5-PDH Renewable Wind Energy Course – Past, Present, and the Future An On-Demand Seminar on Essential Fundamentals of Wind Energy - Designed to benefit engineers of all disciplines. Credit: 5 PDH’s Lead Instructor: Professor Bobby Rauf, PE, CEM, CMT, CE, MBA Course description This course caters to Engineers, Technicians, Facilities Managers, Energy Professionals, Architects and others who are interested in enhancing their understanding of renewable wind energy and would like to learn about how wind energy stacks up against other types of renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. In this seminar, wind energy is contrasted with other proven renewable energy sources with sustainability, technical, geographic, and financial feasibility in mind. No prerequisite is required for this seminar, we begin with basics of energy and important wind energy facts. Important metrics, i.e., capacity factor, associated with wind energy, and renewable energy in general, are covered. Different, proven, energy storage systems typically included in the utility-scale wind energy projects are discussed. The physics principles behind wind turbine design and it’s performance are introduced. Lessons learned from the Texas freezes of 2017 and 2021 are reviewed and associated myths are debunked. Some of the largest wind energy installations in the US and the rest of the world are discussed and compared. Updates on some of the US and International, offshore, current and planned wind turbine projects are discussed. Some cutting-edge wind energy systems – not widely adopted yet - are introduced. The discussion on the topic of renewable wind energy is sustained by diagrams, tables, graphs, and pictures.