Number of hours
- Lectures 6.0
- Tutorials 4.0
ECTS
ECTS 0.5
Goal(s)
To have students aware of the various aspects of energy:
- resources, reserves, production, distribution, consumption ;
- management, savings ;
- political choices and economical aspects.
Content(s)
a) Plenary lectures:
Lectures change each year. List for 2012:
Technical aspects of energetics and rational use of energy.
Production of electricity via hydraulics and wind turbines.
Fuell cells.
Storage of energy.
Solar energy: overview and perspectives.
The various forms of energy in France, Europe, worldwide.
Electricity production via nuclear reactors: technical aspects and issues.
The interconnection of electrical networks at the European scale.
Overview of oil production.
Energies at various scales.
b) Workshops: prepared and presented by the students
Examples of topics covered:
aspects of solar energy;
geothermy: domestic use and electricity production;
coal: an energy of the past or of the future;
alternative energy sources;
the nuclear industry.
Prerequisites
No
Test
Workshop evaluation
Bibliography
International Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA
Agence pour l'énergie nucléaire AEN
World Energy Council
UN data base
BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Ministère de l’Environnement Direction Générale Energie
Observatoire de l’Energie
Ministère de l’Industrie
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Institut Français du Pétrole
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique
US Department of Energy
The Millenium Project, think tank commissioned by UN
Union of Concerned Scientists
Observatoire des Energies Renouvelables
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
French State controlled diploma conferring a Master's degree
