Seminar: TAS1 Renewable Energy Hybrid Systems
Technology – Frameworks – Financing (06.–10.09.2010)
Application
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Location
Berlin, RENAC Training Center, Schönhauser Allee 10-11, 10119 Berlin, Deutschland
Date
06.–10.09.2010 09:00–18:00
Language
English
Category
Hybrid systems
Type of seminar
Technology-specific advanced seminar
Target Groups
Staff from government bodies and other public authorities responsible for renewable energy and energy efficiency legislation
Course Objectives
- Off-grid applications play an important role when it comes to supplying people and technical applications in remote areas with electricity. In many cases they even provide an economically competitive electricity supply solution.
- At the end of the five-day seminar you will gain a fundamental understanding of wind power, PV, power storage using batteries and inverters in hybrid systems. You learn about typical applications in the context of rural electrification and off-grid power supplies. You will get an insight in the essential steps for the planning of hybrid systems. You will be trained to do initial designs of hybrid system using easily comprehensible software, to simulate the power generation costs of different technical variants and have an overview of different software programs.
- Apart from technology, framework conditions and financing are crucial: You will see how governmental incentives support market introduction and what driving forces are in place. Another important aspect is the question of how to integrate all stakeholders in the process and how to activate them. Group discussions and presentations will allow you to develop and exchange ideas for efficient hybrid system market deployment.
- The course will further on show you how to perform an economic analysis of hybrid renewable energy projects and what financing models exist.
Benefits
- Concise overview of hybrid system technology
- Tutors with current business experience teach you the current technology and point out latest trends
- Confidence in the assessment and analysis of the economics of off-grid power supplies based on renewable energies
- Theoretical knowledge that can be readily put into practical use
Course Agenda
- Range of applications
- Solar energy fundamentals
- PV system components
- Wind energy fundamentals
- Wind system components
- Energy storage technologies
- Micro grids
- Consumption pattern analysis
- Hybrid system configuration
- Project planning
- Operation and maintenance
- Economics
- Field trip, practical demonstrations and exercises
- Practical exercises at RENAC’s Training Center with real components and training rigs
- Open discussion, case studies and field trips
Exercises
- Energy yield of wind turbine and of PV-modules
- Wind laboratory: Wind speed measurement and measurements on laboratory wind turbines (two persons at one turbine; power curves, one/two/three bladed turbine, pitch blade)
- PV-Laboratory: PV system configuration and testing
- Software: Calculation of electricity costs for a hybrid wind-PV-battery system; Sensitivity analysis; Calculation of electricity costs if a diesel-generator is added to a hybrid system and if fuel costs change.
- Group work and presentation/discussion of results: business model development for rural electrification
- Field trip to hybrid system in operation and field trip review
Software and Hardware
- PV Modules
- Wind turbines for laboratories (12 cm rotor diameter)
- Anemometer
- Voltmeter, Amperemeter
- HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
Course materials
Participants of this course will receive all presentations as a print out as well as information on further reading.
Lecturers
Albrecht Tiedemann, Renewables Academy AG; Frank Jackson, Renewables Academy AG and others
Contact and further information
For information about course content and application procedure, please, use our TREE contact form.
Important notes!
Travel and accommodation costs are not included in the scholarship and must be funded individually. RENAC provides information on hotels in Berlin.
For your TREE application we kindly ask you to prepare:
- Your CV for upload (.pdf or .doc)
- A letter of motivation for participating in the TREE course (900 characters)
- A short description how you will integrate and apply the knowledge gained in the course into your profession & daily work (900 characters)
- An answer to our question: What do you expect from the TREE course?
Application
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