Power Analytics Corporation, the leader in advanced electrical power software solutions, today announced the offering of the industry’s first power systems modeling course focused on the design of electrical power infrastructure that incorporates photovoltaics (PV), the process of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into electricity.
Entitled “Modeling and Design of Photovoltaic Systems,” the three-day course – a combination of expert lecture and hands-on model building – is intended for experienced power systems engineers interested in learning how to model power systems infrastructure that incorporates PV components. Participants in the class will be among the first to gain the skills necessary to begin undertaking infrastructure design projects with significant PV content.
The course is based on Power Analytics’ new Paladin® DesignBase™ (version 4.0) modeler released in June. The software incorporates advanced PV modeling capabilities developed as part of High Penetration Solar research projects conducted with the Department of Energy and UC San Diego; training includes dynamic simulation of PV in a power circuit with time-series solar irradiance data. Once created, models can become part of a real-time PV integration – using the Company’s Paladin® SmartGrid platform – including real-time solar forecasting.
