ABOUT THIS VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR LED TRAINING (VILT)
This 5 half-day Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) course will assist energy
professionals in the planning and operation of a power system from renewable
energy sources. The VILT course will discuss key operating requirements for an
integrated, reliable and stable power system.
The unique characteristics of renewable energy are discussed from a local,
consumer centric and system perspective, bringing to life the ever-changing
paradigm in delivering energy to customers. The course will explore the
technical challenges associated with interconnecting and integrating hundreds of
gigawatts of solar power onto the electricity grid in a safe and reliable way.
With references to international case studies, the VILT course will also
demonstrate the state of the art methodologies used in forecasting solar power.
The flexibility of the invertor-based resources will facilitate higher
penetrations of photovoltaic, battery electricity storage systems and demand
response while co-optimizing customer resources. The contribution of
inverter-based generators that provides voltage support, frequency response and
regulation (droop response), reactive power and power quality with a high level
of accuracy and fast response will be addressed.
Furthermore, this VILT course will also describe how microgrids' controllers can
allow for a fully automated energy management. Distributed energy resources are
analyzed in detail from a technical and financial aspect and will address the
best known cost based methodologies such as project financing and cost recovery.
Training Objectives
Upon completion of this VILT course, participants will be able to:
* Learn about renewable energy resources, their applications and methods of
analysis of renewable energy issues.
* Review the operational flexibility of renewable energy at grid level,
distribution network and grid edge devices.
* Understand and analyze energy performance from main renewable energy systems.
* Get equipped on the insights into forecasting models for solar energy.
* Predict solar generation from weather forecasts using machine learning.
* Explore operational aspects of a complex power system with variability from
both the supply & demand sides.
* Manage the impact of the design of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) on the
power system operation.
Target Audience
Engineers, planners and operations professionals from the following
organizations:
* Energy aggregators who would like to understand the system operations of
renewable energy power plants
* Renewable energy power system operator
* Energy regulatory agencies who aim to derive strategies and plans based on
the feedback obtained from the power system operations
Course Level
* Basic or Foundation
Training Methods
The VILT course will be delivered online in 5 half-day sessions comprising 4
hours per day, including time for lectures, discussion, quizzes and short
classroom exercises.
Course Duration: 5 half-day sessions, 4 hours per session (20 hours in total).
Trainer
Your first expert course leader 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.
Your second expert course leader 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.
POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL)
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.
Request for further information about post training coaching support and fees
applicable for this.
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