This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills: · Course participants will know that regions with the highest potential for distributed wind tend to have a combination of high-quality wind, relatively high electricity rates for behind-the-meter applications, higher wholesale power rates for front-of-the-meter applications, and siting availability. · Course participants will know that a study has been completed on the ability of New York City’s EV charging network and local utility to meet the eventual demands of more than 100,000 electric cars for hire. · Course participants will know that NREL has created the highest efficiency (39.5%) solar cell, of any type, measured using standard 1-sun conditions. · Course participants will know that thermophotovoltaics have been developed that capture light from heat at 40% efficiency and may be applicable to thermal energy storage systems. · Course participants will know that direct air carbon capture and sequester strategies are being studied. · Course participants will know that abandoned oil and gas wells could possibly be used for energy storage. · Course participants will know that data from mining companies’ unsuccessful exploratory drilling projects could be useful for geothermal companies looking for deep underground heat sources. · Course participants will know that NREL maintains two databases of state and local energy zoning laws and ordinances for siting wind and solar energy projects. · Course participants will know that an advanced pyrolysis process is being developed that converts biomass into refinery-ready biocrude oil for eventual use in producing sustainable aviation fuel. · Course participants will know that a new three-year consortium intended to accelerate the development of cadmium telluride technologies by lowering the cost and increasing the efficiency of the thin-film solar cells has been announced. · Course participants will know that an engineered bacteria will be sent into space as part of ongoing research into solving the problem of plastic waste mitigation on Earth. · Course participants will know that NREL will analyze the electric-charging infrastructure at airports planning to support sustainable aircraft. · Course participants will know that NREL will research development of technologies that can transform buildings into carbon storage structures. · Course participants will know that the emissions generated by the manufacture of silicon and cadmium telluride photovoltaic technologies could become very significant as PV manufacturing increases in the coming decades.
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