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December 1 & 2, 2026
10:00 - 2:00 PM (MST)
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This course will be presented in two (2) “live” online half-day sessions on Tuesday, December 1st and Wednesday, December 2nd. All sessions incorporate high-quality presentations by qualified instructors with Q&A and other opportunities for group interaction. You will receive digital copies of the presentation materials in advance, allowing you to work with them before, during and after the online sessions. The scheduled online sessions will also be recorded and available for viewing for a period of thirty (30) days, enabling participants to work around any scheduling conflicts.
Participants completing this course will receive a certificate for seven (7) Professional Development Hours (PDH).
COURSE OVERVIEW
An electric utility’s distribution system is its most visible and valuable asset, essential to business success and connected to every customer. In addition to delivering energy safely, affordably, and reliably to a traditional electrical load base, today’s distribution system must be robust in its capacity and resilience to support an increasingly electrified economy. This includes connection points and capacity for large data center loads, throughput for distributed energy resources, and infra-structure for communications and information management systems.
This course will address both the technical and business aspects of what it takes to achieve capacity for growth, reliability, resilience, and economy through strategic planning and proactive investment in the distribution infrastructure. COURSE TOPICS
- Current trends in distribution system management (reliability, resilience, automation, costs),
- Examination of best practice options for system performance analytics
- Overview of state-of-the-art planning approaches and tools
- New technologies in infrastructure condition diagnostics
- Overhead and underground component life-cycle management
- Application of economic models to support financing
LEARNING METHODS
This course is applications-oriented, including high-quality presentations Q&A, group interaction, and opportunities to check what you have learned. WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
This course has value for those who work at all levels of distribution planning, design and operation and is intended for:
- Executive management
- System and distribution planning engineers
- Financial planners/analysts
- Distribution design engineers and technicians
- Distribution asset managers (engineering and financial)
- • Consulting engineers
DAILY SESSION SCHEDULE
This course will be presented in two (2) “live” half-day sessions. The planned schedule for each daily session is as follows, subject to some variation based on the level of participant engagement that impacts the pace of presentation. (All times are Mountain Time).
09:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Platform up, running for participant log-in
10:00 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. Session
11: 10 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. Break
11:20 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Session
12:30 p.m. to 12:40 p.m. Break
12:40 p.m. to 01:50 p.m. Session
02:00 p.m. Wrap-up and End of Session COURSE INSTRUCTORS
Course instructors R. John Miner, P.E., and Tom Black, P.E. have over 75 years of combined experience in the electric utility industry, including extensive experience in the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of overhead and underground distribution lines and equipment.  R. John Miner, P.E., President,
Collaborative Learning Inc.
John is an accomplished executive manager and educator with over forty-five years of experience in the electric utility industry. He is president of Collaborative Learning, Inc. of Austin and San Antonio, Texas, a firm that presents management and technical education programs and, through Collaboration Unlimited, provides management consulting services to the electric utility industry. John’s technical seminars and workshops for utilities have covered such topics as application of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), overhead and underground distribution systems, electric system planning, construction, operations, and maintenance. John earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering (with honors), and a Master of Science degree in engineering science, both from the University of Toledo. John is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Texas and Minnesota.
Tom Black, P.E., Technical Consultant and Continuing Education Program Developer and Instructor, Collaborative Learning Inc.
Tom is an accomplished engineer and executive manager who works with Collaborative Learning as a technical consultant and continuing education program developer and instructor. Tom has more than thirty-five (35) years of experience in the electric and gas utility industries including employment with both municipal and investor-owned utilities. Tom teaches courses on such topics as electrical distribution principles, overhead and underground distribution systems, the NESC, electric system planning, construction, operations and maintenance. He earned his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis (with honors) and is a registered professional engineer in the states of Colorado and Arizona. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
REGISTRATION FEE Individual Registration price is $795.
Group discount = $695 per person for any organization that registers three (3) or more people. Each participant from a participating organization is required to be a paid registrant. No group viewing is permitted unless all participants are registered. For larger group pricing, please contact us.
Cancellations are accepted if request is made at least 10 days prior to start of the course. Within 1-7 days or "no show", the full registration fee will be charged. When possible, please send a substitute instead of cancelling. We do not charge a fee for registrant substitutions.
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