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Certificate in Wind Power
Our comprehensive 2-day introduction to wind energy: Resources, Power Conversion, Grid Integration, Economic Factors
26—27 October 2011, London, United Kingdom
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Course objectives
- Understand wind turbine technologies and how they are evolving
- Discover the scale, potential and practical limits to wind energy
- Compare and contrast onshore and offshore wind power, including the specific challenges associated with the expanding the latter
- Learn about the problems associated with large-scale wind power integration into power grids – and the solutions available to solve this
- Quantify the economics of wind power and its competitive context
- Specifically designed for those in high-level, commercial functions, with no assumption of science or engineering expertise: understand the science & technology but in a commercial and economic context
- Hear about the challenges as well as the opportunities in an independent, hype-free environment
Who will gain most value from this course?
Example Sectors
- Wind Power Developers and Supply Chain
- Power Transmission & Distribution
- Power Utilities and Traders
- Investment and Insurance
- Policy making and Regulation
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Example Job Functions
- Business Strategy & Development
- Sales & Marketing
- Finance and investment strategy
- Legal and Policy
- Product and Project Development
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Level & Style
Although the course includes scientific and technical information and terminology, we assume no prior technical knowledge. Our typical audience needs to understand the technology fundamentals, their economics, development and market applications; not the engineering practicalities of “hands-on” installation.
The course runs in a friendly, informal manner, encouraging discussions and questions to ensure that participants get the most out of their time.
Approximate Timings (include lunch plus morning and afternoon refreshment breaks):
Day 1: 09:00 - 17:00 // Day 2: 09:00 – 16.00
About your trainer
 Dr John Massey is Green Power Academy's founder, Training Director, in-house renewables expert and lead trainer.
Combining a strong academic science background with over fifteen years commercial experience of industry research, analysis and training across a variety of “new technology “ industries (including conventional and renewable energy, telecoms and IT), Dr Massey is expert in demystifying the terminology and workings of new technologies, and presenting their commercial and business context.
He delivers training globally, to senior executives from a range of organisations from project development to finance and has also developed educational material for both live and distance learning courses.
He holds a 1st Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, a PhD in Earth Sciences and a Diploma in Economics, Innovation and Sustainability.
“Very solid introduction from a very knowledgeable instructor”
“Rich in discussion”
“Good balance between theoretical and interactive”
Agenda Details
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Wind Power Resources
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Wind Turbines and Farms
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- Introducing the key measures and concepts in measuring energy and power: which matter the most from a commercial perspective?
- How wind energy varies with speed, height and other factors
- Techniques and technologies for gathering wind data, including emerging methods
- “Average” wind speed measurements and what these mean in practice
- Wind speed distributions and their importance in planning
- Wind power maps and world resources
- A market review: current wind power usage and growth trends
- Comparing and contrasting onshore and offshore wind resources
- The potential of wind to contribute to large-scale energy use; and the constraints on getting there
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- Wind turbine designs: HAWTS, VAWTS - the differences and similarities, pros and cons
- Wind turbine aerodynamics: how turbines collect energy
- Wind turbine power curves and coefficients
- Basics of operation and control, including power vs. RPM vs. torque
- Other system components that make up turbines and wind farms
- Wind turbine components, including gearboxes and generators: their evolution, O&M costs, risks and reliabilities
- Project development stages in wind farm deployment
- Wind Farm layout, land/area usage and planning; including concerns such as wake effects and transmission cabling costs
- Planning issues such as environmental impacts, key stakeholder concerns and health & safety assessments
- Specific installation, foundation and O&M challenges for offshore wind
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Wind Power and the Grid
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Wind Economics
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- Grid Power: sources of generation, variations in demand, balancing supply
- Electricity markets and price determinants
- Wind Power Variability and solutions to integrate wind into the grid
- Truths and myths about “backup” generation to cope with wind variability
- Electrical systems and grid integration
- Offshore grids: concepts, proposals and commercial challenges
Electricity Storage and wind power
- Understanding current and future storage options, including:
- Pumped storage
- CAES (compressed air energy storage)
- Flywheels & Capacitors
- A multitude of battery types, including: Flow, NaS, Metal-air, Li-ion, Lead-Acid, fuel cells...
- Explaining the differing characteristics and appropriate applications of the various storage technologies: for example load-shifting versus power quality
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- Available current data on:
- Capital and installation costs, including recent trends
- Operations and maintenance costs, including availability and failure risks
- Market contribution and pricing impacts of wind power, including curtailment risks
- Estimating lifecycle costs of wind:
- Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCOE) for wind
- Levelised vs. marginal cost in electricity pricing
- Sensitivity analyses: which factors matter most?
- Criticisms of LCOE and issues to consider when comparing different studies
- Wind power cash flows and returns and the key determinants of profit; including the impact of policy incentives
- Wind in a competitive context:
- Cost comparisons with other power producers, both fossil and renewable
- A critique of metrics such as LCOE in comparing different power sources
- Voting with their feet: where investment and regulatory support is going
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