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Jan 14 - Dec 9, 2025
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Engineering Webinar Series: All 12 Webinars

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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.

Jan 16 - Dec 11, 2025
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CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: All 12 Webinars

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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.

Oct 2 - 30, 2025
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Intro to AI for Utility Professionals: All Three Webinars

Online

This three-part webinar series provides utility-specific information on artificial intelligence.

Oct 22, 2025
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Oregon Utilities Records Management Meeting

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.

Oct 28, 2025
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Helping Customers Understand Energy Usage and Conservation Measures

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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

Oct 29, 2025
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You’ve Got the Grant—Now What? Post-Award Navigation for Public Power Projects

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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.

Oct 30, 2025
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Intro to AI for Utility Professionals: AI 103 - Automate Your Workflow

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

Nov 3 - 6, 2025
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Fall Lineworker Boot Camp

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.

Nov 4, 2025
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Engineering Webinar Series: Utility Easement Rights and Obligations

Online

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.

Nov 4 - 5, 2025
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Leadership Skills: Supervising Union Employees

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.

Nov 4 - 6, 2025
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Negotiating Your Collective Bargaining Agreement

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.

Nov 13, 2025
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Manager as Leader: Interact With Impact

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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.

Nov 13, 2025
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Microsoft Office 365 Series: Excel Conditional Formatting

Online

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.

Nov 18, 2025
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Handling High Bill Inquiries

Online

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.

Dec 1, 2025
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Substation Series: Equipment Testing Safety Orientation

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.

Dec 2, 2025
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Substation Series: Power Circuit Breaker Testing

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.

Dec 2 - 4, 2025
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Foreman Leadership Certificate Program Part 2

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.

Dec 3, 2025
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Substation Series: SF6 Basics and Leak Repair Techniques

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.

Dec 3 - 4, 2025
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Manager as Leader: Lead Teams and Coach for Success

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

This workshop combines two of the Manager as Leader series classes: Lead Teams and Coach for Success.

Dec 9 - 18, 2025
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Administrative Professionals Series: What Every Professional Needs to Know

Online

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.

Dec 9, 2025
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Engineering Webinar Series: Sizing Three-Phase Transformers

Online

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.

Dec 9 - 10, 2025
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Microsoft Office 365 Series: Excel Get and Transform

Online

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.

Dec 10 - 11, 2025
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Leadership Skills: Understanding SLII Work Styles

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.

Dec 11, 2025
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CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Using AI to Enhance Accounting and Finance Processes

Online

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.

Jan 6 - 8, 2026
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Negotiating Your Collective Bargaining Agreement

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

Jan 13 - 15, 2026
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Foreman Leadership Certificate Program Part 1

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.

Jan 15, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Aligning Capital Planning With Strategic Goals

Online

During this session, you will understand the relationship between capital budgeting and long-term strategic plans, analyze the financial impact of deferring vs. accelerating capital projects, evaluate prioritization frameworks for capital spending, and integrate financial forecasting into capital investment decisions.

Jan 15 - 29, 2026
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Communicators Series: All Three Webinars

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The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.

Jan 15, 2026
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Communicators Series: The Fun in Connection

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The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.

Jan 15 - Dec 17, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: All 12 Webinars

Online

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

Jan 22, 2026
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Communicators Series: Myth Busting

Online

The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.

Jan 27, 2026
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Wildfires: What Utilities Need to Know

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.

Jan 28, 2026
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Data Center and Load Growth Summit

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.

Jan 29, 2026
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Power Supply Conference

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.

Jan 29, 2026
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Communicators Series: Marketing Made Simple

Online

The Communicator Webinar Series is made up of three webinars.

Feb 2 - 4, 2026
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Staking Technician Certification Program: NESC and Utility Specifications

Graduate by Hilton Eugene - Eugene, Oregon

This three-day course is part of the Staking Technician Certification Program and will provide you with a working knowledge of the National Electrical Safety Code and its application. The NESC establishes the rules used in the design and maintenance of power systems. Following this course, you will better understand grounding, overhead line clearances, overload factors, strength reduction factors,

Feb 5 - 6, 2026
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Staking Technician Certification Program: Obtaining Permits

Graduate by Hilton Eugene - Eugene, Oregon

This one-and-a-half-day course is part of the Staking Technician Certification Program. Today, property owners are more reluctant to give right-of-way easements for overhead or underground power lines. Consequently, more use is being made of existing public rights of way. To do this, permits must be obtained from the governing agency. This course equips attendees with the skills to obtain these.

Feb 9 - 12, 2026
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Staking Technician Certification Program - Phase 1

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.

Feb 11, 2026
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Interconnection of Residential Solar and Battery Energy Storage Systems

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.

