The study programme “Smart Power Systems” has been designed as a united and optimised professional master programme that is open both to graduates of the professional bachelor programme and graduates of the second-level higher professional study programme. The master programme is aimed at meeting the requirements of electric power systems and networks as well as the power utilities sector of the labour market in the Republic of Latvia and abroad with the necessary specialists.

The graduate of the programme will be able to identify the needs of the power sector and to apply smart technologies for economical and efficient use of electric power, integrating the knowledge gained in the study process within the field of modern-day electric power systems.

To prepare a new generation of graduates in the field of electric power networks and systems, the record-keeping and monitoring for their modes as well as in the field of stability and reliability, actively introducing smart technologies, that is to say:

• optimal control technologies applicable to the energy market as well as to energy production, transmission, distribution, consumption and energy saving;
• expertise in energy demand and saving, effective energy use methods in construction, industry, the primary sector and the transport sector;
• development and integration of various control systems and energy efficiency models.