Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty

Programme Overview

High-voltage transmission systems require robust engineering interventions to guarantee operational continuity and cross-border grid stability.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ This intensive four-day professional programme in Almaty provides transmission engineers, dispatch technicians, and substation leads with structured methodologies to address grid vulnerability. Participants evaluate electrical stress, insulation breakdown, and mechanical wear across aging primary equipment. By integrating international asset management standards with modern diagnostic procedures, the course enables transmission utilities to reduce unserved energy, prevent catastrophic component failure, and safeguard critical electrical infrastructure across regional networks.

The curriculum addresses the practical integration of modern Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) platforms and automated substation interfaces. Attendees examine the configuration of modern remote terminal units, intelligent electronic devices, and communications backbones within operational utility environments. Emphasis is placed on international communication protocols, cyber-secure network architectures, and real-time operational data acquisition. Through technical analysis of network automation, engineers develop the capability to oversee legacy control migrations, enhance grid observability, and standardise automated dispatch actions across complex high-voltage operational environments.

Structured operational regimes require disciplined outage management and life-extension strategies to preserve capital and extend asset serviceability. The programme details non-destructive testing, dissolved gas analysis, and dynamic thermal rating techniques for high-voltage transformers and switchgear. Participants review outage planning workflows, contingency analysis frameworks, and switching safety procedures that directly limit system downtime. The practical focus equips engineering teams to implement condition-based maintenance, mitigate unscheduled interruptions, and execute asset modernisations that conform to international power sector procurement and project execution standards.

Transmission systems across the Caucasus and Central Asia face compounded challenges from aging switchgear, historical underinvestment, and increasing cross-border electricity flows.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Large-scale technical investments, such as those financed through the 70.7 million US dollar Energy Supply Reliability and Financial Recovery project, require transmission utilities to upgrade critical dispatch centres, replace obsolete substation equipment, and improve operational transparency. Modernising grid control architectures and establishing rigorous asset reliability regimes are essential prerequisites for reducing high-voltage transmission losses, preventing wide-area supply disruptions, and ensuring that transmission facilities meet rigorous international technical benchmarks.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Almaty, Kazakhstan, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Primary high-voltage equipment degradation mechanisms in switchgear, transformers, and conductors
• Asset health indexing frameworks and condition assessment aligned with ISO 55000
• Insulation diagnostics: Partial discharge detection, power factor testing, and dielectric analysis
• Transformer condition assessment using Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) and IEC 60599 interpretation
• Non-destructive testing protocols and thermographic assessment of switchyard connections
• SCADA system topologies, control room display integration, and telecontrol concepts
• Substation communication architectures based on the IEC 61850 standard and Ethernet backbones
• Integration of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) with legacy Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)
• Climate and environmental risk assessment
• Adaptation and mitigation planning
• Sector strategies for energy, water and land
• Project design for climate and environmental goals

It is designed for high-voltage grid transmission engineers, substation maintenance directors and operational heads, SCADA and telecommunications system engineers and others who want practical, current skills in climate, environment and natural resources.

The Growing Importance of Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty

Climate change, environmental pressure and resource management now shape national plans, budgets and investment decisions. Financiers increasingly expect climate and environmental considerations to be built into projects from the start.

Institutions that can plan for climate risks, manage natural resources well and prepare sound proposals are better placed to protect services and to access the funding available for this work.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets
• Design projects that meet climate and environmental goals
• Prepare proposals that financiers can approve
• Measure and report results credibly
• Work with communities and partners across sectors

Strong climate, environment and natural resources systems help organisations:

• Protect services and infrastructure from climate risks
• Access climate and environmental finance
• Meet national and international commitments
• Use natural resources sustainably

This Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training?

This programme is designed for:

• High-voltage grid transmission engineers
• Substation maintenance directors and operational heads
• SCADA and telecommunications system engineers
• System dispatch control operators and technicians
• Transmission asset management specialists
• Protection and control instrumentation engineers
• Project implementation unit technical specialists
• Power utility maintenance planning supervisors
• Electrical infrastructure quality assurance engineers
• Climate change and environment officers
• Energy, water and agriculture sector staff
• Planning and policy officers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate high-voltage transmission asset health using standard diagnostic and condition-monitoring methodologies
• Implement international asset management principles in accordance with ISO 55000 frameworks for primary grid assets
• Configure substation automation architectures compliant with the IEC 61850 communication standard
• Design migration paths for legacy remote terminal units transitioning to modern integrated SCADA architectures
• Develop structured transmission outage management plans to minimise duration and frequency of grid interruptions
• Apply dissolved gas analysis and electrical insulation testing to extend the operational life of power transformers
• Establish robust operational protocols for high-voltage network switching operations and system restoration
• Explain the main climate and environmental challenges for their sector
• Assess climate and environmental risks to services and assets
• Plan adaptation and mitigation measures

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training Methodology

The training employs a practical, utility-focused delivery model based on technical lectures, operational case examinations, and collaborative problem-solving exercises. Participants analyse genuine equipment diagnostic data, interpret laboratory oil test reports, and configure communication data points using simulated SCADA and IEC 61850 work scenarios. Peer discussions and group assignments allow transmission engineers to benchmark their operational practices against international utility standards, while practical templates ensure the direct transfer of outage planning and asset health scoring techniques to participants' domestic grid environments.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training, participants will be able to:

• Proficiency in calculating and interpreting asset health indices for critical primary substation equipment
• Technical capability to specify and evaluate IEC 61850 substation automation architectures
• Practical skill in designing communication interfaces connecting substation IEDs to national SCADA centres
• Competence in structuring compliant outage schedules that reduce unserved energy and minimise maintenance risks
• Ability to interpret dissolved gas analysis and electrical test logs to determine transformer life-extension actions
• Enhanced capacity to prepare operational and technical specifications for capital modernisation programmes
• Assess climate and environmental risks
• Plan adaptation and mitigation measures

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Climate and environmental planning
• Project design
• Access to finance
• Results measurement
• Stakeholder involvement

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk assessments
• Concept notes
• Results frameworks
• Monitoring systems
• Partnership arrangements

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply climate, environment and natural resources within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in climate, environment and natural resources increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on climate, environment and natural resources. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to climate, environment and natural resources that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Almaty, Kazakhstan brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how climate, environment and natural resources is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Kazakhstan

Programmes, Workshops, Exposures, Training Courses in Almaty, Kazakhstan by Risalat Consultants International

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Readiness Assessment
• Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty Training Manual
• Climate Risk Screening Checklist
• Options Appraisal Template
• Concept Note Template
• Results Measurement Template
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Funding Readiness Checklist
• Monitoring and Reporting Template
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Transmission Asset Health Assessment and Primary Equipment Diagnostics), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design projects that meet climate and environmental goals?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Day 2: Substation Automation and Modern SCADA System Integration), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions prepare proposals that financiers can approve?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Day 3: Outage Management, Contingency Planning, and Switching Protocols), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions measure and report results credibly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Day 4: Asset Life Extension, Capital Replacement, and Modernisation Implementation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions work with communities and partners across sectors?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Transmission Asset Health Assessment and Primary Equipment Diagnostics), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Power Transmission Asset Reliability and SCADA Modernisation in Almaty programme take place?

It runs from 8 Feb 2027 to 11 Feb 2027, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for high-voltage grid transmission engineers, substation maintenance directors and operational heads, SCADA and telecommunications system engineers, system dispatch control operators and technicians, and others who want practical skills in climate, environment and natural resources.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in climate, environment and natural resources?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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