Renewable Energy Systems *Including slide transcripts*

**Now with slides & transcripts for all micro-lectures**

This course provides an introductory to intermediate level foundation of knowledge on the main renewable & sustainable energy options for buildings, from small single family dwellings to large commercial buildings in all climates.

The first series of lectures cover the concepts and terms used in industry around renewable and sustainable energy sources & systems as well as introducing benchmarks for building energy end uses to support evaluation of technologies covered in the course.

The second series of lectures focuses on options that provide heating taking the learner through how they operate, what factors affect their performance and some output estimations that can be used to begin general evaluation. This series begins with a lecture looking into the types of heating demands in buildings including the key metrics as well as benchmark values and sources.

The third series of lectures turns the focus onto sustainable cooling options for buildings, beginning with a lecture on cooling energy demands including benchmarking values and sources.

The fourth series focus is on sustainable options for generating electricity including benchmarking sources and the equipment needed to convert and distribute onsite generated electricity within a building and supplying to a regional or national network grid.

The fifth series introduces sustainable options that provide a combination of thermal and electric energy known as combined heat & power (CHP) or combined cooling, heat & power (CCHP) as well as hybrid solar PV thermal (PVT) systems.

Completing this course a learner will be able to both determine the potential suitability of these renewable & sustainable energy options for a new build or retrofit project and identify what factors will need to be addressed for their successful application. The content includes typical values for general building energy demands and for thermal and electrical outputs that can be expected from the technologies as well as sources.

All these technologies are being increasingly adopted in building projects of all types. Their use provides forward progress on the road to the energy transition and decarbonisation of the built environment.