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EEE407 - Renewable Energy (2025-2026 Fall)

 

Course Details

  • Venue: B004, 1st Floor, M4B Building

  • Date&Time: Mondays 13:00-15:30

  • 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)

  7. Renewable Cogeneration (CHP) and Trigeneration (CCHP) Power Plants

  8. Assignment for the Final Exam (Deadline: 15 Dec 2025) [Sample Presentation]

    • Students are responsible for preparing a project work in order to simulate an off-grid rooftop PV power plant for a duplex apartment in the following coordinates:

      • 37.50404415 35.86275261 (which corresponds to 37°30'14.6"N 35°51'45.9"E).

    • As a guideline, notes regarding design criteria are as follows:

      • Surface area belonging to the duplex apartment is 60 m² (Rectangle: 6 m x 10 m),

      • Students are free to design the apartment's rooms and electrical appliances (AC and DC loads),

      • Students will simulate their genuine design by using a comprehensive PV software chosen by themselves,

      • Sizing and selection of PV modules, charge controllers, batteries, inverters will be fulfilled by the students,

      • Students will conduct a feasibility assessment of their design along with investigating current credit alternatives provided by Turkish banks for small-scale renewable energy investments,

      • Students will prepare a presentation that responds all of the above criteria and clarifies each step in detail.

  9. Midterm Exam (17 Nov 2025)

  10. Midterm Exam Solutions (24 Nov 2025)

  11. Wind Energy (1 Dec 2025)

  12. Bioenergy, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Tidal, Ocean Current, and Wave Energy (8 Dec 2025)

  13. Overview of Electric Power Systems and Microgrids (15 Dec 2025)

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