Solar and wind offer clean and renewable ways to produce large amounts of electricity. They have boomed over the last few years, evolving from an eco-daydream to a major market and showing unprecedented growth rates. Yet, installing solar panels and wind turbines is by no means the end of the story. The electrical grid, which connects production means to the end-users’ sockets, is not a simple electron pipe. It is the beating heart of our electricity system and ensures its stability. Solar and wind raise specific challenges for the grid, and these challenges will have to be tackled if we want to deploy larger amounts of renewable sources.
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Outsmarting intermittency
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Subtitles: English
What you will learn
Main physical and economical ingredients of the electrical grid
Current grid stability : motivation, issue and operation
Challenges raised by the integration of larger amounts of wind and solar power sources
Main options considered to circumvent these issues, with their potentials and their limitations
Skills you will gain
Understand upcoming grid challenges for renewable energy sourcesidentify the main actors and mechanisms of the current electrical grid
Shareable Certificate
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100% online
Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Flexible deadlines
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Beginner Level
Approx. 2 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English
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École Polytechnique
École polytechnique combines research, teaching and innovation at the highest scientific and technological level worldwide to meet the challenges of the 21st century. At the forefront of French engineering schools for more than 200 years, its education promotes a culture of multidisciplinary scientific excellence, open in a strong humanist tradition.\n
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
6 minutes to complete
Introduction
6 minutes to complete
1 video (Total 6 min)
1 hour to complete
The electrical grid today
1 hour to complete
5 videos (Total 32 min)
1 hour to complete
Getting solar and wind onto the grid
1 hour to complete
9 videos (Total 50 min)
12 minutes to complete
Conclusions
12 minutes to complete
1 video (Total 2 min), 1 reading
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