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EUREC MASTERS NEWSLETTER

ISSUE 22 – December 2015

Alumni Forum 2015

On behalf of the EUREC Alumni Network (EAN), I would like to extend my thanks to all

attendees of the 7th edition of the EUREC Alumni Forum.

The success of the event

strongly depends on your

participation and that of our

sponsors so we greatly

appreciate your attendance. We

hope that the entire Forum

experience was enjoyable and

that you are motivated to come

back again next year. For those

of you that could not make it to

Brussels this year we hope to see

you in 2016!

We would like to remind you to

join the LinkedIn group and

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to 'like' our Facebook page to keep up to date

with everything EAN related as well as to see

photos from this year’s event.

Congratulations again to the winners of the

Renewable Energy Quiz: Andreas Guenther,

Elma Rocio Cordova, Muhammad Asaad

Keilany, Jorge Lezaca and Bertrand Guillot.

Remember to collect your free ticket to the 8th

EUREC Alumni Forum by contacting the EAN

when next year event comes around.

Last but not least, we are always keen for new

volunteers to become involved with the EAN

to help out with the organisation and

coordination of various EAN activities. In

particular, the Forum is largely organised by

recent graduates and current students so we are

especially looking to this year’s new batch of

students! Of course we welcome volunteers

from all past years too! If you are interested

please get in touch by sending an e-mail

to eurec.alumni@gmail.com .

I wish you all the best and look forward to seeing you next year!

Rory Quinn

On behalf of the EUREC Alumni Network

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European Master in Sustainable

Energy System Management

February 1st: Classes start at the

System Integration and Optimisation

specialisation

February 15th: Classes start at the

Sustainable Energy Management

specialisation

CONTENT

Edito: Alumni Forum 2015

Best projects 2014 in Oldenburg: Gourab Banerjee and Zeyad Yasser

Presentation Days 2015

Where are they now? Georges Kanaan and Jesus Enrique Cueva Lomas

Job ads

Events

o Starting Day 2015

o KnowRES recent events

o Graduation of the first class of Engineering Degree in Renewable Energy Engineering

at the engineering School of Eibar

o 4th International DHC+ Student Awards

o List of upcoming events

MASTERS AGENDA

Academic Year 2016/2017

January 15th: Opening of the application process for both Masters

European Master in Renewable Energy

Academic Year 2014/2015 December 15th and 16th

Presentation Days in Brussels

Academic Year 2015/2016 December 15th and 16th: Presentation Days in

Brussels

January 18th: Classes start at the PV

specialisation

February 2nd: Classes start at the Sustainable

Fuel Systems specialisation

February 8th : Classes start at the Wind, Grid

and Solar Thermal integration specialisations

February 15th: Classes start at the Ocean

specialisation

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BEST PROJECTS THESIS 2014: Oldenburg University

Gourab Banerjee: Investigation of trends and challenges for earth fault

protection in compensated grids

Motivation

Compensated grids are commonly used in Germany and Middle-Europe for

medium and high voltages. But these distribution grids are challenged by a

growing share of underground cables and grid extensions to integrate renewables.

There are majorly 2 types of changes in the distribution and sub-transmission networks i.e.

a) Replacement of overhead line with underground cable (in 110kV and 20kV level),

b) Grid extension for the integration of significant distributed generation.

Amongst various physical and technical challenges, one major technical issue for underground

cable is the significant capacitance value which increases the total capacitive earth fault current in

the network.

To avoid the costly splitting of grid areas, when safety limits are crossed, and to assign

compensation costs directly to the responsible installation the approach of decentralised

compensation was followed in this research.

Investigation and Results

It was started with the standard European benchmark network of medium voltage scheme i.e.

110kV/20kV with the given design data and load consumption scenario and it was designed with

the help of PowerFactory DIgSILENT simulation software. The load flow was verified and then

the Petersen coil was designed at every stage so that the capacitive earth fault current in single line

to ground fault condition can be compensated to a minimum. The different results achieved in

different study case is shown in Table – I.

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Observation

There is a significant decrease of zero

sequence resistance values from 120 mm2 to

500 mm2 which increases the value of

residual current with the increase of cable

length.

Cable capacitance increases with both the

increase of cable length and cable cross-

section which increases capacitive earth fault

current.

Conclusion

The shunt capacitance is quite proportional for

long or short cable whereas the major limitation

is with series impedance i.e. series resistance and inductance of the long cable.

