Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast
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Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast at Coursera Overview
Duration | 15 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
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Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast at Coursera Course details
- This course provides the basis for estimating the resource of these different modes of production and understanding the physical causes of intermittency and seasonal variability
- The different modes of electricity production are detailed as well as the sensitivity induced by meteorological variations
Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast at Coursera Curriculum
Basics on climate, energy and meteorology
Climate change and climate mitigation
Relating emissions to population, economy and technology
Climate mitigation and renewable energies
Various units
Primary and Final Energy
Capacity factors of various units
General atmospheric circulation
Atmospheric variability at mid-latitudes
Atmospheric variability in the tropics
Clouds and precipitations
Preamble
How many wind turbines to replace one coal-fired power plant ?
Atmospheric circulation
Regional and small-scale atmospheric variability
Test Energy and Meteorology
Hydro and fluvial power
History and hydro turbines
Water Cycle
Hydro resources
Hydro variabilities
Conventional hydro power
Dissipation in penstocks
Pumped Hydro Storage
Fluvial power
Run of river power plants
Load Factors Hydro
Hydro electric resources
Pumped Hydro Storage
Quiz fluvial power
Test on Hydro Electricity
Wind power
In-situ wind measurements
Remote sensing wind measurements
Windcube a compact wind lidar
Probability distribution function
Weibull law
Betz law
Power Curve
Wind production
Quiz wind measurements
Wind turbines
Test Wind Power
Solar Power
Components of solar radiation on a plane
Factors affecting solar radiation reaching the ground
Temporal and spatial scales of solar resource variability
Solar resource estimation techniques: ground-based measurements
Solar resource estimation techniques: satellite-based estimations
Photovoltaic module characteristics
Methods to estimate and evaluate photovoltaic production
Worked problem: PV potential calculation
Solar resource caracterisation and variability
Solar resource estimation techniques
Solar Resource
Solar photovoltaic generation
Renewable energy integration and forecasting
Integration of renewables in the energy system
Challenges and forecasting needs for the energy sector
Energy forecasting tools
Determinism, chaos and predictability
Making forecasts and quantifying uncertainty
Renewables integration and forecasting challenges
Forecasting and uncertainty
Test Renewable Energy Integration and Forecasting
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