Apprentice substation electrician training begins with the C series. It is intended for workers who have little or no field experience.

C Series - Three levels

Introductory training(two-day session)

• Participate in job briefing
• Safety manual review
• Station entry training
• Care and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Hazardous energy – lockout/tagout
• Conduct pre/post vehicle inspection
• Introduction to fall protection
• Six basic knots
• Use of handlines
• Stretching and flexibility
• Setup of ladders
• Station structure climbing and rescue
• Aerial device (bucket) operation and rescue
• Ground and barricade aerial device

C100 (five-day session)

• Pulling and terminating control cable
• Maintaining station live line tools
• Personal insulated protective equipment
• Storage batteries and components
• Maintaining hand tools
• Constructing temporary grounds
• Inspecting/maintaining temporary grounds
• Installing/removing temporary grounds
• Electrical safety – series and parallel circuits
• Insulating gases and materials
• Basic electricity
• Voltage detector
• Electrical test meters
• Introduction to elementary symbols and drawings
• Station one-line symbols
• Electric drills, bits, augers
• Portable pumps
• Station vehicle safety
• Stretching and flexibility

C200 (five-day session)

• Installing ground grids
• Installing station fencing
• Station inspections
• Identifying circuit breaker mechanism components
• Identifying circuit breaker internal components
• Conducting low-voltage electrical tests
• Completing oil di-electric sampling and testing
• Performing internal maintenance on low-voltage circuit breakers
• Slings and lifting hardware
• Loading securing and tie down guidelines
• Switching procedures
• Transformers
• Stretching and flexibility

B Series - Four levels:

B100 - Week #1 (five-day session)

• Operating transit and survey levels
• Installing wood foundations
• Installing preform foundations
• Installing precast cable trenches
• Erecting and assembling minor steel structures
• Installing station buses and associated equipment
• Pulling/terminating control cables
• Elementary symbols and drawings
• Washing insulators
• Installing concrete foundations
• Placing concrete for foundations
• Completing final grades
• Stretching and flexibility

B100 - Week #2 (five-day session)

• Removing transformer insulating material
• Inspecting/repairing auxiliary transformer equipment
• Complete transformer combustible gas test
• Maintaining surge arrestors
• Maintaining current and potential transformers
• Removing power and alarms
• Removing insulating mediums
• Processing insulating mediums
• Performing internal maintenance on low-voltage oil circuit breaker
• Performing internal maintenance on low-voltage sulfur hexafluoride circuit breakers
• Stretching and flexibility

B200 - Week #1 (five-day session)

• Obtaining switching assignments
• Preparing for switching
• Executing switching orders
• Obtaining clearance
• Relay functions and control switches
• Station switching equipment and current ratings
• Installing control building equipment
• Pulling/terminating power cables
• Erecting and assembling major steel structures
• Troubleshooting equipment
• Maintaining switches/operating mechanisms
• Stretching and flexibility

B200 - Week #2 (five-day session)

• Calibrating gauges and switches
• Servicing spring mechanisms
• Servicing solenoid mechanisms
• Preparing circuit breakers for service
• Restoring electrical and mechanical energy
• Releasing stored operating energy
• Maintaining bushing current transformers
• Checking sulfur hexafluoride gas quality
• Maintain voltage regulator
• Isolating transformers from service
• Preparing transformers for service
• Stretching and flexibility