The fault current compensation is limited wide extended grids using centralized compensation.

Decentralized compensation or network splitting could be required depending on the degree of

complexity and network reinforcement.

With the decentralized compensation method, the technical needs and costs can be assigned

directly to the responsible installation.

Acknowledgement

The master thesis was carried out working with Fraunhofer IWES. The work was partly supported

by the research project “NEDO” (FKZ 0325688) in the frame of the German research initiative

“Stromnetze”. The author is solely responsible for the content of this publication.

For detailed knowledge on this article, kindly refer “International ETG Congress 2015”

conference proceeding “Increasing the Limits of Grid Extension for Renewable Integration

through Decentralized Compensation” by G. Banerjee and W. Heckmann.

Zeyad Yasser: Short-Term Cloud Motion Forecasting System Using

Low Cost Fisheye Camera to Improve the Operation of CSP Plants.

Solar energy is expected to contribute a major share of the future global

energy supply. However, concentrated solar power (CSP) plants face

certain challenges related to the variable nature of solar resource and the

presence of clouds. Since clouds are the greatest factor involved in solar

radiation attenuation, it necessary to forecast clouds' motion to improve

CSP plants management and operation strategies.

Not only forecasting is essential for the operation but also for the security of CSP power plant’s

components. The main focus of my thesis is to develop a short-term cloud motion forecasting

system based on low cost fisheye camera.

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The thesis work is a part of the CSP-FoSyS project, which is a R&D (research and development)

project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). Where TSK Flagsol GmbH (thesis host

organization) together with the German Aerospace center (DLR) cooperate in order to develop a

commercial product for weather and energy production forecast for CSP power plants. Project

description on the European Space Agency's website. The system is foreseen to be implemented at

“La Africana” CSP plant, which is a 50 MW parabolic trough power plant with 7.5 hours of

storage, located in Cordoba, Spain.

The general lay-out of the cloud motion forecast system

is based on the implementation of four low cost fisheye

cameras (commercial surveillance camera). Each camera

is located at one of the corners of the solar field, as

shown in figure 1.

Consecutives coloured images are captured by the fish

eye camera, the images are processed by a code

developed in MATLAB. Clouds are detected based on

the fundamental difference in scattering by clouds versus

clear sky. Then the clouds motion is tracked by applying

optical flow algorithm as shown in figure 2, to estimate

the clouds motion vectors which represent the clouds'

direction and velocity. The cloud motion is forecasted by extrapolating the estimated cloud

motion vectors.

During my thesis internship I managed to develop a different method for creating the forecasted

cloud map based on multiple mean vectors, which yields more accurate motion estimation and

outperforms the most commonly used method stated in the literature, which is based on global

vector.

Currently I am working as a R&D engineer at TSK Flagsol GmbH, where the first version of the

system is foreseen to be ready in 2016. Cloud motion forecasting systems will become a powerful

tool for improving the operation of CSP plants, as it provides valuable information of the

forecasted cloud's location.

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PRESENTATION DAYS 2015

On 15 and 16 December, 2014/2015 students will come to Brussels to present their project at the

Hotel Bloom. It will be followed by a cocktail reception on December 16th, at 17.30. If you want

to attend the presentations or join us for the cocktail, please send an email to Nathalie.

You can attend presentations that are not marked as confidential in the detailed agenda below:

15 December - Room 2

Time Name Project Title Jury (core/spe/third univ)

09:30 Amr Kamal Design of a Multi-Stage Fluidized Bed Heat

Recovery System for Themis Solar Tower

OB ST EDM

10:00 Jorge Enrique

Lezaca Galeano

Study of an extended correction algorithm for

Rotating Shadowband Irradiometers (RSI)

based on simultaneous thermal GHI

measurements CONFIDENTIAL

OB ST EDM

10:30 Aaron Podmore Toward low-cost solar heat for industrial

processes (SHIP): Prototype concentrator

characterisation

OB ST EDM

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 Tony Gebrayel Integration of filler materials in a one-tank

