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Distributed Renewable Energy Resources

ECE-40284

Obtain a solid foundation to renewable energy resources

including solar (both photovoltaic and concentrating solar power), wind power and hydro on distribution and transmission power systems. The class will explore the opportunities and challenges of integrating renewable energy sources into the conventional power grids in the USA and globally. It will present lessons learned from such applications from real-life situations.

Course Highlights:

  • Learn the classification and types of hydroelectric plants
  • Wind energy
  • Wind turbines
  • Solar photovoltaics
  • Distribution systems from photovoltaic systems
  • Smart inverters

Course Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognize applications best suited for distributed renewable energy resources
  • Identify the merits and challenges in integration distributed renewable energy resources into the power grid in the transmission and distribution system
  • Become cognizant in the use of some of the available analytical tools for locating, sizing, and calculations for distributed renewable energy resources
  • Perform essential calculations for sizing different distributed energy resources
  • Explain state-of-the-art distributed energy resources components and systems
  • Know the latest standards of distributed energy resources

Optional Reading:

  • Renewable Energy: power for a Sunstainable Future - 4th edition by Stephen Peake - ISBN13: 978-0198759751
  • Power Grid Resilliency for Adverse Conditions by Nicholas A bi-Sambra SINB13: 978-1630810177

Course Typically Offered: Online in Fall and Spring quarters.

Prerequsite: A BS in Electrical Engineering preferred or equivalent knowledge and experience.

Next Step: Upon completion of this course, consider taking other courses in our Power Systems Engineering certificate program.

Contact: For more information about this course, please email unexengr@ucsd.edu.

Course Information

Online
3.00 units
$845.00

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This course applies to these programs

Power Systems Engineering

Course sessions

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Section ID:

184057

Class type:

Online Asynchronous.

This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

Textbooks:

All course materials are included unless otherwise stated.

Policies:

  • No refunds after: 9/30/2024

Schedule:

No information available at this time.
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Instructor: Nicholas Abi Samra

Nicholas Abi Samra
Nicholas Abi-Samra serves as the Principal at Electric Power and Energy Co. and as Senior Technical Director at Worley, in addition to his teaching role at UC San Diego Extended Studies Division. His career includes positions such as Westinghouse Fellow, Senior Technical Executive at EPRI, Vice President at Quanta Technology, and Senior Vice President of Power Transmission & Distribution at DNV GL. He authored "Power Grid Resiliency Under Adverse Conditions" (2017) and “Microgrid Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Resilient and Sustainable Energy Systems” (2024). He also authored or co-authored more than 150 scholarly publications, as well as developed fifteen advanced power engineering courses.

Abi-Samra chaired the 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting and has led the IEEE Power & Energy and Power Electronics Societies in San Diego for a decade.
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