The equipment we use in our everyday life, the industrial process in the nearby factories, natural phenomenon, cell phones, computers, Aurora Borealis, etc. Both these rare and ever-increasing situations cumulatively degrade the power quality. Suddenly, there's a problem and the deeper you look, the worse the problem appears and the tougher it is to solve. Many of the problems people encounter are not considered to be power quality problems, and tremendous amounts of time and money are spent chasing them down. It's easy to assume that a recurring computer malfunction is the fault of Windows '95, but that may not always be the case.
Power quality is an area of rapidly growing concern.
This course being offered is an attempt to provide the new or existing power engineer with an understanding of power quality problems and, at the very least, the insight to consider power quality as the source of some other symptomatic problem. Hopefully you will finish with a solid understanding of the causes of and solutions to most types of power quality problems. I hope that you will find this course challenging, informative and fun. The lectures will attempt to keep us all together in terms of categorizing power quality issues. It will also serve as a discussion forum for power quality problems.