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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Electric Utility Industry Animated Crash Course
  • 1.3 What Happens When You Flip a Switch?
  • 1.4 Generation for Generations
  • 1.5 Fossil Fuels
  • 1.6 Nuclear
  • 1.7 Renewables - Hydroelectric and Wind
  • 1.8 Renewables - Solar, Biomass and Geothermal
  • 1.9 The Generation Portfolio
  • 1.10 Transmission and Distribution
  • 1.11 Outro
Practice Exercise
  • Taking Shape and Fundamentals

Videos
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Usage, Rates and Your Bill
  • 2.3 Utility Types and Prices: Overview, Public Power and Electric Cooperatives
  • 2.4 Utility Types and Prices: Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs)
  • 2.5 Regulatory Compact and Rates Process
Practice Exercise
  • Price and Value

Videos
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Becoming More Customer Focused
  • 3.3 Energy Efficiency
  • 3.4 Distributed Generation
Practice Exercise
  • Not your grandparents' utility

Videos
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Technology and Customer Expectations
  • 4.3 Aging Grid and the Rise of Federal Transmission Regulation
  • 4.4 Federal Regulation and the Environment
  • 4.5 State of Electric Utility Policy
  • 4.6 State Regulation and the Environment
  • 4.7 Outro
Practice Exercise
  • Pace of Change, Technology and Innovation

Videos
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Smart Grid
  • 5.3 Microgrids
  • 5.4 Storage
  • 5.5 Electric Vehicles
  • 5.6 Net Metering and Distributed Generation
  • 5.7 Clean Power Plan
  • 5.8 Future Models
  • 5.9 Outro
Practice Exercise
  • Final Exam - Apply What You Learned!

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