Advancing Clean Electric Power Technologies: Solar Power
This online PDH course briefly discusses the solar market and solar energy’s technical and resource potential. Also, it addresses R&D strategy and priorities, the development and status of solar technologies and markets, projected solar deployment and impacts, and solutions for high-penetration of renewable energy into the electricity grid.
Solar energy offers a number of strategic benefits to the United States. Replacing fossil-fuel combustion with solar energy reduces emissions of human-induced greenhouse gases and air pollutants.
Despite these benefits, solar energy currently supplies only a small fraction of U.S. energy needs, largely because it historically has cost more than conventional energy sources. However, solar manufacturing costs and sales prices have dropped dramatically over the past few decades, and solar technologies are approaching energy-price parity with conventional generating sources in some regions of the United States and abroad.
This 2 PDH online course is intended for mechanical, electrical and renewable energy engineers as well as others interested in learning more about the current solar market and solar energy’s technical and resource potential.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Familiarization with the solar market and solar energy’s technical and resource potential
- Familiarizing with R&D strategy and priorities
- Understanding the development and status of solar technologies and markets
- Understanding the nature of projected solar deployment and their impact on the U.S. electricity markets
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