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

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