Tata Power Skill Development Institute - Shahad Centre for Excellence for Power System Skills

Building Skills, Enhancing Employability.

A C S R I n i t i a t i v e About TPSDI Tata Power Company is ’s largest integrated power company with a presence across all the segments of the power sector - Generation (thermal, hydro, solar, and wind), Transmission, Distribution, Fuel Security & Logistics, and Power Trading. Tata Power has been lighting up lives in the nation for over a hundred years. In 2015, its centenary year of operations, Tata Power, true to the Tata Group philosophy of giving back to the society a significant portion of its earnings, has launched the Tata Power Skill Development Institute as a non-profit corporate social responsibility initiative under the Tata Power Community Development Trust.

TPSDI is mandated to provide modular training and certification in power sector and allied skills leading to employability and advancement. TPSDI harnesses the rich experience of Tata Power employees to bring “Power Skills for Life!” to prepare youth and others for the huge opportunities coming up in the power sector in the country. TPSDI is setting up five integrated training centers across India of which, TPSDI - Shahad is the first one.

TPSDI - Shahad Located at Varap village along the -Murbad road, a little over two kilometers from the Shahad Railway Station on the -Kasara-Nasik rail route is TPSDI’s Centre for Excellence for Power System Skills. TPSDI - Shahad is a training centre spread across a sprawling 10-acre campus that provides the extensive space and the infrastructure needed to conduct courses across the whole range of power system skills.

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 Power System live Receiving Station workshop including unique conduit  Well-equipped 22 KV electrical wiring practice facility switchyard  Safety, Health and Environment –  110 KV Transmission Line Towers- facilities to train people on working at Erection & Maintenance heights, Electrical safety – LOTO, PTW  Distribution Line and Pole-mounted  Fully-equipped classrooms with Substation Erection & Maintenance HD projectors  Distribution System – Feeders, panels,  Fully-equipped computer lab metering system, metering testing facility The following facilities at the center make  Electrical Lab equipped with various for a complete training campus: working models of AC, DC Motors,  Canteen Drives  Dormitories and hostels for trainees  Cable-Laying Facility-Handling cable  Guesthouse for faculty drums, practicing laying real cables  Medical emergency services and a  Cable Jointing including LV, HV, & EHV, visiting doctor Cable Termination  Highly secured campus environment  Wiring-Domestic and Industrial Lab and

TPSDI - Shahad : Training Offerings

National Council for Training in the Vocational Trades (NCTVT) - Cable & Lineman Trade What the Course Covers  Course follows the curriculum and pattern as per Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGET) guidelines and norms  Training at Shahad goes beyond the minimum prescribed – Students are also exposed to other skills that prepare them for multi-skilling and multi-tasking

Course Outcome: NCTVT Graduates from the Shahad Center are much sought after by the Industry due to their added capabilities and exposure to realwork situations Cable Laying Skills

drum mounting, cable rolling & laying, and protection  Overview of cables, types and sizes and norms for laying underground cables  Cable-related safety practices like shoring and sloping, work area protection  Safeguards to be taken related to other underground utility service items  Identification and use of tools and What the Course Covers tackles, including inspection, upkeep  Hands-on learning in cable routing, and maintenance Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to assist in cable laying for power distribution, power transmission, and other related areas

Cable Jointing and Termination Skills

different types of joints and terminations  Hands-on learning of cable preparation, cable jointing, termination of LV and HV cables  Understanding EHV cable jointing and termination techniques  Testing and Troubleshooting related to Cable Jointing and Termination  Differences between Indoor and Outdoor cable termination practices  Safety practices including Lock Out and Tag Out and Permit to Work procedures What the Course Covers for cable jointing and termination  Introduction to basics of electricity, AC,  Fire Safety Procedures applicable to DC circuits cable storing, jointing & termination  Introduction to cables, cable types, cable  Identification and use of tools and sizes tackles, including inspection, upkeep  Understanding cable jointing practice and and maintenance

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to prepare, joint, and terminate LV, HV, and EHV cables

Power System Skills

What the Course Covers  Principles and practices related to Installation, operation and maintenance of Transmission System and Equipment  Hot Spot identification using Infra-Red detector  Lightning protection, earthing, tree trimming, and other special line maintenance practices  Operation and maintenance practices and Tag Out and Permit to Work related to grid - substation, GIS and procedures for electrical substation AIS  Fire Safety procedures applicable to an  Hands-on learning on transformers, electrical substation circuit breakers, bus bar, feeders,  AC, DC system, Batteries and Battery current transformer, potential Chargers transformer, wave trap and lightning  Relays, meters and control panel arrestor, gang operating device, wiring earthing system  Installation and maintenance of  Energy Meters - single and three phase. compressor, motor and DG set  Capacitors and reactors installation  Equipment testing, condition and maintenance monitoring, commissioning  Preventive and breakdown procedures and calibration Maintenance Practices  Remote operation of power system  Identification and use of tools and using SCADA tackles, including inspection, upkeep  Legal regulations and statutory and maintenance compliance  Safety practices including Lock Out Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a power system electrician in an electrical substation

