Clean Energy

Course guarantor:

Martin Maštálka

Lecturer:

Martin Maštálka

Tutor:

Martin Maštálka

Supervisor:

Institute of Public Administration and Regional Studies

Synopsis:

Students acquire an overview of currently available sustainable energy sources. They will be familiar with their main benefits, but also the potential problems in the implementation. The whole problematics will be set in the environment of international sustainable development goals and economic impacts on society.

Requirements:

Completion of the subject with an exam

- Completion of the final test.

Credit fulfillment conditions

- As part of the exercise, students prepare a seminar paper on a given topic.

- Participation in an excursion and an invited lecture on a current topic.

Conditions for passing the exam

A written test containing questions evenly covering the individual lectured topics of the course, including compulsory literature. The test will be solved in the form of 20 open questions. The student will have a limit of 40 minutes to complete the test. For each correct answer, the student gets 5 points. In total, a maximum of 100 points = 100% can be obtained for the subject, with the following distribution of results:

A – 93 - 100 points

B – 92 -85 points

C – 84 -77 points

D – 76 – 69 points

E – 68 – 60 points

F – 59 or less points

The condition for obtaining credit is participation in an excursion, called a lecture, and the delivery of a seminar paper on a given topic.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction, basic concepts, principles of sustainable development

2. Clean energy in the UN and the EU target system

3. Principles of Clean Energy Assessment

4. Hydropower

5. Energy from the sun

6. Wind energy

7. Geothermal energy

8. Nuclear energy

9. Other alternative energy sources

10. Centralized and island systems of energy networks

11. Sustainable energy sources in relation to climate change

12. Economic instruments for the promotion of sustainable energy sources

13. Excursion / participation in the conference

14. Course summary and conclusion

Syllabus of tutorials:

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Study Objective:

The study objective of the course is to introduce students to sustainable energy sources and their involvement in the infrastructure of the city.

Study materials:

EAMES, M. (ed.) (2018). Retrofitting cities for tomorrow's world [online]. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 978-1-

119-00722-7.

FOSTER, V. (2020). Rethinking power sector reform in the developing world [online]. Washington, DC: World Bank

Group. Sustainable Infrastructure Series. ISBN 978-1-4648-1443-3.

ISLAM, J. (2018). Economics of sustainable energy [online]. Hoboken, New Jersey: Scrivener Publishing. ISBN 978-1-

119-52597-4.

Built heritage management: energy & society [online]. [Place of publication not identified]: Emerald Publishing Limited,

©2020. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation; Volume 38, Number 2. ISBN 978-1-83982-721-1.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu	roomDEJ:209 Maštálka M. 12:30–14:00 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: