Dr Kasım Zor

EEE407 - Renewable Energy (Archived Course)

 

Course Details

• Venue: D203, M2 Building

• Date&Time: 13:00-15:30 on Mondays

• Objectives: This course aims to teach students the cruciality and fundamentals of renewable energy, current policies, design considerations and planning of a variety of renewable energy systems, basic principles of Power-to-X, feasibility assessment, energy storage, and grid integration along with microgrids and virtual power plants.

• Contents: Fundamentals of Energy, Transformations, and Units, Introduction to Renewable Energy, Turkish Renewable Energy Policies and Electricity Markets, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic Power Plants, Solar Thermal Electricity (Concentrated Solar Power Plants), Wind Energy, Power-to-X (P2X), Bioenergy, Renewable Cogeneration (CHP) and Trigeneration (CCHP) Power Plants, Geothermal Energy, Hydraulic Energy, Ocean, Wave, and Tidal Energy, Energy Storage, Microgrids, Virtual Power Plants, Feasibility Calculations.

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Lecture Notes

1. Course Introduction and Scope

2. Fundamentals of Energy, Transformation, and Units

3. Introduction to Renewable Energy, Turkish Renewable Energy Policies and Electricity Markets

   1. Overview of Turkish Electricity Markets​

   2. Electricity Generation Corporation (EÜAŞ)

   3. Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEİAŞ)

   4. Energy Exchange Istanbul (EPİAŞ) and Transparency Platform

   5. Electricity Legislations

4. Solar Energy: PV Systems

5. Solar Energy: PV Design Suites

   1. PVSol: Tutorial, Google Earth, and PVSol Online​

   2. PvSyst: Presentation

   3. Helioscope: Residential and Commercial

6. Solar Energy: Solar Thermal Electricity (Concentrated Solar Power Plants)

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Exams

• Week 9: Midterm Examination (2024 Fall) (2024 Spring) (2023 Fall) (2022 Fall) (2021) (2020)

• Week 16: Final Examination (2024 Spring) (2023 Fall) (2022 Fall)

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