Distribution System Skills

 Laying, jointing and termination of LV cables for power supply  Hands-on learning on transformers, circuit breakers, RMU, bus bar, feeders, current transformer, potential transformer and lightening arrestor, gang operating device, earthing system  Erection and maintenance of feeder pillars and sub feeders  Preventive and breakdown maintenance  Identification and use of tools and tackles, including inspection, upkeep and maintenance  Safety practices including Lock Out and Tag Out and Permit to Work procedures for electrical substation  Fire Safety procedures applicable to an electrical substation What the Course Covers  AC, DC system, batteries and battery  Distribution System Skills Chargers  Erection and maintenance of  Relays, meters and control panel distribution substation wiring  Maintenance of pole-mounted  Using GIS for distribution and substation connection management  Distribution energy meters, types and  Load calculation and load balancing uses and management  Installation and maintenance of single  Energy meter testing and phase and three phase energy meters commissioning  Meter reading, AMR, meter defects  Equipment testing, commissioning, and fault / tampering detection condition monitoring and calibration  Troubleshooting and rectification  Legal regulations and statutory compliance

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a Distribution system electrician in an electrical substation

Transmission and Distribution Line Skills cross arm, insulators, line hardware, and bracing  Different types of conductors, their uses, stringing, tensioning and importance of correct sagging, conductor mid-span jointing  Different types of insulators, erection and maintenance  Lightning arrestor, grounding, guard wiring, and guy wiring/pole  Problems and conditions rendering towers, poles and accessories in need of maintenance or replacement  Hands-on learning on usage of derrick for pole erection  Erection of pole-mounted substation,  Tower and pole climbing and protection practice  Tree pruning and periodic maintenance procedures  Identification and use of tools and What the Course Covers tackles, including inspection, upkeep  Understanding Transmission & and maintenance Distribution System planning  Transmission line patrolling, including estimation of material identification of faults, and required rectification  Erection and maintenance of  Hot spot identification using infra-red transmission towers, distribution detector poles, and transmission & distribution  Troubleshooting and rectification lines  Legal regulations and statutory  Accessories for tower and poles like compliance

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a Transmission and Distribution linemen Solar Power Skills - Photovoltaic and Thermal What the Course Covers  Solar PV cells and its uses  Installation and maintenance of solar panels for off-grid and grid connection  Installation and maintenance of solar thermal panels for domestic and industrial heating  Installation and maintenance of domestic solar lighting system Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a Solar technician for either photovoltaic or thermal

Allied Skills - Wireman

 Installation, repair and maintenance of geysers, fans, iron and other modern appliances  Installation and connection of electrical protections like fuse, RCCB, MCB, earthing system etc.  Installation, repair and maintenance of distribution transformer, switch gear, feeder pillar and distribution boards, AC, DC drives, motors, pumps, What the Course Covers contactors and starters  Basics of electricity, AC and DC Circuits  Installation and maintenance of  Types of conductors, sizes and usage battery, battery chargers, invertors  Wiring principles and methods, and UPS drawing and using electric circuits for  Installation and wiring of single-phase various kinds of house and industrial and three-phase energy meters uses like power, lighting, appliances etc.  Testing and trouble shooting  Laying of single phase and three  Safety practices including lock out and phase electric circuits tag out and permit to work  Hands-on learning of various types of procedures for cable jointing and conducts, casing and capping, termination concealed wiring etc.  Fire safety procedures applicable to  Hands-on learning on mounting and cable storing, jointing & termination dismounting of various electrical  Identification and use of right tools accessories and fixtures and and tackles including inspection, connection - switches lights etc. upkeep and maintenance  Laying circuits for telecommunication, cable TV, CCTV, fire alarm system etc.

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a domestic wireman TPSDI Shahad Layout

1. Admin Office 7. Canteen 2. Classroom 1&2 8. Solar Thermal 3. Cable Workshop 9 - 12. Hostel Block 4. Switchyard 13. Auditorium 5. Distribution Lab 14. Workshop 6. Lab Block 15. Electrical Exibits

Contact TPSDI Maj. Shashi Tiwari Mr. Hari Rohra Tata Power Skill Development Institute Tata Power Skill Development Institute - Shahad The Tata Power Company Limited, C/O Tata Power Ambernath Receiving Station, Receiving Station, Parel Tank Road, Varap Village, Kalyan-Murbad Road, Mumbai 400 033, , India Next to Sacred Heart School, Tel: 67172176 extn: 2176 Shahad 421301, Maharashtra, India Mobile: 0982717704 Tel: 67174717 extn: 4717 Mobile: 09223582855 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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