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Jan 14 - Dec 9, 2025
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The engineering webinar series is comprised of 12 webinars offered each month from January through December 2025. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all 12 webinars at a discounted price. Group pricing is also available.
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Jan 16 - Dec 11, 2025
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The CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series covers various organizational accounting topics and is comprised of 12 webinars from January through December 2025. Webinars can be taken individually or as an entire series; by registering for the full series, you will receive all 12 webinars at a discounted price.
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Oct 2 - 30, 2025
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This three-part webinar series provides utility-specific information on artificial intelligence.
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Oct 14, 2025
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Underground power is common in new subdivisions and in conversions from overhead distribution to underground distribution. In this webinar, you will explore installation techniques for underground cable systems, including sizing conduit and pulling tension limits. Beyond engineering, cable handling issues such as bending radius, use of rollers, and cable accessories will be addressed.
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Oct 14 - 16, 2025
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Kimpton Palladian Hotel - Seattle, Washington
Join us for the HR and Labor Relations Conference, formerly know as the Labor and Employee Relations Group Conference. This annual event brings together labor relations leaders and human resources professionals to share experiences, recommendations, and lessons learned about key labor relations and human resources issues.
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Oct 14 - 15, 2025
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Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington
This course is one of three needed to earn a Leadership Skills Certificate. The leader's role in facilitating performance will be described, along with ways of dealing with challenges such as denial and reluctance to accept accountability.
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Oct 15 - 16, 2025
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Develop a mastery of your Word documents in this two-part course. Upon successful completion, you will be able to:Use advanced selection techniques, create and use styles, use the navigation pane effectively, use outline view, and more.
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Oct 15, 2025
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This course focuses on crafting and refining prompts to optimize interactions with conversational artificial intelligence systems. You will learn techniques to create effective, precise, and context-aware prompts that improve the accuracy and usefulness of AI responses. The course explores prompt structure, iterative refinement, and tailoring prompts for specific tasks.
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Oct 22, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This one-day meeting will include a morning roundtable discussion and afternoon training provided by the Oregon Secretary of State's Archives Division.
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Oct 28, 2025
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Although electricity is one necessity that Americans cannot do without, many consumers are remarkably uninformed and misinformed on how to understand and control their energy usage
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Oct 29, 2025
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Securing grant funding is a major achievement—but it’s just the beginning. Join Energy Northwest for a webinar designed to help public power grant recipients successfully navigate the critical next steps of post-award grant management. Learn how to implement effective reporting, meet compliance requirements, communicate with funders, and avoid common pitfalls.
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Oct 30, 2025
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In this course, you will unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to streamline your daily tasks and supercharge your productivity. This hands-on webinar will help you harness the power of AI to reduce manual work, eliminate repetitive tasks, and optimize business processes. You will learn ways to integrate AI into everyday applications, design smart workflows, and make data-driven decision
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Nov 3 - 6, 2025
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Kootenai Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Rathdrum, Idaho
This new boot camp condenses six popular courses from our Lineworker Skills Series into a focused, four-day program. During the boot camp, you will gain valuable knowledge and practical skills in critical areas to enhance your safety, efficiency, and confidence on the job. The program combines theory and hands-on sessions to provide a comprehensive learning experience.
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Nov 4, 2025
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The best-designed power line is useless without land to build it on. Acquiring easements from property owners to cross over their land and potentially cut their trees may be the hardest part of distribution line staking. In this webinar, you will learn best practices for obtaining easements and review pitfalls to avoid.
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Nov 4 - 5, 2025
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Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington
The MARC Union-Labor Relations program increases the skills and confidence of frontline supervisors to serve as management's frontline representatives in dealing with employees, stewards, and officers of the union. Additionally, top-level managers are trained to delegate and support frontline supervisors.
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Nov 4 - 6, 2025
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Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative - Huntley, Montana
This comprehensive course is designed to guide you through any negotiation experience with an emphasis on labor management contract negotiations. More than just information on how and what to do, this course focuses equally on what not to do. The class includes interactive activities to build and improve your skill sets so you can continue to hone them well after the course concludes.
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Nov 13, 2025
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Every interaction is an opportunity to build commitment and capability. Your daily interactions are the heartbeat of your working relationships. Are your interactions boosting the commitment and capability of those you lead? This course will introduce proven principles and skills for interacting effectively in a variety of leadership situations and enable you to apply them.
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Nov 13, 2025
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This deep dive starts with the essentials of Excel's conditional formatting and then takes off quickly. You will learn to call out interesting data using colors, icons, or data bars.
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Nov 18, 2025
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High bills are the number one concern of all utility customers. As a result, when consumers come calling with these concerns, it is the biggest opportunity that the utility has to serve, to assist, and to educate these customers. It is also one of the biggest challenges.
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Dec 1, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This one-day class will cover necessary safety considerations to keep you safe while performing or observing electrical and mechanical tests on substation equipment. Testing concepts will be briefly covered, with the day focused on the hazards associated with the most common tests performed on transformers, power circuit breakers, instrument transformers, and battery systems.
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Dec 2, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This one-day class will cover the basics of testing and maintaining power circuit breakers commonly seen in substations. The focus will be on gas-insulated, oil-insulated, and vacuum circuit breakers.
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Dec 2 - 4, 2025
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Marriott Tacoma Downtown - Tacoma, Washington
The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.
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Dec 3, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This one-day class will cover the basics of sulfur hexafluoride, a common insulating gas used in substation power circuit breakers. You will learn about the fundamentals of SF6; its associated hazards; gas testing theory and practice; and gas handling practices. You will also learn techniques to find breaker leaks and repair them both safely and effectively.
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Dec 3 - 4, 2025
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This workshop combines two of the Manager as Leader series classes: Lead Teams and Coach for Success.
