About this Training Course
Microgrids play a significant role in supporting the industry’s decarbonization efforts by providing localized, renewable energy solutions. Microgrids are a vital tool in the transition to a low-carbon future. By enabling local renewable energy generation, enhancing resilience, and supporting innovative technologies, microgrids contribute significantly to the decarbonization efforts at both community and national levels.
In the context of a microgrid, a BESS can be connected to various distributed power generators to create a hybrid solution, increasing the reliability of supply of electricity to the local users. Microgrids can be leveraged to reduce emissions by strategically switching to low- or no-carbon energy sources and allow operators to generate revenue streams by participating in ancillary markets. As a Distributed Energy Resources (DER) are less expensive to operate than diesel gensets. By developing a microgrid system with one or more BESS’s, businesses can supply the critical loads such as data centre in a cost-effective way.
This course presents the state of the art in power electronics of inverter-based resources that allow an advanced, flexible and economic operation of the microgrid. Microgrids often serve as testbeds for innovative technologies, such as advanced control systems and new energy management strategies, contributing to broader decarbonization efforts. The microgrid’s control system controls the demand response through dispatchable generation and loads and ensures safe, effective, affordable, and reliable power supply to consumers.
The Internet of Things (IoT) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are used together to create smart microgrids that can control and monitor the energy supply. An effective Energy Management Systems (EMS) is vital for the successful operation of microgrids, enabling them to function optimally, enhance sustainability, and provide reliable energy to communities. The course presents the EMS in microgrids as a critical component for optimizing the generation, storage, and consumption of energy and increasing the reliability and resilience of the network.
- Analyze modern microgrid concepts and evaluate grid-connected microgrid systems.
- Implement effective communication models between Distribution System Operators and Microgrids.
- Design and optimize Microgrid Controller functions for enhanced system performance.
- Integrate and manage PV power systems within microgrid architectures.
- Apply centralized and distributed control strategies in microgrids, including primary, secondary, and tertiary control levels.
- Develop and deploy Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Real-Time Digital Simulators (RTDS) for efficient microgrid operations.
- Implement fault ride-through capabilities and execute active fault management techniques for improved microgrid resilience.
- Assess and mitigate cybersecurity risks in microgrid systems to ensure secure operations.
Grid operators, Utility professionals, Cybersecurity Specialists, IT professionals specializing in IOT and SCADA systems for energy applications. Energy systems managers and professionals working in the renewable energy sector.
- Basic
- Intermediate
Your Expert Instructor is a Utility Executive with extensive global experience in power system operation and planning, energy markets, enterprise risk and regulatory oversight. She consults on energy markets integrating renewable resources from planning to operation. She led complex projects in operations and conducted long term planning studies to support planning and operational reliability standards. Specializing in Smart Grids, Operational flexibilities, Renewable generation, Reliability, Financial Engineering, Energy Markets and Power System Integration, she was recently engaged by the Inter-American Development Bank/MHI in Guyana. She was the Operations Expert in the regulatory assessment in Oman. She is a registered member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada. She is also a contributing member to the IEEE Standards Association, WG Blockchain P2418.5.
With over 25 years with Ontario Power Generation (Revenue $1.2 Billion CAD, I/S 16 GW), she served as Canadian representative in CIGRE, committee member in NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), and Senior Member IEEE and Elsevier since the 90ties. Our key expert chaired international conferences, lectured on several continents, published a book on Reliability and Security of Nuclear Power Plants, contributed to IEEE and PMAPS and published in the Ontario Journal for Public Policy, Canada. She delivered seminars organized by the Power Engineering Society, IEEE plus seminars to power companies worldwide, including Oman, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, Romania, and Guyana.
Our Key expert delivered over 60 specialized seminars to executives and engineers from Canada, Europe, South and North America, Middle East, South East Asia and Japan. Few examples are:
- Modern Power System in Digital Utilities – The Energy Commission, Malaysia and utilities in the Middle East, GCCIA, June 2020
- Assessment of OETC Control Centre, Oman, December 2019
- Demand Side management, Load Forecasting in a Smart Grid, Oman, 2019
- Renewable Resources in a Smart Grid (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, GCCIA, Saudi Arabia)
- The Modern Power System: Impact of the Power Electronics on the Power System
- The Digital Utility, AI and Blockchain
- Smart Grid and Reliability of Distribution Systems, Cyme, Montreal, Canada
- Economic Dispatch in the context of an Energy Market (TNB, Sarawak Energy, Malaysia)
- Energy Markets, Risk Assessment and Financial Management, PES, IEEE: Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Portugal, South Africa, Japan. Provided training at CEO and CRO level.
- Enterprise Risk methodology, EDP, Portugal
- Energy Markets: Saudi Electricity Company, Tenaga National Berhad, Malaysia
- Reliability Centre Maintenance (South East Asia, Saudi Electricity Company, KSA)
- EUSN, ENERGY & UTILITIES SECTOR NETWORK, Government of Canada, 2016
- Connected+, IOT, Toronto, Canada September 2016 and 2015
- Smart Grid, Smart Home HomeConnect, Toronto, Canada November 2014
- Wind Power: a Cautionary Tale, Ontario Centre for Public Policy, 2010
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