• Good understanding of the performance of renewable resources
• Understanding the operational flexibility of renewables at grid level, distribution network and grid edge devices
• Knowledge of renewable energy resources, their applications and methods of analysis of renewable energy issues
• Understand and analyse the energy performance of main renewable energy systems;
• Provide insights into forecasting models for solar energy
• Predicting solar generation from weather forecasts using machine learning
• Operate a complex power system with variability on the supply side and variability on the demand side
• Understand the impact of the design of a PPA on the power system operation
• The course is aimed at helping energy professionals understand the planning and operation of power systems with an increasing share of renewable energy sources.

• Cross sectional power industry professionals
• Aggregators who want to understand the system operation of renewable resources
• Procurement companies and procurement departments from System Operators
• Power system operations engineers and managers
• Regulatory agencies aiming to derive strategies and plans based on the feedback from power system operation

• Intermediate

Your First Expert Course Instructor is a Utility Executive with extensive global experience in power system operation and planning, energy markets, enterprise risk and regulatory oversight. She consults on energy markets integrating renewable resources from planning to operation. She led complex projects in operations and conducted long term planning studies to support planning and operational reliability standards. Specializing in Smart Grids, Operational flexibilities, Renewable generation, Reliability, Financial Engineering, Energy Markets and Power System Integration, she was recently engaged by the Inter-American Development Bank/MHI in Guyana. She was the Operations Expert in the regulatory assessment in Oman. She is a registered member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada. She is also a contributing member to the IEEE Standards Association, WG Blockchain P2418.5.

With over 25 years with Ontario Power Generation (Revenue $1.2 Billion CAD, I/S 16 GW), she served as Canadian representative in CIGRE, committee member in NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), and Senior Member IEEE and Elsevier since the 90ties. Our key expert chaired international conferences, lectured on several continents, published a book on Reliability and Security of Nuclear Power Plants, contributed to IEEE and PMAPS and published in the Ontario Journal for Public Policy, Canada. She delivered seminars organized by the Power Engineering Society, IEEE plus seminars to power companies worldwide, including Oman, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, Romania, and Guyana.

Our Key expert delivered over 60 specialized seminars to executives and engineers from Canada, Europe, South and North America, Middle East, South East Asia and Japan. Few examples are:

• Modern Power System in Digital Utilities – The Energy Commission, Malaysia and utilities in the Middle East, GCCIA, June 2020
• Assessment of OETC Control Centre, Oman, December 2019
• Demand Side management, Load Forecasting in a Smart Grid, Oman, 2019
• Renewable Resources in a Smart Grid (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, GCCIA, Saudi Arabia)
• The Modern Power System: Impact of the Power Electronics on the Power System
• The Digital Utility, AI and Blockchain
• Smart Grid and Reliability of Distribution Systems, Cyme, Montreal, Canada
• Economic Dispatch in the context of an Energy Market (TNB, Sarawak Energy, Malaysia)
• Energy Markets, Risk Assessment and Financial Management, PES, IEEE: Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Portugal, South Africa, Japan. Provided training at CEO and CRO level.
• Enterprise Risk methodology, EDP, Portugal
• Energy Markets: Saudi Electricity Company, Tenaga National Berhad, Malaysia
• Reliability Centre Maintenance (South East Asia, Saudi Electricity Company, KSA)
• EUSN, ENERGY & UTILITIES SECTOR NETWORK, Government of Canada, 2016
• Connected+, IOT, Toronto, Canada September 2016 and 2015
• Smart Grid, Smart Home HomeConnect, Toronto, Canada November 2014
• Wind Power: a Cautionary Tale, Ontario Centre for Public Policy, 2010

Your Second Expert Course Instructor is the co-founder and Director of Research at Xesto Inc. Xesto is a spatial computing AI startup based in Toronto, Canada and it has been voted as Toronto’s Best Tech Startup 2019 and was named one of the top 10 “Canadian AI Startups to Watch” as well as one of 6th International finalists for the VW Siemens Startup Challenge, resulting in a partnership. His latest app Xesto-Fit demonstrates how advanced AI and machine learning is applied to the e-commerce industry, as a result of which Xesto has been recently featured in TechCrunch.

He specializes in both applied and theoretical machine learning and has extensive experience in both industrial and academic research. He is specialized in Artificial Intelligence with multiple industrial applications. At Xesto, he leads projects that focus on applying cutting edge research at the intersection of spatial analysis, differential geometry, optimization of deep neural networks, and statistics to build scalable rigorous and real time performing systems that will change the way humans interact with technology. In addition, he is a Ph.D candidate in the Mathematics department at UofT, focusing on applied mathematics. His academic research interests are in applying advanced mathematical methods to the computational and statistical sciences. He earned a Bachelor’s and MSc in Mathematics, both at the University of Toronto.

Having presented at research seminars as well as instructing engineers on various levels, he has the ability to distill advanced theoretical concept to diverse audiences on all levels. In addition to research, our key expert is also an avid traveler and plays the violin.

To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.
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