Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A professional in the energy business in need of keeping abreast of the changing energy landscape
• A manager tasked with evolving your business towards sustainable energy operations
• Generally interested in renewable energy

How we build your confidence

• Renewable Energy Project Brainstorm: This course seeks to equip attendees with the knowledge to intelligently critique renewable energy projects, identify possible flaws.
• Daily Recap Sessions: Each morning the daily recap includes brainstorming in which the class is encouraged to propose their own RE project for critique by the class and instructor. This influx of fresh knowledge keeps the course exciting, engaging and at the leading edge but also practical and real-world.

The benefits from attending

• That Renewable Energy is abundant. Energy density, storage, and distribution limit its use
• The basic technology behind each major Renewable Energy type
• The natural setting to which each major Renewable Energy type is suited
• Does this emerging technology address a choke point or is it just interesting science?
• The emerging technologies that will propel Renewable Energy over the next five to ten years
• Energy Storage: green hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cells, pumped hydro, gravity, air, solid & liquid batteries, capacitors, chemical, isomers, isotopes, thermal, mechanical, and numerous other emerging storage types; their technology and application
• Good and bad Renewable Energy projects - what made them good, what made them bad
• The role of government and private investment in Renewable Energy
• Why Renewable Energy will replace fossil fuels
• The global imperatives that drive Renewable Energy

Topics

• This topic covers climate change, evidence, rates of change vs. natural and human adaptation, biodiversity, climate physics, energy in = energy out, radiative forcing, planetary scale, time and inertia.

• For each source of Renewable Energy - Hydro, Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Nuclear, Biomass and Ocean - the total contribution, intermittency, required storage, engineering setup, equations, key facts and future growth and challenges are compared using LCOE, recyclability and other metrics. The critical resources required for each are juxtaposed graphically with the existing infrastructure to arm attendees with the facts necessary to address the impending challenges.

• For the currently critical topic of Energy Storage emerging technologies are investigated, covering energy density, hydrogen, green hydrogen, pumped hydro, gravity, lithium ion & redox flow battery’s, CAES, thermal, flywheels, capacitors & SMES and other exciting possibilities. Comparisons use LCOS, pros & cons and possible applications. ‘The Hydrogen Economy’ is juxtaposed with less problematic rival other energy carriers such as ammonia and synthetic hydrocarbons.

• Energy Distribution at an equivalent rate (power) of today’s fossil fuel usage via electric grids is explored in some detail to reveal the severe and looming limitations of electric grids. The advantage of on-demand localised vs intermittent RE sources and the inevitable (?) mass integration with EV’s as a ready distributed power source are investigated.