Energy Systems

-     characterise the global energy system and its structure and constraints

-     analyse the potential for improving the global energy system based on energy and exergy efficiencies

-     understand the basic relationship between global energy supply and climate change

-     understand recent and future changes of electricity supply due to increasing fluctuating renewables and ‘smart’ technologies

Future Power Supply Systems

-     explain the management, modelling and power balancing within future electricity grid configurations with high shares of fluctuating and distributed generation

-     appraise the main components (incl. chemical storage options) involved in future AC-grid concepts

-     categorise different grid-designs, including mini- and micro-grids

explain the technical principles and resulting limiting factors within “Smart City”, “Smart Grid”, “Smart Home” concepts

Energy Systems

-     Definitions, resources & reserves

-     Global resources & potentials: fossil energies, renewable energies

-     Energy system analysis: Efficiencies at various levels of the energy chain; Exergy analysis

-     Energy scenarios

-     Climate Change

-     Advanced conventional (power plant) technologies

-     Electric power systems with large shares of renewables

Future Power Supply Systems

-     Fundamentals, structure, technologies and operation of electricity grids (incl. balancing power, voltage management, etc.)

-     Distributed generation of fluctiuating power

-     Transmission and distribution grids, storage, vehicle-to-grid-concepts, smart inverters, heat pumps/CHP

-     Different electricity markets (Futures Market, Day-Ahead-Market, Intraday-Market, Balancing Power Market, Self-Consumption)

-     “Smart City”, “Smart Grid”, “Smart Home”, Mini- and Micro-Grids

-     Chemical energy carriers: power-to-gas (e.g. methane) and power-to-liquids (e.g.methanol)