Certificate: Smart Grid and Renewable Integration

Certificate: Smart Grid and Renewable Integration

Why Choose this Training Course:

Renewable Energy Integration focuses on incorporating renewable energy, distributed generation, energy storage, thermally activated technologies, and demand response into the electric distribution and transmission system. A systems approach is being used to conduct integration development and demonstrations to address technical, economic, regulatory, and institutional barriers for using renewable and distributed systems. In addition to fully addressing operational issues, the integration also establishes viable business models for incorporating these technologies into capacity planning, grid operations, and demand-side management.

Electric utilities are increasingly tasked with meeting Renewable Portfolio Standards, and are looking to generate power from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass sources. But integrating the power from such renewable sources into the grid can be a daunting challenge.

This training course will feature:

• Reduce carbon emissions and emissions of other air pollutants through increased use of renewable energy and other clean distributed generation
• Increase asset use through integration of distributed systems and customer loads to reduce peak load and thus lower the costs of electricity
• Support achievement of renewable portfolio standards for renewable energy and energy efficiency
• Enhance reliability, security, and resiliency from microgrid applications in critical infrastructure protection and highly constrained areas of the electric grid
• Support reductions in oil use by enabling plug-in electric vehicle (PHEV) operations with the grid
• Emphasis on wind power, solar power and energy storage systems

The Course Content

Day One: Renewable Energy Generation: The Present, The Future and The Integration Challenges

• Drivers of renewable energy development
• State of the art integrating large capacities renewable energy
• Transmission and operation technologies and practices
• Wind power generation
• Photo voltaic power generation
• Concentrated solar power generation

 Day Two: Technical Solutions for Integrating Large Capacity Renewable Energy

• Wind turbines
• Grid friendly renewable energy generation
• Improved flexibility in conventional generation
• Transmission expansion developments
• Promising large capacity electrical energy storage technologies
• Roles of electrical energy storage in renewable energy integration
• Standards for large capacity electrical energy storage renewable energy integration

Day Three: Grid Flexibility: The Key to Renewable Energy Integration

• Effects of wind and solar power on energy demand
• Power plant flexibility
• Forecasting and demand response
• Wind and solar power variabilities
• Challenges variable renewable energy poses to the grid
• Impact of fossil fueled generators

Day Four: Integrating Renewable Energy into the Transmission and Distribution Systems

• Approach to analysis of integrating renewable energy
• Integration of distributed and renewal energy generation
• Power quality impacts
• Electrical transmission and distribution systems
• Photo voltaic optimization and sensitivity analysis
• Wind optimization and sensitivity analysis

Day Five: Renewable Energy Integration in Smart Grids and Micro Grids

• Smart grid attributes
• Merits of smart grids
• Operation of micro grids
• Merits of micro grids
• Future of smart micro grids
• Wrap up session and Q&A session