Interactive & Video Discount Package - New York Energy Efficiency and Ethics 18 PDH

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a summary on the first part of the Solar Futures Study, which includes the discussion of solar futures scenarios and their core results.
 

The U.S. electric grid is one of the world’s largest machines, comprising millions of miles of transmission and distribution lines that connect thousands of large-scale electricity generators to end users. The grid has undergone tremendous change in the past decades, in part due to innovations in the solar energy industry. In 2020, fossil fuel combustion continued to generate most U.S. electricity, emitting around 1.45 billion metric tons (gigatons, Gt) of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. On its current trajectory, the United States is unlikely to meet its targets for keeping global temperature rise below 2°C as specified under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
 

This presentation introduces the first part of the Solar Futures Study which discusses the goals of decarbonizing the U.S. electricity grid by 2035 and shifting the nation onto an irreversible path to a 100% clean-energy economy, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050—while strengthening the American economy, creating well-paying domestic jobs, conserving natural resources, and ensuring that the benefits and costs of the clean energy transition are equitably distributed. The Solar Futures Study uses the state-of-the-art modeling capabilities of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop and evaluate three core scenarios. It also continues to explore what it will take to achieve solar deployment at the pace and scale envisioned in these scenarios, by exploring the synergies between solar technologies and energy storage, and the necessary transformations of the U.S. electric grid.
 

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a summary on the final part of the Solar Futures Study, which includes the discussion of solar and its role by the end-use sector.
 

Besides generating and delivering power, solar can play the most immediate role in decarbonizing end uses that are already electrified or can be electrified in the near term. These end uses are often categorized into three sectors: residential and commercial buildings, transportation, and industry.
 

The first part of this presentation analyzes the role of solar in decarbonizing each of these end uses. For each end use, it discusses the current energy use profiles (electricity and fuels) and prospects for further electrification. It also discusses the role of solar as a zero-carbon resource and enabling technology and explore synergies between the end uses and solar deployment.  The presentation continues to discuss the specific equity implications of solar-based decarbonization of the end uses with a discussion of barriers to and opportunities for maximizing the roles of solar in decarbonizing the end uses.
 

The second part of this presentation introduces the major economic, social, and environmental challenges and opportunities beyond the targeted reductions in carbon-emitting fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and air pollution. It examines the impacts and options associated with the full solar project life cycle, including technology manufacturing, operation, and End Of Life treatment. It also describes circular economy (CE) strategies—such as recycling, repair, and reuse—as approaches to addressing historical environmental justice and equity concerns. The presentation concludes by identifying key R&D needs related to improving the impacts from solar manufacturing, operation, and EOL management therefore resulting in job creation.
 

This 3 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to governments, businesses, and green energy engineers who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the economic, social, and environmental benefits of clean, zero-carbon electricity.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a summary on the third part of the Solar Futures Study, which includes the discussion of technology advances for solar storage and deployment.
 

Energy storage is key enabling large-scale solar deployment. The core Solar Futures scenarios deploy hundreds of gigawatts (GW) of storage capacity. Compared to a 2019 installed base of about 24 GW, mostly in the form of pumped storage hydropower (PSH), adding hundreds of GW of new storage would enable a significant shift in how the nation's electric grid is operated. Following a two-decade hiatus of significant storage deployment from roughly 1990 to 2010 due to lower natural gas prices and availability of easily sited and constructed gas peaking plants, several factors have revived interes in solar storage since 2010.
 

This presentation introduces the third part of the Solar Futures Study which discusses the synergies between solar energy and storage in the Solar Future Visions. It discusses solar-based fuels and opportunities for storage research and development necessary to achieve deep decarbonization. The presentation also explains technology advances for increased deployment including photovoltaics and solar power concentration. It concludes by developing and evaluating solar soft costs, the types of soft costs, and their financing.
 

This 3 PDH online interative presentation is applicable to governments, businesses, and green energy engineers who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the economic, social, and environmental benefits of clean, zero-carbon electricity.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a summary on the second part of the Solar Futures Study, which includes the discussion of integrity and equity within the solar grid.

The Solar Futures vision represents a dramatic change in the composition and operation of the U.S. electric power system. With terawatt-scale deployment of solar, wind, and battery storage technologies by 2050, the grid becomes increasingly reliant on weather-dependent variable renewable energy (VRE) inverter-based resources (IBRs). A significant share of photovoltaics (PV) and storage may be installed as distributed energy resources (DERs), sited at residential and commercial properties.

