The REP Highlights webinar

All courses available Online as Virtual Instructor Led Training – VILT

Public courses 2 full days. Tailored In-House 2 to 3 days

Who Should Attend?

Forward looking Energy Companies. Power Generation, Power Distribution, Utility and Oil & Gas managers tasked with evolving their business towards sustainable energy operations • Informed politicians •  Government policy makers • Developing country policy makers who must understand alternatives • Banjers, Private Equity & Energy Investors who need Key Facts, major trends and a sober, balanced understanding of today’s diverse energy market • Renewable Energy University Departments • Renewable Energy staff who must keep updated to adapt and expand their business • Scientists and technical staff in Sustainable Energy • Energy producers, distributors & retailers • Architects, planners • Individuals or companies installing solar or Off-The-Grid systems • Large energy consumers – could your organisation benefit? •   Mr and Ms Interested General Public

Bring your laptop with MS Excel.

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Renewable Energy is abundant and all around us.  It is energy storage, distribution and critical resources which limit its use. This forward looking and continually updated course follows the logical flow of: Why Renewable Energy > Sources of Renewable Energy > Energy Storage > Energy Distribution.  The course reveals the scale of the Energy Transition challenge ahead of us with facts rather than cliches, distilling and contrasting all major Renewable Energy sources, storage mechanisms and distribution issues using standardised metrics. The course provides an easy-to-use, fact-based tool to compare the numerous aspects of Renewable Energy with the existing oil/LNG infrastructure

Why Renewable Energy? covers climate change, evidence, rates of change vs natural and human adaptation, biodiversity, climate physics, energy in = energy out, radiative forcing, planetary scale, time and inertia.

For each Renewable Energy Source: Hydro, Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Nuclear, Biomass and Ocean the total contribution, intermittency, required storage, engineering setup, equations, key facts and future growth and challenges are compared using LCOE, recyclability and other metrics. The critical resources required for each are juxtaposed graphically with the existing infrastructure to arm us with the facts necessary to address the impending challenges.

For the currently critical topic of Energy Storage we compare emerging technologies covering energy density, hydrogen, green hydrogen, pumped hydro, gravity, lithium ion & redox flow battery’s, CAES, thermal, flywheels, capacitors & SMES and other exciting possibilities using LCOS, pros & cons and their possible applications. “The Hydrogen Economy” is juxtaposed with less problematic, rival other energy carriers such as ammonia and synthetic hydrocarbons

Energy Distribution via electric grids at an equivalent rate (power) of today’s total energy use is explored in some detail to reveal the severe and looming limitations of electric grids.  The advantage of on-demand localised vs intermittent RE sources and the inevitable (?) mass integration with EV’s as a ready distributed power source are investigated. Class input and feedback is encouraged throughout this course to uncover real-world, practical solutions from those directly involved in the multiple and diverse niches of Renewable Energy and Electrification.

This course presents an exciting, detailed and fact-packed review of the rapidly evolving and increasingly diverse energy landscape on our planet today, from an experienced, forward looking energy consultant and highly regarded Course Instructor. The course highlights the typical technological, financial and social choke points that stymie renewable energy implementation in the developed and developing world.  Projects successes and failures are reviewed in technical, financial and social terms, showing ways to circumvent past failures and highlighting technologies set to break through choke points.

Renewable Energy Project Brainstorm. This course seeks to equip us with the knowledge to intelligently critique renewable energy projects, identify flaws, propose solutions and rate projects in quantitative return on investment terms as well as in more holistic, qualitative terms. Each morning the Daily Recap includes brainstorming where the class is encouraged to propose their own RE project for critique by us all.  This influx of fresh knowledge keeps the course exciting, engaging and at the leading edge but also practical and real-world!

Finally, each participant is asked to share just one sentence which they feel is important for us all to know about Renewable Energy – their personal inspiration.