About this training course
The energy sector is undergoing a profound paradigm shift, characterized by the convergence of cutting-edge technologies, regulatory dynamism, and the escalating integration of renewable energy resources. This course delves into the technical intricacies of advanced methodologies for energy management. The course scrutinizes demand response and energy conservation programs, highlighting their implications on energy efficiency, grid stability, and sustainable energy practices. The course tackles the state-of-the-art technologies integrated in the Smart Grid.
Integration of Power Electronics and New Technologies. Power electronics facilitate enhanced energy conversion, grid integration of renewables, and dynamic load management. The technical depth of this discussion includes power electronics' role in grid inverters for solar and wind energy systems, battery energy storage, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Regulatory Frameworks and Zero Net Energy Building Codes. The course dissects the technical nuances of regulatory frameworks and their impact on energy conservation strategies. Special emphasis is placed on zero net energy building codes.
Demand Response for Grid Economics and System Security - Demand Response to Price. This is dissected technically, with a focus on its economic and security dimensions. This involves sophisticated load profiling, demand forecasting algorithms, and real-time pricing mechanisms. The course presents how Demand Response supports the Grid reliability through the fine-grained control of loads, mitigating peak demand and alleviating transmission congestion.
Advanced Load Forecasting using Artificial Intelligence. Load forecasting AI refers to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to predict and forecast electrical load or energy consumption. This is a critical task in the energy and utility sector because accurate load forecasting helps grid operators, power companies, and energy providers to optimize energy production and distribution, plan for capacity expansion, and enhance overall energy efficiency. The course tackles the key points about load forecasting AI.
Conservation Programs: Technical Attributes and Metrics. The technical success criteria encompass energy audits, advanced metering infrastructure, and continuous commissioning.
Integration of Renewable Resources: Technical Challenges and Solutions. As renewable energy penetration intensifies, the course underscores the importance of demand side operational flexibility for a reliable grid integration. Demand response is a technical strategy to tackle intermittency and ensure grid stability.
Enhancing Market Competition and Liquidity. The course presents advanced market mechanisms, such as locational marginal pricing (LMP) and demand bidding strategies, with example from Australian and North American market design. explored. Technical aspects include demand elasticity modeling, market-clearing algorithms, and congestion pricing.
Consumer-Centric and System-Level Perspectives. The course provides a technical breakdown of the dual perspectives – consumer-centric and system-level. It elucidates advanced technologies like home energy management systems (HEMS), distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS), and grid optimization algorithms. These enable real-time energy decision-making and grid-balancing at both individual and system-wide scales.
Interoperability and Transactive Energy. Interoperability are presented with communication protocols, data modeling, and relevant industry standards. Transactive energy is explored in detail, focusing on microgrid interoperability, and grid-edge IoT devices.\
Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Peer-to-Peer Transactions. The technical dimension of blockchain's role in energy cybersecurity is elucidated. This includes blockchain consensus mechanisms, cryptographic hashing, and secure energy data exchange protocols. The practical implementation of blockchain in peer-to-peer energy transactions and Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) trading is explored.
This course offers an in-depth technical exploration of the multifaceted aspects of modern energy management. It underscores the technical prowess of power electronics, regulatory intricacies, and the sophisticated engineering required for demand response, conservation, and renewable energy integration. As the energy landscape evolves, these technical insights serve as a compass, guiding the industry towards a sustainable and resilient energy future and most importantly, meeting decarbonization targets.