GLOBAL OBJECTIVE
Identify and define components & principles of smart grid.
DETAILED OBJECTIVES
Context & Challenges:
- Define impacts of smart grid at different scale (home, building, city, territory).
- Define the role of smart grid in energy transitions and the evolutions of actors’ roles in the value chain.
Electric Network & Infrastructure:
- Identify technical elements that are part of the smart grid.
- Identify main functioning modes of electric grids (transmission, distribution) and constraints of interconnexions.
Information System dedicated to Energy:
- Identify digital components that contribute to smart grid.
- Identify the nature and the path of data involved in smart grid.
Management and Decisional System:
- List mechanism and role of digital in exploitation optimisation and network efficiency.
- List the usage of data in optimise network efficiency.
Policy & Economy in Energy
- Identify main trends of UE policy that influence smart grid territories.
- Identify development plan of smart grid
CONTENTS AND SUBJECTS TACKLED:
Context & Challenges:
- Relation between electricity and environment,
- Role of the actors in the energy sector (transmission, distribution, retailers, regulators),
- Difference between regulated and deregulated actors
- Concept and principle of smart grid
Electric Network & Infrastructure:
- Energy life cycle
- Different type of power production (thermal, renewable, combined)
- Power storage
Information System dedicated to Energy
- Information system definition
- Communication technologies and computer network
- Introduction to Application Programming Interface
- Introduction to cybersecurity
- Introduction to blockchain
Management and Decisional System:
- Electricity network state estimation
- Demand-side management
- AI and forecast to manage energy
- Decision making process
Policy & Economy in Energy:
- Business model
- Cost and benefits analysis
- Environmental issues and energy policies (EU policies)
- GDPR for energy information system
- Changing consumer behaviour
- Smart meters to support changes
TECHNICALITY
- No math
NUMBER OF LECTURES AND DURATION
- 33 Lectures (10-11 hours total work)
- 5 weeks (around 2 hours per week)
PROFILE OF PARTICIPANT
- Public decision maker
- Managers
- Future students
- Person with no knowledge about energy