RelaNex Academy trains engineering teams in relay protection, substation automation and IEC 61850 — taught by the engineers who design, calculate and commission these systems every day.
Programs are written around your network, your relays and your standards. We deliver at your site, live online, or as a blended program across both.
Most protection training is written by vendors to explain their own products, or by academics who have never set a relay in an energised substation. We sit in between: practising consultants who teach.
Vendor-independent by design
We work across ABB, Siemens SIPROTEC, SEL, GE Multilin, Schneider and Alstom platforms. Your team learns the protection principle first, then how each manufacturer implements it — so the knowledge survives your next relay procurement.
Taught from live engineering
Exercises come from real coordination studies, real setting files and real event records — anonymised. Where you prefer, we build the entire course around your own single-line diagrams and protection philosophy.
Engineers who are still on the tools
Every trainer is an active project engineer, not a full-time lecturer — IEEE-published, formally certified in instructional delivery, and still designing, calculating and commissioning these systems between courses.
Delivered where your team is
On-site across Azerbaijan, Turkey, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Europe, or live online for distributed teams. Sessions can be scheduled around shift patterns and outage windows.
Training programs
Each program runs as a standalone course or combines into a longer development path. We do not publish fixed durations, because the right length depends on your assets, your relay platforms and the starting level of the group — a program is scoped after the assessment, not before it.
RP-101
Relay protection fundamentals
The grounding course for engineers moving into protection from operations, design or maintenance. Builds the reasoning behind protection decisions before any relay is touched.
Symmetrical components and fault analysis — three-phase, phase-to-phase and earth faults
CT and VT performance: ratio, polarity, accuracy class, knee-point, saturation and burden
Protection zones, overlap, and the trade-off between selectivity, sensitivity, speed and security
Overcurrent and earth fault principles (50/51, 50N/51N), inverse curves and grading
Differential and distance principles (87, 21) and where each is the right choice
ANSI and IEC device function numbers, and reading a protection single-line diagram
Foundation
RP-201
Setting calculation and coordination
Calculating and coordinating protection settings across the network, and producing a setting record that survives audit and handover.
Fault data: IEC 60909 and ANSI/IEEE C37.010, and why minimum fault level matters as much as maximum
Overcurrent and earth fault: pickup, time multiplier, curve selection and grading margins
Directional (67) and sensitive earth fault in solidly earthed, resistance-earthed and isolated networks
Differential bias characteristics for transformers, motors, generators and busbars, with inrush and CT saturation restraint
Distance zone reach and timing, and teleprotection scheme settings
Time-current coordination plots, CT saturation and burden verification, defensible setting records
Core
SA-210
IEC 61850 for substation automation
What a digital substation actually changes for a protection engineer — and, just as importantly, what it does not.
The data model: logical devices, logical nodes, data objects and attributes
GOOSE messaging, sampled values and process bus concepts
SCL engineering workflow — ICD, IID, SCD and CID files and how they fit together
Mapping hardwired signalling to GOOSE, including timing and supervision implications
Interoperability and conformance testing across multi-vendor station buses
Commissioning and fault-finding a station bus: subscription supervision and traffic analysis
Core
RP-220
Relay logic and ATS scheme design
Designing protection, control and transfer logic. Participants design and defend a complete scheme by the end of the course.
Programmable logic in numerical relays: gates, timers, latches and output contact mapping
Interlocking, permissive and blocking schemes
Breaker failure (50BF), lockout and tripping relays (86/94), and trip circuit arrangements
ATS transfer types — open, closed and fast transfer — and what each does to motor loads
Implementation routes: hardwired logic, relay-internal logic, or dedicated PLC control
IEC 61850 GOOSE-based transfer and its timing consequences
Core
RP-230
Protection philosophy and design documentation
Writing and reviewing the document that governs every protection decision on a project. Aimed at owner engineers and consultants who must approve contractor submissions.
Design basis: standards, grid code and client specification as inputs
Protection function allocation by asset class and voltage level
Zone definition and overlap, main 1 / main 2 redundancy and backup strategy
Tripping matrices, interfaces, CT and VT class requirements and station DC provision
Hardwired versus IEC 61850 architecture — making and justifying the decision
Reviewing vendor and contractor submissions, and running a comment register to close-out
Advanced
TC-240
Relay testing, commissioning and event analysis
Our deepest program and the one most often requested standalone. Takes engineers from safe isolation of a live panel through element and scheme testing to establishing what a relay actually did during a fault. Hands-on against real relays and test sets.