thermal storage system

EDM ST ZARA

12:00 Aloïs Salmon Influence of the atmosphere composition on

the solar resource

EDM ST ZARA

12:30 Maxime Jal Hybridisation of Concentrating Solar Power

Plants – Economic and Technical Assessment

Case Study for a Retrofit of a Biomass Facility

in Brazil

EDM ST ZARA

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 Francisco Jose

Santos Laureiro

STERG receiver LBO ST EDM

14:30 Fady Elsayed Suitability of different rock types for high

temperature thermal storage

LBO ST EDM

15:00 Maria Cerda Implementation and field test campaign for

pointing mechanisms of Heliostats used in CSP

tower-type plants CONFIDENTIAL

LBO ST EDM

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 Mehmet Bugra

Donmez

Short Term Energy Production Prediction on

Wind Turbine with Artificial

Neural Network Approach

LBO W HZ

16:30 Rafael Alvarez Investigating the use of additive manufacturing

to produce scale models for testing wind

turbine gearbox condition monitoring

techniques

LBO W HZ

17.00 Bereket

Tesfayohanne

Haile

Analysis of ventilated BIPVT air roof system HZ PV LBO

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15 December - Room 5

Time Name Project Title Jury (core/spe/third univ)

09:30 Juan Manuel

Espeche

Analysis of PV systems impact integrated to the

medium voltage grid

HZ GI LBO

10:00 Cesar Cuevas Short-term irradiance forecasts for PV plants,

based on satellite and sky imager retrievals: Case

study for the region of Jülich, Germany.

HZ GI LBO

10:30 Constantinos

Zervos

Cost effective optimization of energy for a hybrid

wind and pumped storage plant based on the

islanded grid of Crete.

HZ GI LBO

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 Anirudh Somnath Verification of Power Curve Working Group tool

for IEC 61400-12-1 (CDV)

HZ W GI

12:00 Rory Quinn An investigation into the effect of low induction

rotor (LIR) wind turbines on the levelised cost of

electricity (LCOE) for a 1GW offshore wind farm

HZ W GI

12:30 Horea Constantin

Giurgiu

Performance assessment of the LiDAR systems HZ W GI

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 Vinayak Bhat Assessment of Wind regime and Long Term

Energy Production of Wind Farms

CONFIDENTIAL + SKYPE

OB W PV

14:30 Jorge Steiner Analysis of the effect of wind turbine yaw

misalignment on the turbine wake path by lidar

wake tracking.

OB W PV

15:00 Dishant Mishra Impact Assessment of Renewable Purchase

Obligation (RPO) and allied policies on cost

scenario and recovery in Indian Wind Energy

Market SKYPE

OB W PV

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 Hassan Raza Recommendations for effective PV development

in Pakistan by analyzing existing policy

mechanisms and PV market challenges in

Pakistan

OB PV ZARA

16:30 Karim Habashy Development and Optimization of the Electrodes

and the Carrier Injection & Blocking Layers in

Perovskite based Solar Cells

OB PV ZARA

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16 December - Room 2

Time Name Project Title Jury (core/spe/third univ)

09:30 Felipe Gonzalez Feasibility study for the development of

renewable Energies in Tunja and San Andres

Island (Colombia) CONFIDENTIAL +

SKYPE

ZARA ST OE

10:00 Omar Mohamed Measurements of Two-Phase Flow Patterns in a

Linear Fresnel Collector Direct Steam Generation

with a Wire Mesh Sensor

ZARA ST OE

10:30 Damian Ponce Export limitation systems for the UK ZARA PV OE

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 François Fontanier Braking function for the CorPower Wave Energy

Converter in the linear damping configuration on

the 1:3.2 scale device

EDM OE OB

12:00 Clément Massenat Floating Offshore Wind Pilot Farm Development

CONFIDENTIAL

EDM OE OB

12:30 Matthieu Pettinotti A parameter mapping investigation for an

Oscillating Wave Surge Converter

CONFIDENTIAL

EDM OE OB

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 Meike Kühnel Energy Forecast for Mobile Photovoltaic Systems OB GI HZ

14:30 Oscar Camacho Techno-economic analysis on the effect of

different control strategies for residential PV

storage systems on a distribution grid.

OB GI HZ

15:00 Gayathri Prakash Investigation of a condition-monitoring approach

for wind turbine power converters based on

insulation resistance measurements

CONFIDENTIAL

OB GI HZ

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 Marie Péray A contribution to the EMODNET Medsea

Checkpoint Project: Development of a quality

assessment methodology and construction of a

database for the wind farming siting challenge

ZARA OE EDM

16:30 Mario Arranz Electricity Supply for the Lighting of a Tunnel in

Chile using Photovoltaic Panels with a Battery

Storage System

ZARA OE EDM

17:00 Stephane Belly Laboratory test, modelling and simulation of a

small wind turbine blade with Finite Element

Method

ZARA W EDM

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16 December - Room 5

Time Name Project Title Jury (core/spe/third univ)

