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Fundamentals of Renewables Grid Integration
A one-day overview exploring the integration of high penetration renewables onto electric grids
This one-day seminar presents details on the obstacles faced when integrating high penetration renewables onto the electric grid as well as the tools used by system operators to allow integration while maintaining reliability. You will learn the characteristics of renewable generation that impact grid integration, how these characteristics impact system operations, the key operational issues given these impacts, tools for reliably overcoming impacts, costs for implementing these tools, and the role for new flexible resources in support of renewables integration.
This course was designed with your participation in mind! Questions and discussion among attendees are highly encouraged. And you will participate in a number of group exercises that will give you a real-world perspective of how renewables integration actually works. You will leave this information-packed seminar with relevant and current information that can be applied immediately to your work!
Prerequisites: Renewable Energy Overview, or a basic understanding of the electric grid and renewable technologies
Contact us at 866-765-5432 or 'info' for more information.
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Is Fundamentals of Renewables Grid Integration the right seminar for me?
If you need a detailed look at issues and tools for integrating renewables onto electric grids, but can’t spend more than a day away from the job, this seminar is for you! Whether you are active in the renewables industry or work for an electric company experiencing increasing renewables penetration, you will benefit from the insights this class will offer. While anyone with a connection to renewable electricity should consider this seminar, here are the types of employees who have found this class especially helpful to their continued success in the industry:
- Professionals in the renewables industry
- System operations, engineering, business and planning employees in an energy company experiencing or anticipating increased renewables penetration
- Regulatory employees requiring an understanding of issues associated with integrating renewables
- Professionals such as attorneys, accountants, finance, PR, etc, who are becoming active in the renewables industry
How will Fundamentals of Renewables Grid Integration help me?
If you work in the renewables industry, a key factor in the growth of your business will be the ability of grid operators to integrate your technologies with the grid. Interconnection rules, operating rules, and system charges will potentially make or break the success of your business. By attending this seminar you will learn the issues associated with integrating your technologies and be prepared to address them as you work with utilities and system operators to further the growth of your business.
If you work for an electric utility or system operator, your organization must prepare for an increasing penetration of renewables in your resource mix. This seminar will provide you the basic knowledge necessary to work with your company experts as well as outside stakeholders to effectively integrate renewables at the lowest cost possible without harming reliability.
If you work for or with a regulatory agency you will be tasked with evaluating competing claims as to what can and cannot be done with renewable power. By attending this seminar, you will understand the technical integration issues, how they can reasonably be dealt with, and the costs associated with choosing to do so.
In one information-packed day, this dynamic course will provide you with a solid understanding of:
- The characteristics of renewable generation that impact grid integration
- Detailed information on dispatchability, variability, predictability, ramp rates, and interconnection issues for key technologies
- How renewables impact system operations in various key time frames
- The key operational issues with high penetrations of renewables
- Tools available for maintaining reliability with high penetrations of renewables
- Estimated costs of integrating renewables
- The role for new flexible resources such as demand response, storage and the Smart Grid
- Basic Concepts for Integrating Renewables
- Welcome and agenda
- Key characteristics of renewables that impact integration
- Dispatchability
- Variability
- Predictability
- Ramp rates
- Interconnection issues (voltage support, low voltage ride through, etc.)
- Overview of renewables and their characteristics
- Wind
- Solar
- Biomass
- Geothermal
- Small hydro
- Projections for future resource mixes with high renewables penetration
- Details on integration issues for wind, solar PV, and solar CSP
- Technology
- Typical project
- Dispatchability
- Variability of resource across year, month and day
- Variability during extreme weather (storms, wind bursts, etc.)
- Impact of resource variability on unit output
- Predictability (day-ahead and hour-ahead)
- Ramp rates (key issue of morning and afternoon ramps)
- Integration issues
- Issues for System Operations and Renewables
- Concept of net energy to be served by traditional generation (Load minus variable renewables)
- Time-frames for system operations
- Long-term (resource adequacy)
- Seasonal (NERC seasonal reliability planning)
- Day-ahead
- Hour-ahead
- Intra-hour
- Capacity planning and renewables
- Seasonal planning and renewables
- Day-ahead
- Forecasting (key variables, accuracy)
- Scheduling
- Hour-ahead
- Forecasting
- Scheduling
- Intra-hour
- Performance relative to forecast
- Variability during hour
- Abnormal spikes and dips during hour
- Issues for operating system with high penetration of renewables
- Regulation
- 5-min real-time dispatch (load following)
- System over-generation
- Localized system issues where congestion exists
- Interchange with other control areas
- Voltage support
- Low voltage ride-through
- Unique issues with distributed renewables
- Impacts on system requirements
- Ancillary services (reserves and regulation)
- Real-time balancing resources
- Cost of additional resource requirements
- Tools for Maintaining System Reliability with Renewables
- Key strategies for integrating renewables
- Geographical diversity
- Additional use of CTs, hydro for regulation/load following
- Improved forecasting
- Day-ahead
- Hour-ahead
- Intra-hour
- Communication with and visibility of renewables
- Enhance flexibility of renewables (dispatchability)
- Spin down
- Spin up
- Transmission construction and upgrades
- Distribution system upgrades for distributed renewables
- Changes in market rules
- Pay CTs for additional services
- Pay renewables for dispatchability and/or ramp rate management
- New flexible resources for grid
- Demand response
- Electric vehicles
- Electric storage
- How resources fit in different system ops time frames
- The role of the Smart Grid
Group discount
Attend this seminar with your workgroup and you can save up to 25%. For every three people from the same company who attend this course, the fourth is free!
Course length
One day
Prerequisites
Renewable Energy Overview, or a basic understanding of the electric grid and renewable technologies
Seminar times
This seminar begins at 8:30and ends at 5:00. But feel free to come early to enjoy complimentary breakfast, ask questions of your instructor and network with other class participants.
Registration fee
$795 (save $100 - only $695 if paid three weeks prior to seminar). This fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and morning and afternoon breaks. The fee also includes course materials.
Cancellation policy
All class sizes are limited and your place in class is held exclusively for you. Registrations cancelled two weeks or more prior to the seminar date will receive a full refund minus a 10% administrative fee or a credit for 100% of the registration fee good towards any other Enerdynamics product. Registrations cancelled with less than two weeks notice but more than two days notice will receive a credit for 100% of the registration fee good towards any other Enerdynamics product. Registrations cancelled with less than two days notice are not eligible for refund or credit. Substitutions may be made at any time and without additional cost.
Contact us at 866-765-5432 or 'info' for more information.
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