All right. This course, renewable power. How is it organized? What are the topics we're going to cover? The course is organized into nine distinct modules, or sections, or pieces. And here's what they are and how they cover. First one is this one, introduction. What is this course about? Play forward, right after this video, we'll move on to module 2 electricity basics, fundamental ideas about electricity. What's a kilowatt? How is it different from a kilowatt hour? How does wind turbines work? Essential understanding of electricity systems. What is generation, transmission, and distribution? So, if you're new to the industry, know nothing about electricity, that's fine. Module 2 will bring you up to speed. If you have some experience, it's worth while watching those videos, just as a bit of a refresher. After we have those basics under control, we're going to talk about grid operations. How does the grid actually work? The challenge we'll talk about is, demand has to equal supply exactly 100% all the time. How do you make that work? And talk about how electricity systems function. Once we have that under control, we'll talk about the challenge of renewables, called grid integration. Wind and solar PV, the output of a wind plant, wind power plant, or solar PV plant vary. Wind with the wind, wind goes up and down, or in the case of solar, might be night time, it might be cloudy all of a sudden. So the output of the both types of power plants goes up and down. Okay, how do you make electricity systems work? Given that you have something that comes and goes, how can variable renewables be integrated into grids? The short answer is you can do it, but it's challenging. And there are a variety of approaches and technologies, which we'll talk about in that module. We'll then talk about focusing in on some of those specific tools, or ways to integrate better, integrate renewables into the grid versus storage. The two major types, pumped hydro, and batteries. We'll talk about the technologies, the markets [COUGH] and where those technologies seem to be going. What are some of the drivers for electricity storage? Then we'll talk about demand flexibility. Another way to think about grid integration is can we change how electricity is used and have that change accommodate the variable renewables? Wind until repeated shortages? Yes, but that technology is still relatively early or at least early in its applications to this good integration challenge. But we'll talk about how to make demand flexibility work. We'll also talk with a couple industry experts about where they see this market going and one of the new technologies and approaches that are particularly promising In modules seven. We'll talk about the structure of the industry because it's confusing for new to this field. It's it didn't evolve in kind of irrational, this is how the industry should be organized to be efficient. It evolved historically, and it's changing quickly. So we'll talk about the different actors that role government through all the utilities where private sector fits in and how that structure varies quite a bit by country and over time, even within certain countries. And eight, module eight, we'll talk about what are called wholesale electricity market. So one major change in the electricity industry structure worldwide is the introduction of competition and many countries are adopting competitive wholesale electricity markets. We'll talk about what they are and then the the organizations that are making that happen, which is known as an ISO. Sometimes called the RTO or a TSL, we'll explain what they are and what they do and how renewables fit in with what they're doing. And finally, Module nine will pull all this together and summarize the entire course and a handful of short videos, essentially bringing down the essentials that you've learned along the way. So that's the story of the course. Next video, we'll jump right in electricity basics how electricity works.
