Solar and wind offer clean and renewable ways to produce large amounts of electricity. They have boomed over the last few years, evolving from an eco-daydream to a major market and showing unprecedented growth rates. Yet, installing solar panels and wind turbines is by no means the end of the story. The electrical grid, which connects production means to the end-users’ sockets, is not a simple electron pipe. It is the beating heart of our electricity system and ensures its stability. Solar and wind raise specific challenges for the grid, and these challenges will have to be tackled if we want to deploy larger amounts of renewable sources.

Outsmarting intermittency
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Main physical and economical ingredients of the electrical grid
Current grid stability : motivation, issue and operation
Challenges raised by the integration of larger amounts of wind and solar power sources
Main options considered to circumvent these issues, with their potentials and their limitations
Compétences que vous acquerrez
- Understand upcoming grid challenges for renewable energy sources
- identify the main actors and mechanisms of the current electrical grid
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Introduction
The electrical grid today
Getting solar and wind onto the grid
Conclusions
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An excellent course that focuses on the dispatch of renewable energy, specifically, wind and solar, and highlights the problems and the presents the possible solutions!
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