PgDip Engineering – Power System Planning and Operations
The Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering (Power System Planning and Operations) at Stellenbosch University explores the operational power system flexibility optimisation where technical systems and electricity markets interact, and flexibly operating power plants.
Duration
1 year (Full-Time)
2 years (Part-Time)
Starting Date
February
Tuition Fee
79,375 – 113,750 ZAR
Location
Stellenbosch, South Africa
About the programme
The Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering (Power System Planning and Operations) at Stellenbosch University explores the operational power system flexibility optimisation where technical systems and electricity markets interact, and flexibly operating power plants and the principles and techniques informing optimised long-term generation capacity planning, and transmission expansion planning.
Topics include:
- Medium- to long-term operational planning
- Real-time operations: intelligent alarm management, state estimation for decision-making, real-time contingency analysis etc.
- Constraints (capacity, energy, stability, flexibility, liability, emission, water, etc.)
- Definition of planning scenarios (deterministic/worst case, market-simulation based etc.), objectives and constraints (incl. system security)
Courses Included:
- Power System Planning
- Power System Operations
- Power Plants
- Technical Systems
- Electricity