Specialized Courses
Are traditional solutions failing to meet your needs?
Our tailored training programs are individually designed to help you identify the best solutions to the pressing issues you face today. By working with you to design the program, we can deliver the most relevant curriculum, expand upon your organization's existing competencies, and develop tailored strategies using the right tools for the job.
PURC training and development programs are designed to improve participant skills in five areas: conceptual frameworks, critical thinking, creativity, communication, and commitment.
Our programs teach the principles and practices that support effective utility policy and regulation. Instructional approaches include case studies, lectures, client problem-solving, simulations, video, e-learning, and site visits. Training is rigorous, but practical.
Recent Courses
PURC Advanced International Practices Program
July 31-August 10, 2011
PURC has developed the PURC Advanced International Practices Program in consultation with faculty and alumni of the PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy. This new program, and its first three courses, will provide experienced utility professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the technical matters of infrastructure policy.
Program participants will develop the skills they need to address today's complex infrastructure issues. Using case studies and presentations by PURC faculty and infrastructure experts, the courses in this program will emphasize practical lessons and new techniques for addressing the most pressing pricing, market, and process issues.
More detailsEnergy Training for the Bermuda Department of Energy
November 9-10, 2010
Establishing the regulatory process is a complicated matter of assessing both where you stand and where you want to be, as well as understanding how these may change over time. PURC Director of Energy Studies Ted Kury and PURC Senior Fellow Raj Barua worked with commissioners and staff of the Bermuda Department of Energy in Hamilton, to assess the state of current electric regulatory authority in and planning the future goals for that authority.
More detailsSeminar on Competition Monitoring in the Telecommunications Market
September 9, 2010
Bangkok, ThailandHow can telecommunications regulators assess the potential competitiveness of emerging markets? That was the subject of a competition seminar delivered by PURC Director Dr. Mark A. Jamison for the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of Thailand, in cooperation with Thammasat University.
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