energynautics mainly offers courses regarding all aspects of the network integration of wind power and other decentralized energy generation technologies. In the following, you will find a selection of typical subject areas covered for such courses:
Background information
- European experience regarding the network integration of wind power
- Costs and benefits of a large-scale network integration of wind power
- Discussion of different design concepts of wind turbines
Power network planning and wind power or other decentralized energy technologies
- Basic aspects of network integration
- Capacity value and costs of ancillary services
- European and US experience regarding the network integration of wind power
Operation of power networks with wind power or other decentralized energy technologies
- Network operation and compensation: Risk evaluation and management due to short-term fluctuations in wind power production
- Wind forecasts: Tools and methods for short- and middle-term forecasts in order to improve the planning of network operations
- Voltage control, power quality and protection
- Grid codes and current European and US experiences
- Power networks with high penetration levels of wind power or decentralized power generation
Modelling and simulation of wind turbines
- Introduction into the modelling and simulation of wind turbines
- Wind turbine control
- Dynamic simulation studies in relation to wind power
- Specific simulation experiences, e.g. voltage control, reactive power control, low-voltage ride-through, system stability
Selected courses held by energynautics or including energynautics' contributions:
- Wind Generation in Power Systems: A Short Course on the Integration and Interconnection of Wind Power Plants into Electric Power Systems, organized by Utility Wind Integration Group (UWIG), USA.
- Workshops on the network integration of wind power in New Zealand and Australia
- EES-UETP-course on the network integration of wind power at Dortmund University (Germany)
Currently, Thomas Ackermann holds lectures on wind power at KTH Kungliga Tekniska Högskola (Royal Instutitue of Technology), Stockholm (Sweden). In addition, he has held several lectures at Zagreb University (Croatia) and at Denmark's University of Technology DTU.