Development of Renewable Energy Projects

Compentency	Implementing project management skills regarding renewable energy projects
Module type	elective module
Semester	winter
Site	Cairo
Language	English
Workload	75 hours course attendance; 50 hours self-study
Credits points	5
Recommended qualifications	none

Project Planning and Tendering

After the successful participation in the course Project Planning and Tendering the students are able to:

Fundamentals of the construction industry:
- project life cycle and organization
- project management process
- types and life cycle of construction projects
Project contract strategy
Delivery methods
Cash flow and cost control
Scheduling techniques, among others:
- bar charts
- line of balance
- critical path method and others

After the successful participation in the course Project Commissioning, Operation and Maintenance the students are able to:

perceive commissioning processes, operation and maintenance practice in REEE projects

RE fundamentals:
- different renewable power generation techniques
- commissioning rules and standards
Case study wind energy:
- basic meteorology, statistical analysis of wind
- type of wind turbines (components, power curve, wind turbine loads, losses)
- economical considerations
- computation of wind power of a site
- wind farm layouts, loss of wind energy, environmental codes and standards, etc
- environmental codes and standards
- wind turbine maintenance ( schedules for different components, power regulation, electric shielding, cleaning of components)
- experience values of wind farm in Zafaraana, Egypt
Case studies to be prepared by students based on the wind energy example:
- solar thermal power plants
- bio fuels power plants
- PV power plants