Battery Technician Program

The Battery Technician program focuses on skills that are needed in designing, operating, testing, maintaining, and replacing battery cells and packs for various applications.

20 hours

Battery Storage Expert Program

The Battery Storage Expert Program covers all aspects of the Battery value chain, from raw materials to recycling and from cell functioning to innovative battery storage business models.

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Custom Programs for Industry

We will support the regional workforce needs by providing customized training for battery industry stakeholders.

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Battery Types and Functions

Examine the basic types, components and principles of batteries. This self-paced online learning course is designed with your busy schedule in mind, requiring only 3.5 hours of commitment.

3.5 hours

Battery Recycling+

Delve into the options for handling batteries at end-of-life: reuse and recycling. This self paced online learning course is designed with your busy schedule in mind, requiring only 3.5 hours of commitment.

3.5 hours

The Energy System: Present and Future

An introduction to the current and future energy systems, and the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing need to shift to renewable energy sources.

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Importance of Energy Storage

Discover the critical need for energy storage alternatives, the implications for the future of renewable energy resources, and the current and future energy storage market.

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Battery Storage: Potential Applications and Challenges

Explore the different groups of battery storage technology and applications, including grid-scale, behind-the-meter, off-grid storage, and electromobility.

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Battery Origins, Classification, and Components

Explore the historical significance of batteries within the energy sources available, and the different categorizations of the batteries and their related components.

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Electrochemical Concepts Behind Batteries

Explore batteries from the electrochemical perspective, reviewing the physical and chemical qualities that enable them to operate as energy storage technology, as well as the factors and designs that affect battery performance.

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Current Battery Technologies

Discover the properties, advantages, and challenges of the different battery types and classifications. Differentiate and compare lithium-ion, lead-acid, primary, reserve, flow batteries, sodium-beta, and nickel-based batteries.

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Emerging Battery Technologies

Explore the critical emerging metal air and solid-state battery technologies that enable new applications, challenges, and advantages.

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Raw Materials

What materials are needed to create a battery? Explore the very first steps in material processing and extracting that leads to the development and creation of lithium-ion batteries.

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Production and Manufacturing of Batteries

Once processed, materials are further developed and manufactured into core elements within a battery. In this course, you will explore the battery cells and the development process behind putting them together.

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Batteries End-of-Life: Reuse and Recycling

What do you do with batteries once they are at the end of their life-cycle? This course covers the reuse and recycling of batteries and the level of processing that goes into sustainably disposing or recycling the battery

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Power Electronic Converters

This course introduces the core concepts for power conversion, and why it is necessary.

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Power Conversion and Efficiency in Battery Systems

Explore energy system application and efficiency with respect to power conversion principles and measurement. Verify capacity and energy content of batteries, covered by multiple applications as examples.

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Power Electronics and Grid Connection

How do batteries connect with electrical systems? Explore this question in this course as you adopt a power electronics perspective to learn more about power conversion systems (PCSs) and the topologies and functionalities of the related systems.

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Battery Management Systems

A battery management system connects the multitude of components in a system. Explore the need and design of these battery management systems as a system-wide controller, and all the features they provide.

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Battery Testing

This course introduces you to different methods and evaluations required to test performance and safety standards of batteries.

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Modeling, Control, and Simulation of Batteries

Explore the operation and circuitry of a battery system through modeling and simulations, highlighting the components and elements required to maintain and operate systems successfully.

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Battery Storage at Grid Scale

How can we harness the energy of batteries at large-scale production, providing power when and where we need it most? This course explores energy storage at the grid scale using case studies.

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Battery Storage Behind-the-Meter

This course explores consumer benefits and operations for running behind-the-meter energy storage solutions. Learn more about integrating a storage system with a local grid, and the needs it addresses.

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Battery Storage for Mobility

Explore the history of electric vehicles and transportation systems, the technological breakthroughs, and general overview of the current market and future of electric vehicles.

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Battery Storage for Industrial Applications

Led by an instructor representing an underground mining company, this course offers insight into the industrial applications of battery storage technology and the advances being made specifically in the mining industry.

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Business Modeling

Explore business modeling through a variety of frameworks and perspectives relating to the energy sector, and in a digital transformation context.

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Investment Scenarios and Business Models for Battery Storage Systems

Explore the challenges, drivers, and opportunities related to the changing energy system in general. In particular, you will learn more about the role end customers play in the new energy system, as well as the energy storage market at large.

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Legislation and Policy

Explore the main legislation and policies that are relevant to battery storage and emerging technologies. Learn more about how these policies impact business, and where standards and laws interact.

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Cost Assessment of Battery-based Storage Solutions

In this course, you will see how an energy storage system is evaluated on economic feasibility by determining the costs, scope, and budget of the project. You will be introduced to different cost concepts, such as the cost of acquisition and installation of the equipment included in the storage solution, costs associated with operation and maintenance, and costs incurred at the end of a battery’s life.

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Business Examples

This course provides examples and case studies of real businesses forging ahead in the new energy industry, and how they are incorporating modern regulations into their business models.

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