Solar Utility and Portfolio Management

Catalog description

EME 526 covers the theoretical frameworks and quantitative methods for evaluating and designing solar resource projects. Methods will include quantitative solar resource measurement, forecasting, uncertainty quantification, dynamical systems modeling, and game theoretic models. Students will compare and assess alternative theoretical and quantitative approaches in terms of their ability to address a range of important objectives, including economic, technical constraints, robustness to uncertainty, varying risk preferences of stakeholders, and other ethical and cultural considerations. The course utilizes data sets and modeling resources drawn from actual case studies to provide students context in which to apply and evaluate the methods.