After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• understand the wider context of inertia’s importance to power system stability,
• distinguish the different timescales for frequency control,
• differentiate between conventional and renewable power plants, in terms of their control behaviour,
• identify and determine relevant dynamic stability measures,
• recognise the different standards for frequency stability in different countries,
• define inertia (in the context of conventional power plants),
• illustrate renewable power system challenges, with respect to inertia,
• explain how decreasing inertia changes the frequency gradient,
• define measures to increase power system inertia, with or without storage solutions,
• operate a software framework for modelling the dynamic stability of power grids, in order to investigate the necessary amount of inertia in relevant power systems,
• analyse a case study in the open-source software, powerdynamics.jl, in order to evaluate different solutions to increase inertia and
• identify measures for wind and pv generation, which will ensure that inertia does not become a limiting factor in integrating variable renewable energies.