09:30 Franck Pellecchia Development of numerical tools for

aerodynamic validation of wind turbine

models and analysis of 5MW and 8MW

turbines behaviour CONFIDENTIAL

EDM W HZ

10:00 Paul Romieu Adding intermittent renewable sources in

French Guiana beyond 30% of insertion rate

EDM PV HZ

10:30 Gustavo Izaguirre Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and

Forecast Data Performance Assessment for

distributed photovoltaic generation connected

to a secondary distribution system within the

Nice Grid Project

EDM GI HZ

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 Marius Constantin Numerical modelling of wake losses within

and between offshore wind farms

LBO GI W

12:00 Oluwatobi

Babatunde

Assessing the impact of CFD terrain

corrections on lidar data at 1-second

resolution

LBO GI W

12:30 Faizan Khattak Techno-Economical analysis of Grid

Connected Household PV System with

Batteries

LBO GI W

13:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 Robert Monteith Feasibility Study for the Implementation of a

100% Renewable Electrical Grid for the

Island of Culebra, Puerto Rico

LBO OE ST

14:30 Daniel Petcovic Efficiency profiling, of differing seal and

piston combinations, in relation to the

WaveSpring phase control of a point

absorber type Wave Energy Converter

LBO OE ST

15:00 Karthik Yenduru Preliminary Design of a SrCO3/SrO Solar

Thermochemical Energy Storage Subsystem

LBO ST OE

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 Miguel Mananes Structural/Condition monitoring strategy for

wind turbine foundations of East Anglia One

offshore wind farm

HZ W LBO

16:30 Benjamin Rowlinson Wind Turbine Standstill Instability Analysis OB W LBO

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Georges Kanaan, EUREC Master 2012/2013

Choosing the EUREC Master was clear to me as soon as I heard about it. At that time, I was

seeking a complementary educational degree which would allow me to invest in a career path that

our future and the future of our children urge for. Renewable energy is essential to our life on

earth.

The EUREC Master Degree is recognized within the European Union and gives access to a high-

quality education. I spent my first semester studying in Mines-ParisTech, one of the top ranked

“Grandes Ecoles” in France, and the second semester in Kassel University, in Germany.

On the third semester, I moved to Marburg within Germany, to pursue an internship in

photovoltaic solar energy by Wagner&Co Solartechnik GmbH, to which I first found interest on a

visit to the company during the second semester. Working in the export team allowed me to

develop an experience in the project development of worldwide solar PV projects. From

dimensioning, on-site measurements, technical feasibility studies and planning, to exchange with

manufacturers and clients, technical support and quotations. This internship allowed me to

develop my knowledge of the German language, which was essential for clients’ contact, but as

well, to use English, French and Arabic as the projects I worked on were in 20 different countries.

In March 2014, I started my first employment as a Research Engineer in the French Institute of

Solar Energy, a subsidiary of the Commission of Atomic Energy. This institute does not focus on

solar energy only as the name says, but on wind energy, ocean energy and electrical mobility as

well.

The research is mainly done for industrial

projects, which makes the core of the work

be based on innovative renewable energy

project ideas. I personally worked in the

electrical storage laboratory, on lithium ion

battery integration to renewable energy

systems.

On one hand, electrical storage has become

a necessity for our daily transport, since it

contributes to the replacement of

conventional fuel use with a zero emission

energy source. On the other hand, electricity provided by solar plants and wind farms has often

become subject to disconnection from the grid to ensure stability within the grid. In order to

balance production and demand, over-produced energy can be stored within battery packs for later

use.

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As part of a multidisciplinary team, I developed energy management systems for such

applications, managed tests on battery products and assisted to whole new world of projects.

Team work has also resulted in three patent submissions.

The first one is an innovative battery charge method, which allows a better control of battery life

and charge in cold weather. As many European countries are known for their cold weather,

charging a battery at low temperature weather conditions has a bad effect on its health. With a

couple of colleagues of mine, we tested different methods of battery charge under such conditions

and proposed a method which results were most effective that we had to patent the idea, lunch it

in a conference and will soon be publishing an article about it.

The second patent is an optimized method for energy recovery in solar photovoltaic systems

including battery storage. We find it most useful to first implement this method and test it on

street lamps and house window shades which use solar energy. As for future applications, it can

also be very useful in electric vehicles and electric airplanes.

