ER 120
Renewable Energy

University of California, Berkeley  Spring 2002
Energy and Resources Group (ERG)
Thursdays 2:00-5:00 PM
308 LeConte Hall

Professor: Daniel Kammen
Dan's Office Hours & Contact Info

GSI: Robert Bailis:
email: rbailis@socrates.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 8-10am
4152 Etcheverry Hall, 643-2243

Course listserve: renewable_energy@listlink.berkeley.edu

Syllabus [DOC]

Lecture Notes:



Class 1: Intro
Class 7: Wind 1 (hard copies on file at ERG)
Class 2: Traditional Biomass
Class 8: Special lecturer - Michael Moore (CA CEC)
Class 3: Modernized Biomass
Class 9: Large-scale grid-connected Wind and PV
Class 4: Solar Thermal (hard copies on file at ERG)
BREAK
Class 5: Small-scale PV
Class 10: Hydro Power - pico micro and MACRO(class was actually lecture 13 held on 4/25.02)
Class 6: Large-scale_PV
Class 11: Guest Speakers from the PUC - Download Readings here

Lab Project Handouts:



    Biomass Lab (pdf)     PV Systems Lab (pdf)
         PV System Load Profile
         PV System Performance data
RETScreen Wind model (pdf)
         Wind data (excel spreadsheet)
         Link toRETScreen model home-page
        Link to Weibull Statistics lecture notes

Course Readings and Thought Questions

Problem Sets and Solutions
Probem Set 1
Probem Set 1: Solutions

Other Handouts



Useful links...

Energy News

Links to Useful Energy Sites

Links to Renewable Energy and Energy Policy Journals

Energy and Resources Group homepage

RAEL (Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab) Homepage

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Last Updated: 14 February, 2002