Applying Renewable Energy: Market Leaders Course
What makes a renewable energy project successful? In this renewable energy online training, you’ll explore the most promising renewable energy technologies — and see how they’re implemented around the globe.This practice-based renewable energy systems course introduces you to technologies with the largest market share worldwide. Through a series of concise modules, you’ll explore how solar, wind, and biogas technologies are being deployed— and what makes them successful.
From off-grid solar to utility-scale wind and biogas-to-power applications, the course is ideal for those seeking actionable insights into the most promising renewable energy solutions being implemented today. You’ll discover how to overcome challenges in policy, finance, and technology to build scalable, bankable renewable energy systems.
What you’ll learn:
- Which technologies dominate today’s renewable energy markets
- How successful RE projects are designed, financed, and operated
- Key drivers behind large-scale solar, wind, and biogas deployment
- Global examples of policy, planning, and project execution
Additionally, each participant will have access to short introductory courses on energy and electricity topics to learn or revise the basics. These courses are not mandatory, and will not be covered in the exam.
- Flexibility to study at any time and from any location
- Moderated discussion forum for students
- Contact with learning facilitators
- Be trained by certified e-learning instructors and experienced professionals
- Live lectures
- Multimedia learning materials
- Self-assessments
- Various assignments and final exam
- Certified by the Staatliche Zentralstelle für Fernunterricht – ZFU (German Authority for Distance Learning)
- Discounts for our alumni, group bookings, and multiple purchases
- RENAC certificate upon successful completion of the course
Photovoltaics:
- Applications and market development
- Solar radiation
- System components
- System configurations (grid-tied and off-grid)
- Introduction to system design and yield estimation
Biogas:
- Benefits and potential
- Classification of biogas plants
- Components of industrial biogas plants
- Substrates for biogas generation
- Biogas energy conversion
- Digestate as fertilizer
- Planning and implementation of biogas plants
Wind power:
- Wind as a resource
- Physical basics of wind power
- Turbine elements
- Energy yield calculation
- Wind farm planning steps
- Learners who would like to refresh technical knowledge
- Professionals working in renewable energy project development
- Energy consultants and technical advisors
- Engineers and technicians entering the green energy sector
- Policy makers and planners in sustainable energy
- Investors and financiers seeking practical RE project insights
- Participants looking for a compact, practice-oriented renewable energy systems course
- Anyone interested in renewable energy online training with a global perspective
- Duration: 6 months
- Study time: About 60 hours
- Training language: English or Spanish
- Detailed course description: A detailed course description is available for download here.
- E-learning platform: Access the demo course on our e-learning platform.
- Price: €425.21*
- Assess resources and suitability of sites for each technology
- Decide which components are to be used for which purpose
- Roughly calculate system size and energy yield and determine crucial paramerters
- Explain the principle functioning of each technology
Possible specialisations after successfully finishing this training:
Certified Renewable Energy Project Developer with a focus on Photovoltaics or Biogas