Feb 12, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Advanced Cash Flow Forecasting and Liquidity Management

Online

During this session, you will differentiate between direct and indirect cash flow forecasting methods, model cash flow scenarios under rate tariff, capital, and financing assumptions, develop liquidity stress tests tailored to utility operations and deep dive into cash-related ratios, and optimize reserve levels while balancing member returns and risk tolerance.

Feb 24 - 25, 2026
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Distribution Engineering Series: Overcurrent Protection

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.

Feb 24 - 26, 2026
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Foreman Leadership Certificate Program Part 1

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.

Mar 2 - 5, 2026
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Spring Lineworker Boot Camp

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.

Mar 3 - 4, 2026
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Introduction to Rates and Cost of Service

Northwest Public Power Association - Vancouver, Washington

During this course, you will learn the concepts behind cost-of-service studies and utility rate development. You will also gain insight into gathering and analyzing data to produce rate options for decision-makers, guided by the perspectives of experienced consultants and utility insiders.

Mar 19, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Accounting for Utility Plant and Long-Lived Assets

Online

During this session, you will apply best practices in utility plant accounting and work orders, navigate RUS and GAAP regulations regarding capitalization and retirement, analyze asset impairment and useful life estimation impacts, improve reconciliation processes between accounting, operations, and engineering, and correlate depreciation procedures to investments.

Apr 16, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Unpacking Debt Management and Cost of Capital

Online

During this session, you will understand the relationship between capital budgeting and long-term strategic plans, analyze the financial impact of deferring vs. accelerating capital projects, evaluate prioritization frameworks for capital spending, and integrate financial forecasting into capital investment decisions.

May 12 - 14, 2026
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Foreman Leadership Certificate Program Part 2

The Wildbirch Hotel - Anchorage, Alaska

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.

May 14, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Revenue Requirements and Rate Design Modeling

Online

During this session, you will understand the relationship between capital budgeting and long-term strategic plans, analyze the financial impact of deferring vs. accelerating capital projects, evaluate prioritization frameworks for capital spending, and integrate financial forecasting into capital investment decisions.

Jun 1 - 3, 2026
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Staking Technician Certification Program: Basic Surveying

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.

Jun 4 - 5, 2026
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Staking Technician Certification Program: Easement Acquisition

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.

Jun 11, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Financial Planning for Grid Modernization and Resilience Investments

Online

During this session, you will learn to quantify the financial impact of advanced metering, DERs, grid automation, and replacement of aging infrastructure, link infrastructure investment to long-term O&M savings projections, understand grant and incentive funding opportunities, and align capital plans with goals.

Jul 16, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Margins, Equity Management, and Patronage Strategies

Online

During this session, you will learn to define equity targets and compare margin-setting philosophies, explore policies for capital credit retirements and member equity, model impacts of margin compression on long-term financial health, and communicate capital credit strategies to boards, members, and employees.

Aug 13, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Financial Analytics to Support Colleagues and Governance Reporting

Online

During this session, you will learn to identify KPIs that bridge financial and operational performance, use benchmarking to assess productivity and cost trends, develop effective reports to share financial insights across departments, and translate financial performance into actionable insights for governance bodies.

Sep 17, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Workforce Planning and Financial Forecasting for Labor and Benefits

Online

During this session, you will learn to analyze labor cost drivers, including wages, overtime, and benefits, model long-term personnel costs, retirements, and benefit obligations, align staffing forecasts with strategic and operational goals, and communicate labor cost trends and projections to leadership and boards.

Oct 15, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Emerging Technologies and Financial Implications

Online

During this session, you will learn to evaluate the cost structures of battery storage, microgrids, and related technologies, understand depreciation and rate recovery considerations for new tech, examine how to finance emerging tech while managing long-term risk, and consider accounting implications for pilot programs and shared investments

Nov 2 - 5, 2026
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Fall Lineworker Boot Camp

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.

Nov 19, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Voluntary ESG Reporting and Transparency Initiatives

Online

During this session, you will learn to understand the landscape of ESG reporting without regulatory mandates, identify data sources and metrics relevant to environmental, social, and governance goals, evaluate the benefits of voluntary disclosures to members and stakeholders, and align ESG communication with cooperative/utility mission and financial stewardship.

Dec 17, 2026

CFO & Senior Accountant Webinar Series: Strategic Budgeting and Forecasting in a Volatile Energy Market

Online

During this session, you will learn to model sensitivity to power costs, load forecasts, and inflation, build rolling forecasts that integrate capital, O&M, and revenue scenarios, translate market trends into actionable budget strategies, and engage stakeholders in cross-functional planning to enhance agility.