This presentation introduces the second part of the Solar Futures Study which discusses reliability and the factors associated with it, which can be expressed as the three Rs: resource adequacy (RA), operational reliability, and resilience. The presentation continues further to discuss additional considerations and research needs that are associated with resource adequacy in a high-solar future. It also discusses solutions and research agenda that grid operators and planners need to address to maintain operational reliability under increased deployment, including grid resilience and cybersecurity. The presentation then focuses on the role of solar through the lens of equity by discussing the distribution of benefits and costs and evaluating procedural justice and just transition issues in relation to solar energy.
 

This 3 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to governments, businesses, and green energy engineers who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the economic, social, and environmental benefits of clean, zero-carbon electricity.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a brief overview on achieving resilient communities through the application of relevant methodologies to RE-powering sites, in particular to Wastewater Treatment Plants.

Renewable energy in combination with a decentralized electricity grid can make communities more resilient. In order to achieve this vision, RE-powering can be utilized to provide cleaner energy sources in areas of high demand, while returning land to productive use. EPA’s RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative encourages renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites (RE-Powering sites) when such development is aligned with the community’s vision for the site.

RE-Powering sites also may have attributes that can lower renewable energy development costs and shorten development timeframes. As they are often located within or near population centers, RE-Powering sites also offer opportunities for meeting the specific energy demands of nearby off-takers, such as industrial plants, universities, and as this analysis suggests, critical infrastructure.

For the purposes of this analysis, critical infrastructure includes assets that are key for maintaining public health and safety, such as wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), drinking water treatment plants, hospitals, or emergency shelters.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to renewable energy suppliers and consumers, mechanical engineers and designers interested in re-energizing wastewater plants.

This engineering online PDH video presentation will provide a comprehensive exploration of ethical engineering practices, blending theoretical knowledge with real-world case studies.

This course focuses on ethical practices in engineering, highlighting significant case studies such as the Challenger disaster, the Hyatt Walkway collapse, and others. It explores engineering ethics principles and apply them to real-world situations. The course covers the importance of public safety, sustainable development, and professional integrity while addressing modern ethical challenges like cybersecurity and global impact. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and practical applications, participants will gain the skills necessary to navigate the complex ethical landscape of contemporary engineering practice.

This 1 PDH online video presentation is intended for all professional engineers interested in increasing their understanding of engineering ethics.

This online PDH video presentation provides an overview of what energy usage and demand are, the wide-ranging benefits of planning and implementing a smart energy conservation program, and proven approaches to conduct and communicate a successful energy audit.

Energy is a growing cost center for most businesses, perhaps only behind labor and real estate. Not only is energy a growing cost, but it is also a commodity that in some areas is shrinking in availability, causing a potential existential threat for some manufacturing facilities. At the same time, there has literally been a revolution in energy technology in just the last few years, making improvement in efficiency affordably possible. Many companies, municipalities, etc. are beginning to understand that improved energy efficiency not only saves them direct costs, but also reduces other expenses and can improve productivity, too. This comes by performing a quality energy audit. This webinar will explain some basics in determining one’s energy profile, new technologies to reduce energy usage and demand, and approaches for a successful energy audit.

This engineering online PDH video presentation will establish, through slides and discussions, the impact of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) while highlighting the role of energy storage on the electric transmission and distribution grid.

This presentation will discuss the critical role energy storage will play in the 100% clean and renewable energy systems by 2050 or sooner. Various energy storage stacking options will be discussed in great detail including:

• Deferring transmission and distribution load relief projects
• Peak shifting
• Microgrids
• Solar smoothing
• Non-wire solutions

Additionally, various energy storage types, applications, key energy storage components, critical information, and battery management systems will be discussed. We will highlight the impact of energy storage on the power generation, transmission, and distribution systems as well as utilizing DERs’ inverters and other fast acting electronics to adjust the voltage. Solar performance during sunny, cloudy and peak days will be analyzed as well as the impact of the frequency market energy storage.

This 3 PDH online video presentation is intended for electrical, mechanical and computer engineers as well as others involved in a technical and non-technical level in the renewable energy world who are interested in learning more about the future of the energy systems and the impact of solar, wind, energy storage, fuel-cells, distributed generation, etc. and how to maintain a reliable grid.