Broader Public Programme Syllabus

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Jun 15th, 2021
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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

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