Safe isolation of in-service panels: CT open-circuit hazard, LOTO, FT-1 and MMLG test switches
Test equipment: OMICRON CMC-series with Test Universe (QuickCMC, Ramping, State Sequencer), Megger insulation and CT analysers
Secondary and primary injection, relay-to-test-set connection, and binary inputs for trip capture
Element testing across 50/51, 50N/51N, 67, 27/59, 81, 87T/64REF, distance zones with R-X plotting, 79, 25, 50BF and 86/94
Circuit and relay logic analysis: drawing interpretation, station DC, trip circuit supervision (74TCS), end-to-end scheme verification
Integration testing: IEC 61850 GOOSE trip verification and SCADA point-to-point and functional checks
Commissioning: FAT and SAT execution, on-load CT phasing, differential stability and metering direction
COMTRADE disturbance-record analysis, test reports to NETA and IEC practice, red-lines and punch lists
Core
PS-250
Power system studies
How each study is set up, what the results actually mean for protection, and how to challenge a study report you have been handed.
Load flow: voltage profile, equipment loading, tap settings and reactive compensation
Short circuit to IEC 60909 or ANSI/IEEE C37.010, and equipment rating verification
Arc flash to IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E: incident energy, boundaries, PPE and mitigation through settings
Motor starting: voltage dip, run-up torque and starting method selection
Stability: transient and voltage stability, critical clearing time and load shedding
Earthing to IEEE 80: soil model, grid design, step and touch voltage
Core
VP-3xx
Vendor platform workshops
Hands-on configuration on a single manufacturer's platform. Runs best after RP-201, once the protection reasoning is already in place.
SEL — acSELerator QuickSet and SELogic control equations
Siemens SIPROTEC — DIGSI configuration and CFC logic
ABB Relion — PCM600 application and signal configuration
Schneider MiCOM — Easergy Studio and MiCOM S1
GE Multilin and Alstom platforms available on request
Setting file management, version control and as-left records
Migrating a scheme from one platform to another without losing design intent
Applied
Or a program written against your own scope of work
The programs above are starting points, not a fixed catalogue. Where a client issues a scope of work — for a tender, a competency framework or a specific plant upgrade — we build the curriculum directly against it, map each requirement to the session that covers it, and add the field competencies needed to make the training produce job-ready engineers rather than certificate holders. Duration, depth, language and delivery format all follow from that scope.
How training is delivered
Most corporate clients combine formats: self-paced material to level the group before the course, intensive live sessions for the difficult parts, then follow-up clinics once the team is applying it.
On-site at your facility
We come to your office, plant or substation with test sets and relay hardware. Where site rules allow, exercises run against your own equipment and setting files.
Best for commissioning, testing and vendor platform work
Live online, instructor-led
Scheduled virtual sessions for teams spread across sites or countries, with shared relay software, live setting exercises and recorded sessions for anyone who misses a day.
Best for distributed teams and calculation-heavy courses
Self-paced modules
Recorded lessons and worked examples your engineers take at their own pace, used to bring a mixed-experience group to a common baseline before live training begins.
Best for onboarding and pre-course levelling
Blended corporate program
A structured path over several months combining all three, with skills assessment at the start, progress checkpoints, and a written competency report for your training records.
Best for long-term team capability building
Trained in the language your team works in
Courses are delivered in English, Turkish, Russian or Azerbaijani, with technical terminology handled properly in each — not translated on the fly. For mixed groups we run in English with course material and clarification available in the second language.
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How a corporate program works
From first conversation to competency report, a typical in-house program follows five stages.
1
Scoping call and skills assessment
We review your assets, relay platforms and standards, then assess the current level of the group with a short technical questionnaire. This is what stops the course being too basic for half the room and too advanced for the other half.
2
Tailored curriculum and proposal
You receive a written program: modules, learning outcomes, duration, delivery format, language and a fixed price. Exercises are drafted against your own single-line diagrams where you can share them.
3
Delivery
Training runs on the agreed schedule, on-site, online or blended. Groups are kept small enough that every participant completes the exercises rather than watching them.
4
Assessment and certificates
Participants complete a practical assessment — a setting calculation, a scheme design or an event analysis. Each receives a RelaNex Academy certificate stating the modules completed and the contact hours.
5
Follow-up clinics
For three months after delivery, your engineers can bring live questions from their own work to scheduled clinic sessions. This is where most of the lasting value appears.
Build the protection capability in your own team
Tell us your assets, your relay platforms and how many engineers you want to develop. We will come back with a scoped program and a fixed price.