Renewable energy technologies

 7.5 ECTS credits
The course comprises the following:
- Energy sources and their environmental, social, and economic consequences
- Bio energy and geothermal technology: Biomass, biofuels, biomass combined power and heating, geothermal resources, geothermal heating, geothermal power
- Hydro power technology: hydroelectric dams, operation, wave and tidal electric power generation
- Fuel cells: The structure, types, operation, and applications of fuel cells
- Solar cell systems: The interface of PV systems to the main grid, grid operation
- Wind power: Energy conversion, Betz's Law, wind turbines, wind power parks
- Storage systems: Battery systems, flywheel, supercapacitors, thermal storage, hydrogen energy storage, other methods of storage
- Renewable energy on the grid: Main components in electricity grids, distributed energy resources and production, smart micro-grids and energy management

Progressive specialisation: A1N (has only first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level: Master's level
Admission requirements
Registered for 30 ECTS credits of programme courses in Mathematics at the Master level (Engineering), with 15 ECTS credits completed, and 7.5 ECTS credits in Engineering Physics, Industrial Engineering and Management, or Energy and Environmental Engineering, plus upper secondary level Swedish 3 or Swedish as a second language 3 and English 6, or equivalent
Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.

This course is included in the following programme

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  • Start Autumn 2025
  • Mode of study Campus
  • Language English, if required by international students
  • Course code ELAD18
  • Application code KAU-47684
  • Study pace 50% (Day)
  • Study period week 46–3
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