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Renewable Energy Technologies: Photovoltaics Fundamentals, Technology and Application

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available to you, This course covers basic principles and design of the main Renewable energy technologies (PV, wind and CSP), and the current RE regulation in world.

Basic and Application of Renewable Energy

· Introduction to Renewable energy.

· Solar energy basics and applications.

· Wind energy basics and applications.

· Tidal energy basics and applications

· Geothermal energy basics and applications.

· Hybrid Renewable energy.

· Solar PV-Wind Hybrid system.

· Economics of Renewable energy versus traditional energy.

· RO-PV-Wind system for sea water desalination.

  • Introduction
  • Facts and figures about the RE:
  • PV Basics:
  • Off-grid PV System: OFF Grid
  • Off-Grid PV System Design and Sizing: Off Grid
  • On-grid PV System
  • Grid Connection Challenges
  • Wind Energy Basics
  • Wind Farms Grid Connection
  • CSP
  • CSP Technologies
  • Compare between Different technologies
  • CSP vs. PV
  • The Current RE Regulation in world
  • Case Studies for Different types of Customers