Launch Peru — Cosecha Pay's First 18 Months
A four-round, intermediate entrepreneurship simulation set inside Cosecha Pay S.A.C., a seed-stage Peruvian AgriTech-Fintech founded in Lima in late…
About this simulation
Maniobra en un centro de transformacion (Substation Switching). Spanish vocational training (FP), grado medio: module 0236 Instalaciones de distribucion of the Tecnico en Instalaciones Electricas y Automaticas (Real Decreto 177/2008).
The learner is Yaiza Requejo, maintenance technician of a fictional installation company, designated person in charge of the work for a planned Saturday outage of a prefabricated 20 kV transformer substation on an industrial estate: two line cells on an underground ring, a protection cell with load-break switch, fuses and earthing switch, a 630 kVA transformer and a low-voltage board feeding 240 customers, among them a cold store with a standby generator and fourteen solar self-consumption installations.
Four rounds, four phases of one outage: the preparation (a written switching programme listing every source, agreed with the distribution company's control centre; two people with checked equipment), disconnecting and locking (low voltage opened before the protection cell, the ring untouched; padlocks and signs on everything that can backfeed the transformer), verifying and earthing (a detector tested before and after on every live part; an interlock that refuses read as a warning; earths on the high- and low-voltage sides) and the return to service (reverse order on a signed end of work, every step announced).
Eight four-option decisions scored on switching safety, delay, avoidable customer-minutes off supply and coordination with the control centre; three critical errors cap the round at 40: leaving a low-voltage source able to backfeed the transformer, forcing an interlock, and re-energising without checking people and earths. Lesson: the five golden rules come every time, and in order.
Training level only: decision practice that complements supervised practical training; fictional company, places and people; no real operational figures. Spanish player-facing strings with full English parity.
What participants learn
After the session, participants will be able to:
- Design a switching programme on the single-line diagram that lists every source able to energise the substation on both the high- and low-voltage sides, agreed with the control centre
- Disconnect and lock out in order: open the low-voltage side before the protection cell, leave the ring's line cells to the distribution company, confirm positions, and lock and sign every source
- Verify the absence of voltage on every live part with a detector checked before and after, read a refusing interlock as a warning, and earth both voltage sides before the fitters start
- Return the substation to service in reverse order on a signed end of work, with nobody and no earths left inside, closing the cell before bringing the feeders back one by one
- Evaluate the outage as a whole, announcing every step to the control centre and dependent customers, and argue with figures why the fastest-looking and most cautious-looking options are rarely best
Who it is for
An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Sábado 13 de marzo, 07:30: la preparación.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.