Course Name
Alternative Power Sources 
Course Overview 
Level of study	Master Degree	
Workload	ECTS: 3
Total Hours: 108
Contact Hours: 32
•	Lectures: 8
•	Labs: 16
•	Seminars: 8	
Course Code		
Semester	Winter 	
Prerequisites	Energy Production, Basics of Power Supply, Economy of Energy	
Course Objectives	Comprehensive overview of renewable energies including solar energy, wind power, hydropower, fuel cells, biomass, and alternative transportation options. 	
Learning Outcomes	Students will be taught the principles of design autonomous power sources and supply systems. Students will learn how to assess the viability of a solar power, geothermal power, wing energy power and power of water steams. Students will be able to analyze these renewable energy systems and will calculate savings fractions backup energy needs financing options and economic analyses. The student will investigate the potentials of renewable energy technologies to help solve environmental and economic problems within society.	
Syllabus	Basic course provision. Power characteristics of solar radiation. Solar-electric station
The energy characteristics of wind. wind Power
Energy characteristics of watercourses. Micro hydropower
Geothermal power plants. Bioenergetics 
Technical and economic characteristics of renewable energy sources.	
Labs	A study of energy characteristics of  PV modules
A study of autonomous power supply system on the basis of PV modules
A study of energy characteristics of wind turbine AIR-X
A study of autonomous power supply system on the basis of wind turbine AIR-X	
Projects	-	
Assessment	Exam	
Resources
	M.A. Surkov, B.V. Lukutin 
Renewable energy sources: Tutorial / M.A. Surkov, B.V. Lukutin. ; Tomsk Polytechnic University. – Tomsk: TPU Publishing House, 2013. – 147 p.	
Instructors	M.A. Surkov 
http://portal.tpu.ru/SHARED/m/MASUR