Renewable Energy Sources and the Smart Grid

This course examines electricity production from various forms of renewable energy, and provides a survey of the function, operation and vision of the smart grid. Renewable energy sources including solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and others are studied in detail, covering availability, dispersion, methods of recovery, utilization and integration into the Smart Grid. Smart Grid topics include digital two‐way communication, automation, and control through the use of computerized technology, smart meters, advanced metering infrastructure, demand response support, distribution automation, electrical storage and others to increase overall efficiency and reliability. In addition, home area networks, time of use pricing, and other efforts to peak curtailment explored in this course

The course is open for registration at any time. Participants will have access to the course until June 30. All registrations received the month of June will have access until June 30 of the following year. The participant will have access to the material within three (3) working days after registration.

This is an individual registration, however you can register multiple people (groups) by adding this registration to the cart multiple times. Each individual registration will then show with the individual's data in the cart. Once all individuals are added, you can check out and process all the registrations with the same contact and payment information. Since there will only be one person (individual) per registration, please remember to have only 1 in the quantity field of this course for each person.