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NEW! 2024 December: Advances in Hosting Capacity
A 3-day course that offers a thorough and international overview of the fundamental, advanced, and practical aspects of assessing the ability of existing electricity distribution infrastructure to accommodate distributed energy resources.
Topics include:
- Basics of Hosting Capacity
- Hosting Capacity Challenges
- Making Large-Scale Hosting Capacity Calculations a Reality
- Online Platform “DER and Network Vision”
- Data-Driven Advances in Hosting Capacity
- What is next for Hosting Capacity?
2024 March: Operating Envelopes and Their Implementation
A 2-day course that covers fundamental, advanced, and practical aspects related to the use of operating envelopes (OEs) by distribution companies.
Topics include:
- Basics of Operating Envelopes
- Different OE Implementations
- The Bigger Picture
- Actual Implementation of OEs in Australia (Energy Queensland, SA Power Networks)
- OEs as Business as Usual (including insights from VoltMind)
- Hands-On OE Calculations (GitHub Repositories)
2022 May: Advanced Modelling of DER-Rich Active Distribution Networks
A 5-day PhD-level course that covers fundamental and advanced modelling of active distribution networks with deep penetration of distributed energy resources (DER).
Topics include:
- Power flow and optimal power flow algorithms suitable for diverse applications of active distribution networks with DER
- Consideration for uncertainty arising from renewables
- Orchestration of DER, operating envelopes (Project EDGE), model-free approaches (Project Model-Free Operating Envelopes at NMI Level)
- Provision of flexibility and grid services from DER, distributed multi-energy systems and community energy systems
- Fundamentals of distributed energy markets
2021 July: Advanced Modelling of DER-Rich Active Distribution Networks
A 5-day PhD-level course that covers fundamental and advanced modelling of active distribution networks with deep penetration of distributed energy resources (DER).
Topics include:
- Power flow and optimal power flow algorithms suitable for diverse applications of active distribution networks with DER
- Consideration for uncertainty arising from renewables
- Provision of flexibility and grid services from DER, distributed multi-energy systems and community energy systems
- Fundamentals of distributed energy markets