The Smart Grids Course: The Key to the Energy Transition offers you the opportunity to enter a booming sector with high demand for skilled workers. In a world where sustainability and energy efficiency are crucial, smart grids are emerging as the solution for optimising electricity distribution and actively managing distributed energy resources. You will learn to tackle the issues and challenges facing the current electricity system, whilst gaining an understanding of the economic factors and regulations driving this change. This course will equip you with skills to understand how the distribution system works and the crucial role of smart grids in the energy transition. Taking this course means investing in a promising professional future, in which you will actively contribute to a necessary and urgent energy transition.
Smart Grids: The key to the energy transition
Energy
40 hours
Introduction
Objectives
- To understand the issues and challenges facing the current electricity system.
- Identify the key components of smart grids.
- To analyse active management in distribution systems.
- To assess the impact of distributed energy resources.
- To understand the operation of networks utilising energy resources.
- To explore the economics and regulation of smart grids.
- To propose strategies to drive forward the energy transition.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. THE CURRENT ELECTRICITY SYSTEM AND THE CURRENT STATE OF DISTRIBUTION: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Introduction
The value chain of the electricity sector
The electricity cycle
The reasons for the change
Conclusions
TEACHING UNIT 2. SMART GRIDS AND ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Introduction
The concept of passive and active networks
Distributed energy resources
The new role of the DSO and active network management
New services managed by the DSO
Technology and regulation as key enablers
Conclusions
TEACHING UNIT 3. THE ROLE OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SMART GRIDS
Introduction
Distributed generation
The active involvement of the demand side
Energy storage
Electric vehicle
Conclusions
TEACHING UNIT 4. THE OPERATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES
Introduction
Components of the distribution system
Observable network and information exchange
Planning, access and grid connection
Operation
New tools for controlling and monitoring the distribution system
Quality of service
GSD and smart grids
Conclusions
TEACHING UNIT 5. ECONOMICS AND REGULATION OF SMART GRIDS
Introduction
Analysis of the integration of distributed generation
Integration of intermittent generation and regulation by the transmission system operator
The active involvement of the demand side
Electric vehicle
Automation of the distribution network
Conclusions
TEACHING UNIT 6. THE ENERGY TRANSITION. HOW CAN WE DRIVE FORWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART GRIDS?
Introduction
The energy transition
Methodologies for analysing the pilot schemes
Smart Grid Roadmap
Conclusions
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