Join us at the 5th annual Trainers Conference and Tradeshow, back on the beautiful Riverwalk in San Antonio! Our theme this year is "Update Your Training Toolbox." February 17-20, 2025, equip yourself with the latest strategies, tools, and techniques to enhance your training effectiveness.

We have exciting new sessions this year, including:
• Leading the Charge
• Your Electric Reality
• From Safety to Strategy
• Print Reading & Troubleshooting
• From Transition to Transformation
• The 10 Deadly Myths of Protective Grounding
• Sustainable Training through Employee Engagement
and much more!

As always, we have lined up exhibitors to showcase the industry’s best products and technologies.

REGISTER EARLY to secure your spot! This will be a sold out conference!

Our team at T&D PowerSkills, along with the Institute for Safety in Powerline Construction, are braving the August heat this week at CenterPoint Energy, filming a transmission crew for refresher training! We wear a lot of hats around here, but we wouldn’t have it any other way!

It’s the busiest time of the year in production! Workbook orders from our two largest colleges come in around the same time each summer, and Alecia is always ready! Thanks to Pratt Community College and Dakota County Technical College for training the next generation of lineworkers!

We are looking for speakers for the 2025 Trainers Conference in San Antonio (February 17-21). If you are a leader in the electric utility industry, submit your idea by August 1st using this form. The theme for 2025 is "Update Your Training Toolbox." We are proud to continue expanding our session offerings, and hope to include as many expert voices as we can! We can’t wait to hear your ideas!

We are thrilled to announce that the training units listed below now feature Spanish subtitles in our LMS!

T&D PowerSkills is committed to making our content accessible and inclusive for our diverse workforce. This initiative is the first step toward ensuring that our Spanish-speaking community can fully engage with our training materials.

We believe that language should never be a barrier to knowledge and growth. Thank you for your continued support, and stay tuned as we work towards adding subtitles to the rest of our program.

• Advanced Rigging

• Alternating Current Fundamentals

• Basic Electricity Review

• Bucket Truck Rescue

• Bucket Trucks

• Cable Splicing 1

• Cable Splicing 2

• Cable Terminations

• Capacitors and Reactors

• Care and Testing of Tools and Equipment

• Circuit Breakers 1

• Circuit Breakers 2

• Climbing Steel Poles and Towers

• Climbing Wooden Poles

• Control Equipment

• Distribution Line Installation and Removal

• Distribution Line Safety

• Distribution

• Electrical Safety

• High Voltage Terminations

• Hydraulic Derricks

• Introduction to Metering

• Introduction to Transmission and Distribution Systems

• Locating Primary Faults

• Locating Secondary Faults

• Material Handling Bucket Trucks

• Multimeter Operation

• Overhead Distribution Systems

• Pad-Mounted Transformers and Switchgear

• Pole Framing and Guying

• Power Transformers 1

• Power Transformers 2

• Relays 1

• Relays 2

• Rigging 1

• Rigging 2

• Rigging for High Voltage Work

• Safe Bucket Truck Operation

• Safety in Overhead Line Maintenance

• Safety in Substations and Switchyards

• Safety in Transmission and Distribution Maintenance

• Safety in Underground Line Maintenance

• Substations and Switchyards

• System Protection and Monitoring

• Transmission Line Installation

• Transmission Line Repair - Bare Hand Method

• Transmission Line Repair - Hot Sticks

• Transmission Line Safety

• Transmission Structures

• Transmission

• Underground Cable Installation

• Using Line Test Equipment

• Using Tools

• Voltage Regulators 1

• Voltage Regulators 2

• Working on Deenergized Transmission Lines

• Working on Distribution Poles

This year's Trainers Conference and Tradeshow in San Antonio was the best one yet! We are proud to keep improving each year, and are already looking forward to our fifth event next year! We are so grateful to our engaging speakers, over 30 exhibitors, our generous sponsors, and the industry’s best attendees! Thank you to everyone involved, and we'll see you again next year!

After three years in New Orleans, we thought a change of scenery might be nice. We’ve moved the 2024 Trainers Conference and Tradeshow to San Antonio, and we’re ready to discuss safety and training in a Texas-sized way!  

Competency is critical in our industry. Advancements in technology and changes in learning styles have created industry-specific challenges, that we as leaders must address. It has never been more important to train with these challenges in mind. Our brand new speaker lineup will tackle these issues and prepare us to meet the demands of tomorrow.

Attendees and exhibitors can register here. Come see us in San Antonio and meet us on the Riverwalk!

We are so excited to welcome The Desoto Group as the newest company to use our LMS to train the next generation of lineworkers! Thanks so much to Curtis Bradley for believing in our product and helping further our mission. We enjoyed your visit to our home office and look forward to working with you for years to come!

This summer, as always, we are so grateful to Alecia, our production admin, and to all the schools making their workbook orders for the upcoming fall semester! Shown here are the summer workbook orders for Dakota County Technical College and Pratt Community College.

We are filled with gratitude for the selfless service of lineworkers and all involved with the recovery after Hurricane Ian's destruction. THANK YOU ALL! Stay safe, and know you're more appreciated than you'll ever know.