? Credit Points : 10  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : EEL-P-PGEEFRE

The course will introduce the students to the fundamentals of renewable energy engineering concentrating on wind, wave, tidal, and hydropower. The renewable resource will be characterised in engineering terms together with principles of utilising it for electrical energy generation. In doing so, basic electrical engineering concepts will be reviewed and applied to the renewable energy engineering. Problems of grid integration of renewables will be also discussed.

? Prohibited combinations : Mechanical Engineering Fundamentals of Renewable Energy

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Engineering and Electronics), (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Wednesday 09:00 10:50 KB

Revision of electrical engineering concepts necessary to understand the renewable energy resource and its conversion to electrical form.
Understanding of main characteristics of different forms of renewable energy.
Understanding of main problems of grid integration of renewables.

assignments and class test

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Miss Sarah Thomson
Tel : (0131 6)50 5687
Email : S.Thomson@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof Janusz Bialek
Tel : (0131 6)50 5584
Email : janusz.bialek@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/