Course Description
A grid built for synchronous coal and gas plant behaves differently when a third of its generation is inverter-based, weather-driven and geographically dispersed. Kazakhstan is moving from 7% renewables toward 15% by 2030 — and the binding constraint is no longer generation capacity but the system's ability to absorb it.
This course develops grid integration capability. Participants learn the technical characteristics of variable renewables, inverter-based resources and their differences from synchronous machines, system inertia and frequency response, voltage control and reactive power, grid codes and connection requirements, hosting capacity and curtailment, forecasting and dispatch, storage and flexibility, and the system studies through which integration is planned and defended.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the technical characteristics of variable renewable generation
- Distinguish inverter-based resources from synchronous machines
- Address system inertia and frequency response
- Manage voltage control and reactive power
- Apply grid codes and connection requirements
- Assess hosting capacity and manage curtailment
- Apply forecasting and dispatch of variable generation
- Use storage and flexibility to support integration
How the course is delivered
The course combines power system engineering with integration studies and stability exercises using realistic system configurations and renewable penetration scenarios.
The programme addresses the practical questions that determine integration: how much can the system absorb, what breaks first, and what must be built or procured to raise that limit.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Power system and grid engineers
- Transmission and distribution utility staff
- Renewable project engineers addressing connection
- Regulators and system planners
- Anyone managing renewable integration
Daily programme
- Characteristics of wind and solar generation
- Variability, uncertainty and correlation
- Inverter-based resources versus synchronous machines
- Impact on system operation
- System inertia and its decline
- Frequency response and reserves
- Voltage control and reactive power
- Fault behaviour and protection
- Grid codes and connection requirements
- Compliance testing
- Hosting capacity assessment
- Curtailment and its management
- Forecasting variable generation
- Dispatch and system operation
- Storage and flexibility resources
- System studies, integration planning workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