The third patent is an energy management system that is to be applied on the first patent in

intermittent charge cases of photovoltaic systems and wind turbines.

Interesting enough to mention as well is my

participation in solar races. In the French

Institute of Solar Energy, we had two solar

racing models. Outside of the working hours, I

lead a team of young interns and engineers in

order to develop those vehicles, maintain them

and participate in solar races. We took place in

races within France and in Morocco. Lately, we

finished first in 'Chartres Solar Cup 2015' and

third in 'The Moroccan Solar Challenge 2015'.

Together with a PhD Student colleague of mine,

we have started an organisation called EM-Project (EM stands for Electric Mobility). Our goal is

to contribute to the development of the future mobility by globally re-thinking the way people

move and travel, by initiating young children to the importance of electric mobility and the

protection of our environment, and by developing a new electric car concept using advanced

technology, so that we see it participate in worldwide solar races and make it to the World Solar

Challenge in Australia.

For us, it is a big challenge, but fortunately we were able to launch the project rapidly as we

acquired partnership with four universities in the area. This has been allowing students from

different educational areas to contribute to the project and dedicate some of their most precious

education moments, internships and final projects, in the development of the future mobility.

And the adventure continues…

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Jesus Enrique Cueva Lomas, EUREC Master 2012/2013

It’s been almost 2 years since I finished EUREC’s European Master in

Renewable Energy and I can said that from that time to now, I haven’t

regretted the decision I took. During the last semester of EUREC’s

programme, I did an internship in an African research centre, Institut

International d'Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement (2iE) in

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; place where I worked as a research engineer,

studying several materials for thermal energy storage in a Concentrated

Solar Power (CSP) Plant that they were building at that time.

Because of my previous formation as Environmental Engineer, I was concerned about the

environmental impacts that my proposals could generate and depending on that, what could be a

sustainable and inclusive solution for the project.

It was because some lectures that I had in my specialisation (Solar thermal) with Professors

Xavier Py and Quentin Falcoz, that I started thinking about the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of

renewable energy projects as a way to determine the environmental impacts that some renewable

technologies could generate. It was noted from the professors that almost none research has been

made on the topic due to the fact that some of the projects haven’t reached their end of life.

After my master studies, I returned to my homeland, Guadalajara, Mexico; in which I found a

position as a research fellow in a prestigious University (Western Institute of Technology and

Higher Education - ITESO) and also, started working with an N.G.O. that works with sustainable

development projects in rural/vulnerable communities in Mexico.

As part of my work in the university, I’m now working on a “Material Library” (called in Spanish

“materioteca”) in which we assess, through a LCA studies of different materials, some of the

environmental footprints1 that a material generates from the raw material extraction to the final

disposition. Depending on what results suggest, we advise companies to adopt some measures to

reduce their environmental impact thorough the implementation of better production practices or

integration of cleaner technologies on the industry.

ITESO’s Materioteca

1 Environmental footprints are mainly related to specific impacts determined by different methods developed by the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Leiden University and The Stockholm Resilience Center.

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On the other hand, we also work, as part of a cooperation between the university and the N.G.O.,

with rural development projects in Mexican coast. Those projects include the creation of inclusive

sustainable development models that incorporate the adoption of some renewables (mainly low

temperature solar thermal) as a way to solve specific necessities of the people who lives on those

places (most of them live in extreme poverty).

Rural community of Jose Maria Morelos, Tomatlan, Mexico.

Thanks to the EUREC Master, I found that renewables can be applied on several places and for

any kind of people, as a way to reduce poverty and inequity. I didn’t just learned how to develop

technologies during the time that I studied the master (2012-2013) but also found that there are

lots of opportunities in the renewable industry, and if we really want to recognise them as a part of

a sustainable world, we must first realise that they have an impact not only on the environment but

among the people who will need them as a way to improve their life quality.

JOB ADS

New offer in the Job section of the Master website

Alumni and companies are warmly encouraged to publish job ads in the EUREC Master website:

please send the offer via email to Nathalie Richet.

PhD scholarship

Renewable Energy Engineer (solar CSP)

Solar PV Internship

Fellow – Solar Module Innovation

Construction Manager for wind farms

Internship opportunity in Belgium

Project Engineer (Wind) France

Solar PV Engineer India

Two job offers in Paris

Junior Project Manager

Renewable Energy Engineer (solar PV)

Solar PV Engineer

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EVENTS

Starting Day 2015

The EUREC Masters Starting Day was held

at the Hotel Bloom in Brussels on 1st

October. EUREC students received

information on EUREC and its role in the

Masters. Students had also the opportunity to

meet professors from the specialisations,

who presented their courses and replied to

their questions.

