After successful completion of the course, students are able to explain the concept of energy services, make energy-economic assessments, analyze energy systems, and set up and explain energy balances.
The concept of energy services such as mobility and lighting, assessment and analysis of energy demand and supply structures, fossil energy resources and renewable potentials, basic principles of cost analysis, efficiencies of energy conversion, environmental issues and policy instruments, efficiency and costs, technological change, energy perspectives
Technical, energetic, ecological, econometric and economic methods.
Exercises are solved using software (e.g. Excel, Matlab,...).
The assessment is made by submitting exercises (40% of the grade) and a presentation during the semester (20% of the grade) and a written exam (40% of the grade) after completing the exercises.
In order to be admitted to the written exam, all exercises must be positive and the presentations must be held!
Students have to pass both the exercise part, presentation, and the exam.
Lecture notes for this course are available at TUWEL
