Conceptual Microgrids Designs for Energy Resilience
This online engineering PDH course offers a comprehensive introduction to microgrid energy resilience, focusing on conceptual design to improve reliability and minimize vulnerabilities during grid outages.
This course highlights the role of microgrids in enhancing energy resilience by integrating distributed energy resources and enabling grid-connected and island modes. It explores conceptual microgrid design, including scoping, data collection, and site evaluation. This course covers different topics such as defining boundaries, identifying critical loads, and assessing generation options like renewable and dispatchable energy.
The course includes tools like supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA systems and communication networks for efficient operations and draws on real-world examples, such as the Miramar Microgrid, to address risks, prioritize critical loads, and design flexible systems. It emphasizes economic and technical analyses, such as lifecycle cost assessments and resilience valuation, while focusing on policy, cybersecurity, and sustainable integration of renewable energy and storage.
This 6 PDH online course is applicable to engineers and energy managers, as well as other professionals who are interested in learning more about the conceptual design and implementation of microgrids.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the fundamentals of microgrid energy resilience, focusing on reliability and maintaining critical operations during outages
- Learning the key aspects of conceptual microgrid design, including boundaries, critical loads, and generation options (dispatchable and renewable)
- Analyzing microgrid strategies for power generation, load prioritization, and integrating energy storage to improve efficiency and reliability
- Exploring emerging technologies like SCADA systems, energy storage, and renewable energy for flexible, efficient systems
- Understanding policy, economics, and funding mechanisms, including resilience valuation and lifecycle cost assessments
- Addressing challenges like cybersecurity, flexibility, and aligning designs with resilience and sustainability objectives
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