Seminar Potentials of RE in the MENA Region and Europe

Learning Outcomes: • Students know about different effects of energy use on the environment, society and economy. They know methods of greenhouse gas balances and are able to analyse different energy concepts relating to their environmental impacts. Students shall see renewable energies and energy efficiency against the background of the danger of uncontrollable climate change on the one hand and a global economy on the other. Students know about concepts for mitigation and are able to understand necessary adaptation concepts. • Students understand the quantitative basics of energy supply and demand. They are able to assess economic aspects of production, distribution, consumption of energy and energy trade (including sustainability aspects). They understand functions and structure of national, regional and international organisations involved in the energy sector. They understand the economic and administrative rules and regulations and the attitudes that control supply and demand of energy. • Knowledge and understanding: use of spreadsheet application programs to systemize the feasibility studies problems, concepts of decision making, cost estimation techniques and funding requirements; intellectual skills: ability to perceive the environment economic status, demand supply equilibrium, risk analysis; professional and practical skills: costs and cost estimating concepts, methods of economic study, depreciation, income taxes and after tax consideration, price changes and exchange rates, preparing feasibility study; general and transferable skills: money-time relationship (interest and equivalence), replacement analysis and probabilistic economic analysis, financial accounting and feasibility study. • Knowledge of the basics of the different energy forms and conversion technologies; ability to calculate conversion efficiencies for different forms of energy; Ability to analyse energy supply and demand patterns, to identify different energy conservation technologies, to perform energy balance and analysis on thermal systems, to perform energy auditing, to identify and evaluate energy conservation opportunities and to apply energy codes and standards. Literatur • R.M. Auty and K. Brown, Approaches to Sustainable Development, Global Development and the Environment, Routledge, 1st edition, 1997. • Renewables 2007: Global Status Report, 2007, downloadable from http://www.scribd.com/doc/8116771/Global-Energy-Report-Renewables-2007. • U.R. Fritsche and K. Schmidt, Schwerpunktanalyse Regenerative Energien für die RegionNordafrika/Naher Osten (MENA) mit Ergänzungen zur Energieeffizienz, downloadable fromhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/17317686/Regenerative-Energien-fur-die-MENARegion-mit-Erganzungen-zur-Energieeffizienz. • W.G. Sullivan, E.M. Wicks and J.T. Luxhoj, Engineering Economy, Pearson Education, 12th edition, 2002. • D.G. Newman, T.G. Eschenbach and J.P. Lavelle, Engineering Economic Analysis, New York, USA, Oxford University Press, 10th edition, 2008. • J. Matson, Cooperative Feasibility Study Guide, United States, Department of Agriculture, Rural Business–Cooperative Service (RBS Service), Report 58, downloadable fromhttp://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/sr58.pdf, 2000. • Recent publications on renewable energies in the MENA region and Europe. • Lecture notes. Bemerkung Media: Black board and beamer, visiting energy sector organisations in Egypt and discussions with planners and decision makers, slide show and power point presentations, open ended discussions initiated by the lecturer, case studies through team work ended by discussions, computer lab for spreadsheet applications and surveying issues, project work. • R.M. Auty and K. Brown, Approaches to Sustainable Development, Global Development and the Environment, Routledge, 1st edition, 1997. • Renewables 2007: Global Status Report, 2007, downloadable from http://www.scribd.com/doc/8116771/Global-Energy-Report-Renewables-2007. • U.R. Fritsche and K. Schmidt, Schwerpunktanalyse Regenerative Energien für die RegionNordafrika/Naher Osten (MENA) mit Ergänzungen zur Energieeffizienz, downloadable fromhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/17317686/Regenerative-Energien-fur-die-MENARegion-mit-Erganzungen-zur-Energieeffizienz. • W.G. Sullivan, E.M. Wicks and J.T. Luxhoj, Engineering Economy, Pearson Education, 12th edition, 2002. • D.G. Newman, T.G. Eschenbach and J.P. Lavelle, Engineering Economic Analysis, New York, USA, Oxford University Press, 10th edition, 2008. • J. Matson, Cooperative Feasibility Study Guide, United States, Department of Agriculture, Rural Business–Cooperative Service (RBS Service), Report 58, downloadable fromhttp://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/sr58.pdf, 2000. • Recent publications on renewable energies in the MENA region and Europe. • Lecture notes. Bemerkung Media: Black board and beamer, visiting energy sector organisations in Egypt and discussions with planners and decision makers, slide show and power point presentations, open ended discussions initiated by the lecturer, case studies through team work ended by discussions, computer lab for spreadsheet applications and surveying issues, project work. Leistungsnachweis written exam Lerninhalte • Environmental consequences of energy use and production: climate change/global warming, air pollution, water use and pollution, natural disasters, sea level rise, migration and climate change; mitigation: political framework, Kyoto protocol, UNFCCC, technologies for mitigation such as renewable energies, energy efficiency, clean coal; adaptation: risk management, land use change; greenhouse gas balances: fundamentals, methods, calculation. • Basics: the national energy balance (who produces what type of energy, where, and from which source, who consumes it, where, and for what purpose), energy related units, conversions and formulas; sustainability: economic, social, ecologic and political aspects, criteria and indicators of the concept of sustainable energy supply, global and European-Arab strategies of energy supply, trade, and security, -plan solaire”; policies: role of state, role of market, role of private sector, decentralisation, standardisation, policy options and mix, awareness building; regulations: laws, law enforcement, division of labour among organisations, feed-in, economic and social functions of tariffs; organisations: functions and structure of public and private organisations in the energy sector on the national, regional and international level (e.g. IEA, IAEO). • Economic decision, money-time relationship, cost and cost estimating, detailed introduction into building and structuring the feasibility study, methods of economic studies and selection, depreciation, income taxes, after-tax considerations, price change and exchange rate, replacement analysis and probabilistic economic analysis, funding requirements, financial accounting and benefits analysis, complete feasibility study. • Actual energy situation, in particular in EU and MENA countries and in student’s home country with presentation, definitions of potentials, researching specific information sources, actual state and potentials of renewable energies in the different countries, presentation/discussion of actual projects for renewable energies. Determination of economic and calculation of technical potentials of RE in the MENA region. FB 16 Elektrotechnik / Informatik written exam Uni Kassel WiSe 2016/17 REMENA Prof. Dr. Khalil Adel