EE445/645 Power System Operation with Renewable Energy Sources

Spring 2010

Electrical & Biomedical Engineering Department

University of Nevada Reno

Dr. Cansin Yaman Evrenosoglu (Dr. E)

Tuesday/Thursday 11:00a - 12:15a

SEM 347

 

This website will be continuously updated during this semester to provide you necessary and sufficient resources for the class. Please check this website regularly and let me know of dead links!

 

Course Description & Syllabus: [ pdf ] [ html ]

This course will describe how large-scale interconnected power systems and energy markets are structured and governed in the U.S. The fundamentals of power system operation will be introduced. Deregulated power system environment will be compared to the previous custom of regulated environments. The advantages and disadvantages of the current deregulated power system industry will be discussed. The students will be introduced to various energy types for electrical power production and their use in the power system operation. The advantages and disadvantages of different energy sources will be summarized and wind, solar, geothermal based power generation will be emphasized. The impacts of these unconventional plants on power system operation and energy markets will be introduced by analyzing the benefits as well as the challenges in power system operation concurrently.

 

Textbooks under consideration:

  • Renewable Energy in Power Systems by Leon Freris and David Infield, 2008, Wiley
  • Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems by Gilbert Masters, 2004, Wiley
  • Understanding Renewable Energy Systems by Volker Quaschning, 2005, Earthscan
  • Wind and Solar Power Systems by Mukund Patel, 1999, CRC
  • Understanding Electric Power Systems: An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace by Jack Casazza and Frank Delea, 2003, Wiley-IEEE Press
  • Power System Economics: Designing Markets for Electricity by Steven Stoft, 2002, Wiley-IEEE Press

 

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Extra Material:

* An introductory MATLAB guide [ pdf ]. You can find more detailed material on google.com or on mathworks.com.

 

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Updated on September 26th, 2009

This website is created & maintained by Dr. Cansin Yaman Evrenosoglu (EPRES)