The purpose of this course is to provide an engineering assessment of the most important renewable energy resources and the related technologies for harnessing them, from simple methods to state-of the-art advanced energy systems. Aside from a brief overview of fundamental concepts of energy conversion and perspectives on energy supply and demand, the five main course topics include the following:

·       Solar: photovoltaics and solar thermal including concentrating solar power

·       Wind power: primary mechanical design and system aspects

·       Biomass: resources, thermochemical and biochemical conversion

·       Hydropower: key components along with large-scale and small-scale systems

·       Energy storage: key components and system concepts of electrochemical and thermal storage among others