residential solar – and associated business models are proliferating at a staggering rate. Traditional utility customers are transitioning from interacting with consumers to networking with prosumers, and utilities are facing pressure to become more sophisticated as policymakers push to shrink carbon footprints. Under this lens, traditional utility planning tools are insufficient. These tools have not fully embraced the potential or the expansion of DERs within power networks, where the increased penetration of DERs has the capability to wreak havoc on grid resiliency. Whether it be photovoltaic  plus battery storage or EVs and fleet charging, it is imperative to be able to assess the locational impact of each resource in a timely manner. Traditional planning tools leverage a brute force method, requiring a significant amount of an engineering time to conduct one-off studies. But dynamic network tools that quickly model parallel simulations become a necessity to validate load flow calculations and understand the dynamic hosting capacity on areas of the network. Planning tools need to become more automated and integrate better with the utility’s back office systems to help reduce the time required to conduct an engineering analysis. For certain utilities, using traditional tools to validate the network model and load flow calculations could require four to six hours per circuit, and in some cases more than 20 hours. Multiply that by 1,000 circuits – as well as adding in the complexity of optimization-based problems such as DER location, storage dispatch and hosting capacity – and utilities are faced with a significant amount of time required just to conduct the studies, let alone being able to use the results.

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TRC Expands Presence in Power Market with Acquisition of Ohio-based IJUS

October 1, 2018

LOWELL, Mass. – TRC, a leading provider of end-to-end engineering, consulting and construction management solutions fueled by innovative technology, announced today it has acquired IJUS, a top power/utility engineering firm based in Gahanna, Ohio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TRC and partners win $1 million grant for engineering innovative New York microgrid

April 20, 2017

TRC is proud to support Huntington, NY bolster power reliability and climate-change resiliency with a sophisticated new “community microgrid’’ combining solar energy, a fuel cell, biogas and traditional natural gas to deliver electricity and heat to local customers and institutions.

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TRC Acquires Utility Support Systems, Inc.

July 22, 2013

TRC Companies has acquired Georgia-based Utility Support Systems, Inc. , a professional engineering company primarily supporting the power/utility market.