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Dec 9 - 18, 2025
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What Every Professional Needs to Know is made up of three two-part webinars that provide utility-specific information directed toward administrative assistants and executive secretaries who want to become more effective in managing their tasks and in communicating with others.
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Dec 9, 2025
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Three-phase pad-mounted transformers can be expensive items for an electric utility. In this webinar, you will gain a better understanding of industry standards that apply to three-phase pad-mounted transformers, as well as the different options available in the marketplace. The presentation will also include the specification and application of these units.
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Dec 9 - 10, 2025
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This two-part course is for Excel users who regularly spend too much time manipulating data into the right format before they even begin to analyze it. Get and Transform (aka Power Query) can perform repetitive data cleansing such as deleting rows and columns, merging data from various data sources, and fixing layout issues without macros or VBA.
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Dec 10 - 11, 2025
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Springhill Suites Kennewick - Kennewick, Washington
This course is one of the three courses needed to earn a Leadership Skills Series Certificate. The SLII Experience foundation lies in teaching leaders to diagnose the needs of an individual or a team, and then to use the appropriate leadership style to respond to the needs of the person.
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Dec 11, 2025
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During this session, you will evaluate how deployments of artificial intelligence can benefit accounting and finance activities, modernize processes and reporting using AI to free up time for the utility's other financial needs, discuss areas where errors can be prevented using AI, and consider AI in risk management, financial planning, detection of fraud, and strategic decision-making.
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Jan 6 - 8, 2026
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This comprehensive three-day training will guide you through any negotiation experience with emphasis on labor management contract negotiations. More than just information on how and what to do, this course focuses equally on what not to do. The class includes interactive exercises for hands-on practice to build and improve skill sets so you can continue to hone them well after the course conclude
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Jan 13 - 15, 2026
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Benton PUD - Kennewick, Washington
The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities will also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.
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Jan 15 - 29, 2026
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The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.
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Jan 15, 2026
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The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.
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Jan 22, 2026
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The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.
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Jan 27, 2026
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Sheraton Portland Airport - Portland, Oregon
Join us for this one-day conference to gain insights into strategies for addressing the multifaceted challenges wildfires pose to utilities in the West. As wildfires continue to threaten our region, collaboration is essential.
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Jan 28, 2026
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Sheraton Portland Airport - Portland, Oregon
This new summit addresses the load growth challenges that come with the rapid need to build and deploy massive data centers as artificial intelligence and other technologies consume a massive amount of power. As public power utilities respond to the rise of high-demand customers, everything from generation and transmission to key account team growth, grid integrity, and more must be examined.
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Jan 29, 2026
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Sheraton Portland Airport - Portland, Oregon
The NWPPA Power Supply Conference provides the expertise and insight needed to inform power supply decisions. In this new era of dynamic resource options and challenges, managing and planning for power resources and costs have never been more critical to utilities and their consumers. The 2026 Power Supply Conference will educate, encourage discussion, and provide a venue for attendees to share.
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Jan 29, 2026
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The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.
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Feb 9 - 12, 2026
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Flathead Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Kalispell, Montana
Phase 1 of the Three-Phase Staking Technician Certification Program covers basic surveying; overhead/pole-line structure design and layout; joint-use staking and make-ready surveys; and unique structures. To receive certification, you must complete all three phases and successfully pass the online examinations. Phases 1, 2, and 3 do not need to be taken in order.
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Feb 11, 2026
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Flathead Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Kalispell, Montana
Solar and battery energy storage systems are becoming more common, and utilities need to be well versed in the requirements of IEEE 1547 and the requirements of the NEC related to these systems. This course will focus on inverter-based systems such solar and BESS.
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Feb 24 - 25, 2026
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Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington
This two-day course focuses on the application of protective devices within a distribution system. You will discover how to apply best practices for protecting transformers and equipment while maintaining the highest reliability possible, including coordinating with distribution feeders and downline devices.
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Feb 24 - 26, 2026
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Graduate by Hilton Eugene - Eugene, Oregon
The Foreman Leadership Certificate Program is a highly interactive program designed to support the development of skills needed to lead operations crews in the electric utility industry. Activities, both inside and outside, reinforce learning and provide opportunities to practice and develop skills. The activities will also keep the participants engaged and energized during the long program days.
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Mar 2 - 5, 2026
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Kootenai Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Rathdrum, Idaho
In this Spring Lineworker Boot Camp, participants will complete seven courses designed to strengthen both technical skills and safety practices, including: DOT Truck/Trailer Inspections; ARC Flash Hazard ID and Compliance; Cable Splicing & Termination; Phasing & Testing; Rigging; Insulate Isolate; Basic Transformers.
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Jun 1 - 3, 2026
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Holiday Inn Missoula Downtown - Missoula, Montana
This three-day course is part of the Comprehensive Staking Technician Certification Program. You will learn the basic and advanced methods of line route surveying, including a basic overview of GPS and its application to line design and staking. To complete the study, you will learn how to transfer paper and electronic field data to hand drawings or computer-aided drafting programs.
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Jun 4 - 5, 2026
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Holiday Inn Missoula Downtown - Missoula, Montana
This one-and-a-half-day course is part of the Comprehensive Staking Technician Certification Program. Experienced line designers say obtaining the right-of-way easement is the toughest part of staking, yet it is an important part. A well-designed power line is of little use if it cannot be built on the land.
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Nov 2 - 5, 2026
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Kootenai Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Rathdrum, Idaho
In this Fall Lineworker Boot Camp, participants will complete six courses designed to build advanced technical skills, strengthen safety practices, and boost confidence on the job, including: Effective Grounding and Bonding Practices; Switching & Tagging; Advanced Transformers; Overhead Troubleshooting; URD Troubleshooting.
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