ELEC-E8406 - Electricity Distribution and Markets, 09.01.2019-10.04.2019

Omfattning: 5

Tidtabel: 09.01.2019 - 10.04.2019

Ansvarslärare (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

John Millar

Kontaktuppgifter till kursens personal (gäller denna kursomgång): 

A timetable for the course is updated every week (the current/upcoming learning session is marked in red).

I, John Millar, am the responsible teacher for the course and handle pretty much everything except for a couple of guest lectures.

My room is 3540, on the 3rd floor of Maarintie 8 (TUAS-talo). I have an open-door policy during the teaching period (January to the beginning of April), but if you want to make sure I am there (I am often in research meetings and sometimes travelling), please email me, with the course code in the subject, ELEC-E8406.

My email is john.millar@aalto.fi.


Undervisningsperiod (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

III-IV (Spring)

Lärandemål (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

You will understand the role, context and contemporary challenges of electricity distribution networks.

You will be able to plan urban and rural electricity distribution networks.

You will gain a critical overview of electricity markets and regulation.

Innehåll (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

Technical and economic aspects of electricity distribution network planning, functioning of electricity markets and regulation of the distribution business.

Närmare beskrivning av kursens innehåll (gäller denna kursomgång): 

Electricity Distribution
Networks

•what
a distribution network is
•what
its main components are
•how
to dimension and cost the
main components
•how
they are interrelated with each other
•technical constraints (thermal limits, short circuits, voltage drop and voltage rise, losses)
•faults
and interruptions
•economics
•how a
distribution network interacts with the world at large
•power
quality
•distributed
generation from a network point of view
•distribution network planning

Electricity Markets
and Regulation

•core
understanding – the difference between natural monopoly and competition
•the
fundamentals of regulating the monopolistic side
•the
fundamentals of buying and selling energy
•balance
•philosophical debate about whether electricity is a marketable commodity or
a vital service
•rising to the challenge - getting the carbon out of the power system!


Working
life skills

•Group work
•Problem solving
•Societal cost-optimal planning skills
•International and Multicultural (in
a broad sense) skills
•Develop
skills
in presenting a point of view, with awareness that there are many points of
view...
•Sense
of perspective / context / interconnectedness

Metoder, arbetssätt och bedömningsgrunder (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

Exam, group assignments.

Närmare information om bedömningsgrunderna och -metoderna och om hur den studerande kan ta del av bedömningen (gäller denna kursomgång): 

Contact sessions (lectures and Q&A sessions) are advised

Assignment presentation session is compulsory

Calculations exercises are up to you, but highly advised!

Group assignment, highly advised but optional (30% of final grade if it helps you)

Mid-term test is advised but optional, and contributes to 6.7% of your final grade if it helps you)

Laboratory work is advised but unavailable this year - John will try to compensate!

Final exam: Compulsory! 2 possibilities (exam dates)

Arbetsmängd (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

Contact teaching 50 h, Assignments 30 h, independent studies and work-based learning 20 h, revision 22 h, exam 3 h.

Preciserad belastningsberäkning (gäller denna kursomgång): 

5 credits ≈ 125 hours of work

Lectures:
17 x 2h   = 54h

Calculation
exercises: 5 x 4h  = 20h

Laboratory
works:  0 x
6h  =  
0h

Assignment
(this
year optional)  » 24h (if you choose not to do it, that
will save me (John) work, but you will miss the main learning tool this course
has to offer!)

This
comes to 98 hours...

That
leaves about 27h for self-study...

If
you don’t come to lectures and/or calculation exercises, you should compensate
with more self-study

If
you just want to scrape through the course, you may get away with much less
than this

If
you want to achieve real understanding and deep learning (and a good grade...)
you should use the above numbers as a guideline!


Studiematerial (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

1) Lecture slides,

2) pdf documents, links to websites

3) Lakervi & Holmes: Electricity Distribution Network Design, 2nd Edition, IEE.

Ersättande prestationer (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

Replaces S-18.3153 and S-18.3154

Kursens webbplats (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELEC-E8406

Förkunskaper (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

ELEC-E8413 Power Systems or comparable knowledge.

Bedömningsskala (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

0-5

Anmälning (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

WebOodi

Tilläggsinformation (är i kraft 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

Course starts in week 2

Language class 3 English

Närmare information om tidtabellen (gäller denna kursomgång): 

The first session is on January 9, 14:15 in AS1 (the first floor of TUAS-talo, Maarintie 8)

Technical content is taught first, practised in calculation exercises, and deeply learnt in the group planning assignment.


Beskrivning

Anmälning och tillläggsinformation

Rules of Conduct - Students´ Rights and Responsibilities (in force from 1 August 2020)

Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity and Handling Violations Thereof