By Laudia Sawer
Tema, Aug. 20, GNA – The Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), in collaboration with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Training Centre, has held a one-day international technical exchange seminar for engineers and technicians.
A total of 40 engineers and technicians were drawn from the Bui Power, Volta River Authority (VRA), Ministry of Energy, Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Aksa, Karpowership, Early Power, Asogli Power Plant, ECG, and DWA Renewables.
Mr Sthit Sharma, the Sales Manager for East and West Africa for SEL, said the free seminar was the second edition being organised by the company for the utility and industrial market in Ghana.
He said the training would provide the participants with knowledge on the latest technological upgrade, automation of substations, managing the penetration of renewable sources like wind, and conventional generation protection for hydro and thermal generators.
Again, it would enhance their knowledge on how to control the storage of renewable energy and the management of the grid, as well as travel wave technology, which was the latest advanced technology for fault location on transmission lines.
“We have a lot of technology that is useful for both the energy and industrial sectors. Ghanaians for many years have adopted the SEL technology,” Mr Sharma said.
He indicated that feedback from the 2024 training was good and based on that, the training agenda was modified for this year’s programme, and in addition the ECG had also suggested what was required for both new and old engineers.
Mr Godfred Mensah, the Director of the ECG Training Centre, said the idea behind the international exchange programme was to impart knowledge to engineers and technicians in Ghana.
He said one of the main objectives of the ECG Training Centre was to train technical staff in Ghana, West Africa and beyond.
“This has marketed us very well. It’s been able to share a lot of knowledge with our engineers from various utility companies in the country, and we know that by this approach, knowledge will be transferred to our technical staff to be able to boost our performance in Ghana’s power sector,” he said
Mr Mensah said by collaborating with SEL, they would be able to run some of their courses both online and in person, and that as part of the programme, SEL would donate several equipment to the training Centre to help prepare engineers to understand power systems, protection and control, automation among other things, to be abreast with the emerging technologies in the world.
He stated that through the collaboration, ECG would be gaining the opportunity and a platform for professionals to share knowledge, secure equipment to run its labs at the training centre, and secure partnership for online and in-person training.
GNA
Edited by Christabel Addo