Control for Renewable Energy and Smart Grids

Course Summary

This course will concentrate on two forms of renewable energy-wind and solar-and on the role of smart grids in addressing the problems associated with the efficient and reliable delivery and use of electricity and with the integration of renewable sources.

Learning Objectives

Objective of most national energy policies worldwide aim at clean energy which is a global and urgent imperative. Renewable generation, especially from wind and solar, and smart grid concepts are critical technologies needed to address global warming and related issues. The key challenge is to reduce the cost of renewable energies to affordable levels. Control and related technologies will be essential for solving these complex problems. This course goes over all the difficulties and technologies needed to make the renewable energy more available.

Course Author

Eduardo F. Camacho, Tariq Samad, Mario Garcia-Sanz, and Ian Hiskens

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Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

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This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering