Outsmarting intermittency
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Outsmarting intermittency at Coursera Overview
Duration | 2 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Outsmarting intermittency at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 2 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Outsmarting intermittency at Coursera Course details
- Solar and wind offer clean and renewable ways to produce large amounts of electricity. They have boomed over the last few years, evolving from an eco-daydream to a major market and showing unprecedented growth rates. Yet, installing solar panels and wind turbines is by no means the end of the story. The electrical grid, which connects production means to the end-users? sockets, is not a simple electron pipe. It is the beating heart of our electricity system and ensures its stability. Solar and wind raise specific challenges for the grid, and these challenges will have to be tackled if we want to deploy larger amounts of renewable sources.
- The aim of this lecture is to introduce these challenges and some approaches considered to overcome them. We are convinced that everyone involved in this journey, from investors, to entrepreneur, policy makers or simple customer should be aware of these issues if we want to make sure they don?t become a bottleneck limiting further development of renewable sources.
Outsmarting intermittency at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction
0 ? Grid integration what, why, how
The electrical grid today
1-1 Physical infrastructure
1.2 Who's who
1-3 Bonus electricity 101
2-1 The time scales of power balance
2-2 Why is grid stability critical - when things go wrong
Test your knowledge on the main actors of the grid.
Test your knowledge on grid stability
Getting solar and wind onto the grid
3-1 Challenges - Introduction and Dispatchability
3-2 Challenges - Intermittency, variations and prediction
3-3 Challenges - Grid architecture
4-0 Bonus - Assessing solutions - Energy trilemma
4-1 Solution - Power electronics
4-2 Solution - Storage
4-3 Solution - Aggregation
4-4 Solution - Forecasting
4-5 Solution - Smart grid - dispatching demand
Test your knowledge on solutions for grid integration
Conclusions
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