• Introduction to renewable and conventional energy resources. Energy reserves. Energy planning and management.
• Fuel cells - heat pumps. Impact of conventional energy consumption to air quality and climate.
• Solar power: Theoretical approach of solar radiation transfer through the atmosphere. Temporal and spatial variations of solar power.
• Measurements of solar radiation. Calculation of solar energy on horizontal, tilted and sun-tracking planes.
• Systems for harvesting and transformation of solar power. Direct transformation to thermal energy. Applications.
• Space heating. Solar concentrators. Transformation of solar energy to other energy types.
• Wind power: Theoretical approach (wind forces and power extraction, power coefficients). Spatial and temporal variation of wind power. Wind turbines. Streamline theory for ideal and actual wind rotor.
• Power generation from wind turbines. Estimation of wind speed vertical profile.
• Estimation of the wind potential of a given region. Statistical analysis of wind characteristics. Wind farms.
• Other renewable energy systems: Geothermal, tidal and, wave and biomass energy.
• Renewable energy in Greece: Applications and prospects

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