Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Renewable Energy: Sustainable Electricity Supply with Microgrids
This online course gave an insight into global access to, and distribution of, electricity. It explored microgrids, its social economic impacts and its technical design. The course covered topics such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7, the different approaches to electrification, microgrids, their advantages and disadvantages, the PyEPLAN design tool and its benefits.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Jon Lovett
Chair in Global Challenges in the School of Geography
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the basic principles of energy networks and microgrids.
- Discuss the global electricity access and distribution, and the principals of universal access to clean energy through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy.
- Investigate the interdisciplinary approaches to renewable energy.
- Evaluate the pros and cons of different approaches to electrification.
- Compare the interaction between technical, social, economic and environmental components of electrification.
- Develop basic practical skills for the development of integrated energy networks and microgrids.
- Evaluate the social and economic impacts of microgrid technologies.
- Investigate the methods used in the technical design of microgrids.
Syllabus
- How affordable and clean is the global access to electricity
- Global access to electricity
- Electrification in developing countries
- Whole systems approach for microgrid design
- Designing a microgrid system
- Socio-economic considerations of microgrids
- Technical design of a microgrid
- Whole system case study
Issued on 5th May 2024
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