UC - Sustainability: Energy Transition
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Sustainability: Energy Transition at FutureLearn Overview
Sustainability: Energy Transition
at FutureLearn
Duration | 3 weeks |
Total fee | ₹1,114 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Sustainability: Energy Transition at FutureLearn Highlights
Sustainability: Energy Transition
at FutureLearn
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
Sustainability: Energy Transition at FutureLearn Course details
Sustainability: Energy Transition
at FutureLearn
Skills you will learn
More about this course
- To tackle the climate crisis, its important for us all to understand the complex problems we face and the significant transformational changes required.
- On this six-week course, you will identify how energy plays a substantial role in our ability to secure a sustainable future.
- Guided by the experts at the University of Canterbury (UC) College of Engineering (COE), this course will help you explore the relationship between energy and emissions, and the effects of climate change on the environment and our future.
- You'll explore why our present energy systems are unsuitable as you identify the changes needed to work towards a sustainable future.
- You will learn about the complexities of these systems and the need to take into account different parameters, including economic viability, so you understand the many factors to consider in energy transition.
- With an understanding of our current energy systems, you will examine the limitations of renewable energy to help you explore solutions to tackle the challenges we face.
- You will also explore the principle of energy transition and the concept of Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) for a deeper understanding of energy systems.
- By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge to recognise the limitations of our current energy systems and identify the path to energy transition and sustainability.
Sustainability: Energy Transition at FutureLearn Curriculum
Sustainability: Energy Transition
at FutureLearn
Introduction: the Unsustainability of Continued Growth
Welcome to the Course
Course Information
Introducing Energy Transition
Building a Positive Future
Wrap-up of Week 1
Energy, Emissions and Oil Supply
Introducing Climate Change
Global emissions and fossil fuels
Oil Supply ? the Unsustainability of Oil Supply
Wrap-Up of Week 2
Renewable Energy Constraints and using EROI to compare energy systems
Introduction to Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Limitations
Economic viability of Energy Systems
The Journey to Sustainability
Your Business Case Proposal
Course Wrap-Up
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