Can Wind and Solar Replace Coal in Texas?
This engineering online PDH course will present a cost effective way of replacing coal generation in Texas by using only currently planned wind and solar energy generation projects.
In this course, a method is presented for siting the projects to take advantage of the complementary timing of solar and wind in the state—in the west, sunshine peaks midday while wind peaks overnight, near the coast, wind peaks on summer evenings. Not all of the currently planned projects would even be needed; only a subset of projects sited through complementary timing would be sufficient to replace most coal generation in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas system, leaving ten percent of coal power output to be covered by natural gas and nuclear power.
This 1 PDH online course is intended for engineers interested in the design and implementation of wind and solar energy systems.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Familiarizing with modelling the output of wind and solar projects
- Understanding how to estimate the costs of wind and solar projects
- Learning how to optimize a least-cost set of projects
- Recognizing complementary timing of solar and wind phenomena in a region
- Understanding the concept of “slack” in output of coal plants
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