Electricity and Electrical Energy

Electricity is the focus of The Electricity Forum, which is dedicated to the exchange of policy and technical information about Electricity and Electrical Energy Matters. We deal with issues in common to electric utilities and large industrial, commercial and institutional power consumers. We publish electrical magazines, electrical handbooks and electrial training conferences. Browse our site and learn all about electricity facts, definitions, explanations, and electrical equipment supplies and technologies that help to make modern life possible.

Our Electricity pages offer lots of education about electricity for homework projects and lessons about electric power: subjects like current, magnetism, static electricity, and electricity subjects. See our Electricity Pages.

CSA Z462 sets a new standard for Electrical Safety Training in Canada. Our course provides front-line Electricity workers with the information they need to make safe decisions involving their work practices. From our course, they will receive the proper awareness and training needed in order to develop a personal arc flash safety strategy in the workplace.

Our Two-Day Electrical Safety Forum course goes in much greater detail than our basic one-day CSA Z462 awareness course. Our two-day program teaches students about how arc flash is related to other electrical issues and the many mitigation techniques now available to help companies avoid arc flash accidents, personal injury and also equipment failure. Our in-depth two-day course on electrical safety will go one step beyond explaining the basics of Canada's new Arc Flash/Electrical Safety standard, it will show Electricity safety professionals how to implement the standard into their electrical safety programs. This information will impact on Labelling, Arc Flash Studies, PPE Program Development, and contain a special section on how CSA Z462 impacts on Provincial electrical safety regulations.

Designing, Constructing and Maintaining Lightning, Electrostatic Discharge & Transient Overvoltage Protection Systems - Our Lightning Protection Systems Course will review the important characteristics of natural lightning including its formation, electrical and physical characteristics, and the ways in which it interacts with not only physical structures but also sensitive, critical, and expensive electrical and electronic systems.

This course is an in depth interactive training course on fire alarm protection systems that discusses the purpose and specific application of the different codes and standards that regulate the industry. Avoid installation errors, failed inspections and false alarms!

There are two things you should remember when it comes to cable splicing and terminating: 1. Proper splices and terminations are an integral part of any cable system, and 2. Cable splices and terminations become more susceptible to failure at higher voltages.

Therefore, whether splicing or terminating is accomplished by the use of hand-applied tapes, a filled or molded device, heat-shrinkable tubing, or a prefabricated device, care should be exercised during the application. Poor workmanship or improper choice of materials could jeopardize the reliability of the entire system.