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Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast 

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15 hours

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Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast
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  • This course provides the basis for estimating the resource of these different modes of production and understanding the physical causes of intermittency and seasonal variability
  • The different modes of electricity production are detailed as well as the sensitivity induced by meteorological variations

Hydro, Wind & Solar power: Resources, Variability & Forecast
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Curriculum

Basics on climate, energy and meteorology

Climate change and climate mitigation

Relating emissions to population, economy and technology

Climate mitigation and renewable energies

Various units

Primary and Final Energy

Capacity factors of various units

General atmospheric circulation

Atmospheric variability at mid-latitudes

Atmospheric variability in the tropics

Clouds and precipitations

Preamble

How many wind turbines to replace one coal-fired power plant ?

Atmospheric circulation

Regional and small-scale atmospheric variability

Test Energy and Meteorology

Hydro and fluvial power

History and hydro turbines

Water Cycle

Hydro resources

Hydro variabilities

Conventional hydro power

Dissipation in penstocks

Pumped Hydro Storage

Fluvial power

Run of river power plants

Load Factors Hydro

Hydro electric resources

Pumped Hydro Storage

Quiz fluvial power

Test on Hydro Electricity

Wind power

In-situ wind measurements

Remote sensing wind measurements

Windcube a compact wind lidar

Probability distribution function

Weibull law

Betz law

Power Curve

Wind production

Quiz wind measurements

Wind turbines

Test Wind Power

Solar Power

Components of solar radiation on a plane

Factors affecting solar radiation reaching the ground

Temporal and spatial scales of solar resource variability

Solar resource estimation techniques: ground-based measurements

Solar resource estimation techniques: satellite-based estimations

Photovoltaic module characteristics

Methods to estimate and evaluate photovoltaic production

Worked problem: PV potential calculation

Solar resource caracterisation and variability

Solar resource estimation techniques

Solar Resource

Solar photovoltaic generation

Renewable energy integration and forecasting

Integration of renewables in the energy system

Challenges and forecasting needs for the energy sector

Energy forecasting tools

Determinism, chaos and predictability

Making forecasts and quantifying uncertainty

Renewables integration and forecasting challenges

Forecasting and uncertainty

Test Renewable Energy Integration and Forecasting

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    Important Dates

    May 25, 2024
    Course Commencement Date

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