1. AL-BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Training Report at
Jordan Electric Power Company
(JEPCO)
Student Name: Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Khdeir
Student Registration Number: 31015020522
Department: Electrical Power Engineering
Training Duration: February 1, 2015 to May 3, 2015

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Table of Contents:
Subject Page
Table of contents 1
Table of Figures 2
Training Summary 3
Chapter 1: Institution Profile 4
1.1 JEPCO 4
1.2 Distribution Network 5
Chapter 2: Practical Training 7
2.1 Supplies & Warehouses Department 7
2.2 Meter Checking & Maintenance Center 9
Conclusions 10
Recommendations 11

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Table of Figures:
Fig. No Title Page
1 JEPCO logo 4
2 JEPCO maintenance and services vehicles 4
3 Power Lines 5
4 JEPCO organizational structure 6
5 Pole maintenance 7
6 Measuring the straightness of the pole 8
7 Backfill the hole 8
8 Melted power meter 9

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Training Summary:
∑ I have completed 250 hours training at JEPCO.
∑ During the training period, I was submitted varied tasks.
∑ Academic material information is essential for this work more than
any else job of an engineer. He/she should remember much of what
he/she studied at university and at the same time learn more.
∑ I think that my most important outcome from training in JEPCO is
acquiring many new useful skills of various types and developing
some of my existing skills. I think these skills are very valuable since
they can signify an impact in solving problems.
∑ The main disadvantages of training at JEPCO, as I think are the lack
of a precise training plan.

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Chapter 1: Institution Profile
1.1 JEPCO Figure 1: JEPCO logo
The Jordanian Electric Power Company limited (JEPCO) was established in
Amman in the year 1938 by a group of Jordanian entrepreneurs with a
capital of 2500 pounds, for the purpose of providing streets of the capital
with lights instead of utilizing lamps lit by kerosene. The company resumed
its work despite the hard conditions of establishment and it passed its way to
success until it received the appreciation of King Abdullah the founding
father of the Kingdom (God's peace and blessing be upon him), and thereby
it received its first concession in 1947.
Care for this company was resumed by his Majesty the late King Al Hussein
Bin Talal (peace and mercy of God be upon him) during his prosperous
time, the company has been granted its second concession in 1962 for fifty
years after the Central Electric Company of Jordan merged with it where the
concession of the new company has offered it the right to generate, transmit,
transfer and distribute electric power in a region extending from Wadi Al-
Dleil in the north to Theiban in the south and from the Mowagar in the east
to the threshold of the Jordan valley (Al-Aghwar) in the west, which is the
border of the concession area of the company.
Today, JEPCO is responsible for distributing electrical energy for about
(66%) of the total consumers in the country. Forward planning and
forecasting to meet the growing demands of the consumers has
been JEPCO's well entrenched philosophy. Owing to this policy, the
company has come a long way in serving its consumers and thereby making
its own contributions to the economic growth of Jordan.
The company emphasizes the well and intention to proceed forward in
enhancing the Jordan economy and to supply electricity for this precious
homeland and all its civilized institutions so that Jordan will resume its
progress and prosperity under the reign of his Majesty King Abdullah the
Second Bin al-Hussein.
Figure 2: JEPCO
maintenance and
services vehicles

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1.2 Distribution Network
JEPCO operate a network that serves about 3 million people across 5,000
square kilometers. The network is made up of more than 5,600 main and
distribution substations bounded together by 19,000 kilometers of
underground and overhead lines.
Our electricity supply is taken from the National Electric Power Company's
network at 33,000 volts and reduced to 11,000 or 6,600 volts through a
network of main substations. Distribution substations further reduce the
electricity supply to levels that meet our customers' home or business
requirements.
Five Districts and two satellite offices operate within our concession area,
with staff whose key functions are to maintain the network, repair faults,
respond to emergencies and serve customers in relation to connection.
In addition, we have fifteen main offices that offer all services related to
meter reading and billing. These offices along with another twenty two
branches that are distributed across the whole service area offer electricity
bill collection services.
Figure 3: Power Lines

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Figure 4: JEPCO
organizational structure

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Chapter 2: Practical Training Figure 5: Pole maintenance
A first step in any training program is to become
familiar with the work environment and how it
flows. About six days at the beginning of the
training period were spent on only monitoring
how the staff around me works and what they
work on. In this stage, I could understand the
general sequence (flow) of the work.
2.1 Supplies & Warehouses Department:
One of many tasks, was to install and maintains
low voltage power lines and poles as shown on
Figure 5, power poles can be found just about
everywhere you look. They are common sites on
trips to the store, vacations and everyday outings.
These poles are used by many different
communications and utility companies to get their services to their
customers. In this case JEPCO is the company and electrical power is the
service. Even though some countries have adopted underground policies that
state that new utility installations must be placed underground, new poles are
still being placed. Installing a new pole can be a challenge, depending on the
destination of the pole. Due to the weight of the poles, this work should be
done by professionals.
Power poles installation instructions:
1. Choose a spot to place the pole. have all of your utilities located in
that area. Once the locates are done, modify the pole location to avoid
any utilities if needed.
2. Begin to drill the hole for the pole. The standard depth of a pole is one
meter. Some poles are placed deeper, depending on the soil type in
that area.

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3. Unload the pole using the pole crane. Point the bottom of the pole
toward the pole hole. The bottom of the pole should be about half
meter away from the pole. Begin raising the pole with the pole crane.
The majority of the weight of the pole should be on the pole crane.
4. Begin pushing the bottom of the pole over to the hole as the pole
begins to become vertical. Some poles will just drop into the hole and
with others, the crane will have to lower it down into the hole.
5. Use the crane to move the pole until it is straight and level. This is a
two-person job, one person to check if the pole is level and straight
and the other to control the crane as shown on Figure 6. Finally,
backfill the hole and pack it tight as shown on Figure 7.
Figure 6: Measuring the straightness Figure 7: Backfill the hole
of the pole

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2.2 Meter Checking & Maintenance Center:
This so far where it was my best experience I gained while training at
JEPCO, that s because I learned many things and faced many cases very
common on Jordan.
Melted one phase power meter:
In this case, we came across a user complain of power outages, after we
check the site, we found a melted joint in his power meter as shown on
Figure 8.
The reason was the cable is to hot what causes of melting and damaging the
power meter, the worker at JEPCO who installed this cable to the power
meter didn t tight the cable as it should be, therefore as the following law the
resistance of the cable increased because (A) the cross sectional area
decreased.
, ρ = resistivity, L = length, A = cross sectional area
Figure 8: Melted power
meter

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Conclusions:
In conclusion, I am well satisfied with my training. I have learned many new
technical subjects, acquired a number of new technical skills and improved
another group of existing skills, other than those gained at university. What I
liked most about my training is that it is very strongly related to academic
materials we studied in the university. This refutes the common saying that
very little of the materials taught in university engineering courses is used by
engineers working in the labor market. This dependency (relationship) is
clearest in electrical power engineering. However, this does not mean that I
have learned little new things in my training. I may count the technical skills
that I learned or improved at the training site, other than those gained at
university, in the following points:
1. Increasing my ability to work as a member in a team. Actually this
had been a problem of mine; I did not believe much in teamwork.
Now, after the training, I can say that my belief in the benefits of
teamwork, when the team is concerted, has increased a lot.
2. Learning how to deal with new equipment and measuring devices.
3. Expand my knowledge of how power system works in general at
Jordan.
It is very good to acquire such a large number of skills in two-month training
period. So, training at JEPCO can be said to be very valuable.

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Recommendations:
In this chapter, I give my opinion about training in JEPCO and in general, I
will focus here on the disadvantages and provide recommendations
concerning them.
Another problem was the negative effect of the large load of work on the
engineers which caused them to ignore trainees totally for many days. I think
if they involve trainees well from the beginning to carry a partial loads of the
work, this would be helpful.
However, the valuable benefits I gained from training at JEPCO lets my
overall evaluation of training there be very good. Finally, regarding the
training program at university in general, I think there should be more equity
between students. The net training periods should be equal or close. I think
that if training days are three or two a week, training will not achieve its
goals. However, a general recommendation to training institutions is to try to
get maximum benefit from trainees instead of ignoring them. Energy of the
employees should be best invested since this will achieve common interests
of the trainee (practical expertise) and the company (additional human
resources).