Electrical Energy Storage
EE-40171
Methods in electrical energy storage
have continued to evolve to adapt to changing energy requirements and advances in technology. Designed for students who are interested in electrical energy storage, in conjunction with renewable energy such as solar photovoltaic (PV), wind and biomass. Learn the fundamentals of electrical energy storage technology, evaluation methods and how to prepare for future industry trends. Explore techniques in cost analysis, which is particularly important to the adoption of new storage technology and its growth in the next 10~30 years.
Course Highlights:
- Electricity Storage Technologies Cost, Performance, and Maturity
- Energy Storage System Demonstration and Applications
- Distributed Energy Storage System (DESS)
- Method and Tools for Evaluating Electricity Storage
- Storage System Procurement and Installation
Course Benefits:
- Describe the different types of energy storage and their benefits
- Explain the role of energy storage in modernizing national grid to meet projected demand
- Compare and contrast current energy storage technologies
- Calculate the value of energy storage
- Explain the processes for commercial. industrial, and residential distributed energy storage systems installation and integration
- Describe the main challenges and potential solutions to the widespread deployment of energy storage
- Compare the different business models to procuring and installing storage systems
Course Typically Offered: Online in Winter and Summer quarters.
Prerequisite: A BS in Electrical Engineering and the course EE-40174 Fundamentals of Electric Power or equivalent knowledge and experience.
Next Step: After completing this course, consider taking other courses in the Power Systems Engineering certificate program.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email unexengr@ucsd.edu.
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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:
No textbook required.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 1/13/2025
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Instructor:
Nikola Milivojevic
Prior to founding SunTech, Nikola was Vice President at Bright Energy, a think-tank in the energy storage space, Nikola led a research team that developed a compressed air energy storage system as a part of a Navy project in 2013/14. For the purpose of that project, Nikola put together the team of 20 engineers and successfully developed a 100kW, 400kWh compressed air thermal energy storage system, satisfying all Navy specifications. Nikola was also the Director of Engineering at Southwest Windpower, a leader in the small wind industry, with more than a quarter of a million wind turbines sold. Nikola led a team of a dozen engineers, developing scalable turbine controllers and value engineering to existing units of a product line. Nikola led the certification testing with UL and GL, leading to the Skystream 3.7 product being the first turbine to be certified in a small wind turbine industry. This technology was subsequently acquired by Xzeres Wind and Primus Wind, both companies still sell those wind turbines worldwide. Nikola was also a founder of MagDrive, a start-up company that was developing electronic controllers for wind and solar industries and in 2011 Nikola was a Principal Investigator on the project granted by WE Energies, a Wisconsin utility.
Dr. Nikola Milivojevic earned his Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology and received his MSc and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade. He has published several journal papers and a few dozen conference papers on renewable energy and holds several patents. In 2005, Nikola led a team of students who competed against teams from around the world in the International Future Energy Challenge and took first prize at the finals in Chicago, IL. The President of Serbia, Mr. Boris Tadic, honored the team with the Mihailo Pupin Award, the highest national prize for innovation in technology and science. In addition, Serbian independent daily magazine DANAS listed Dr. Nikola Milivojevic as one of the 100 most successful Serbians in 2005.
