EECE 512 Renewable Energy Integration and Distribution Systems

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Fall 2016 Syllabus

Spring 2015 Syllabus

Spring 2015 Reading Projects (Prepared by students):

• Microgrid’s advantages for a utility company
• California electricity crisis 2000
  • Timeline of major events
  • Why it happened, how to prevent it in the future
• Electricity Energy Storage Technology Options
  • Compressed air energy storage
  • Flywheels
  • Lithium-Ion battery
  • Vanadium redox battery
  • Sodium-Sulfur battery
• Transaction-Based Building Controls Framework
  • Grid benefits
  • Building owner benefits
  • Overall system hierarchy
  • Communication and control protocol for transactions
  • Dispatchable energy devices in a building