ENERGY: THE GLOBAL SCENARIO AND ITS ROLE FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Part II
Course Objectives and Topics
This course aims to present a general overview and specific in-depth analysis of the various aspects of the Sustainable Development and Global Energy situation, analyzing in particular the relation between energy, environment and development.
The specific objective is to provide students with knowledge of the problems regarding the availability, potential and economics of the primary energy sources and the link between energy and sustainable social-economic development.
- The short-course offers an insight into the main renewable technologies for distributed generation (solar, wind, mini-hydroelectric…), the tool EN-ROADS for energy planning simulation
and related application in projects for local sustainable development in different contexts as appropriate technologies.
Lecturers
Riccardo Mereu
Senior Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano. His research mainly focuses on numerical modeling of energy industrial components and systems and application of sustainable energy technologies with particular attention to Developing Countries.
He has been and his currently technical member and task project manager of different European projects on Sustainable Energy Engineering (Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia), Modern Energy services in refugee camps (Lebanon, Somalia, RCA and Colombia) and Capacity Building in Engineering (Tanzania).
He is currently lecturer of ‘Innovative Technologies for Energy’ (undergraduate course) and ‘Sustainable Development (postgraduate course) at Politecnico di Milano.
Vice-president of Engineering Without Borders – Milan (http://isf.polimi.it/isf/) and responsible of the Energy Group, he has been involved as consultant on ICS -UNIDO training activities (e-learning courses and local intensive training courses) on energy technologies.
He is author of more than 50 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, with 600+ citations, and co-author of book chapters in Springer.