The EUREC Awards Ceremony took place

during the day. All EUREC Awards winners

came to present their projects and receive the

Awards. More information on the EUREC Awards 2015 winners and the respective projects is

available here.

The event concluded on a cocktail reception.

KnowRES recent events

Since last September, the Knowledge Centre for Renewable Energy Jobs organised 4 experts

meetings in major European conferences.

The experts meeting on the PV job market was organised during the 31st EUPVSEC in Hamburg.

The KnowRES report on the PV most

wanted profiles can be found on the

KnowRES website here:

http://www.knowres-jobs.eu/en/Jobs-

and-skills/Jobs-barometer/

In October, two other meetings were

held: one on the ocean energy sector,

and one on the small hydropower job

market. They were held respectively

during the Ocean Energy Europe

Conference 2015 in Dublin and during Hydro 2015 in Bordeaux. Sectoral reports on ocean and

small hydropower will soon be available on the KnowRES website. During the Energy

Convention 2015 in Groningen, which theme was ‘Energy revolution’, KnowRES organised an

experts meeting on transferability of skills to the Renewable Energy sector.

Bernard Delaney, HR Manager, Open Hydro, at OEE 2015

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During these experts meeting, KnowRES presents the results of the survey

research led in the sector, and experts from the industry and academia share

their perspectives on the status of the job market as well as on training

possibilities and future needs.

Students and job candidates also have the possibility to meet green jobs

recruiters to benefit from career tips and advice. During these 4 experts

meetings, 35 jobs candidates had individual interviews with recruiters.

If you want to participate to the KnowRES project, you can register in the

KnowRES database here:

http://www.knowres-jobs.eu/en/Candidates-and-Companies/Candidates-registration/

For more information on KnowRES, please contact Nathalie Richet.

Graduation of the first class of Engineering Degree in Renewable Energy

Engineering at the engineering School of Eibar

On Thursday, September 17th, at 18.00, in the Auditorium of the Educational Complex of Eibar,

the Industrial Engineering School of Eibar, held its ceremony to hand over the diplomas to the

students entitled during the 2014/2015 course. In this act, the first class belonging to the

Renewable Energy Engineering Grade was graduated. This degree is only taught in the state and

is highly respected.

The event was presided by the rector of the UPV/EHU, Iñaki Goirizelaia, the Counsellor of

Education, Linguistic Policy and Culture of the Basque Government, Cristina Uriarte, the mayor

of Eibar, Miguel de los Toyos, the director of the Engineering School of Eibar, Jose Ignacio San

Martin and the Dean of the College of Experts and Industrial Engineers of Gipuzkoa, Santiago

Berasain.

This Degree in Engineering Renewable Energy consists of four academic years (240 ECTS). In

the curriculum of this degree, the students have been trained for two courses in common to the

Energy Convention in Groningen, NL

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Industrial Engineering disciplines. Furthermore, considering technologies for renewable energies,

they have been taught in Bioenergy, Wind Energy, Hydro Energy, Solar Photovoltaic, Geothermal

and Solar Thermal, Automatic Regulation and Control Automation Systems Energy Conditioning

Electric Power, Instrumentation, Monitoring and Communications Energy Systems, Renewable

Energy Electrical Installations, Electronic Power Conversion Systems, Energy Efficiency, Project

Management, Solar Thermal Energy, Marine Energy, Electric Vehicles, etc.

Full data about this degree, in case additional information is needed, are available on the website

of the School.

4th International DHC+ Student Awards

You still have 2 months to apply for the

DHC+ Student Awards 2016!

The deadline is 20 January 2016.

The Awards are presented in recognition of students' outstanding contribution to the development,

growth and improved efficiency of District Heating and Cooling on a local, national or

international level.

Students who undertake research in the field of District Heating and Cooling, including

technological, environmental, social and legal aspects, can submit their research papers and try to

win the following prizes:

The top three applicants are invited to present their findings at the Euroheat & Power

Annual Conference held in conjunction with the 22. International trade fair and Congress

for Heating, Cooling and CHP (19-21 April 2016, Messe Frankfurt/Main, Germany)

Additionally, they are entitled to a publication in the International EuroHeat & Power

magazine

The first place winner receives a research contribution of EUR 1000!

Who can participate?

The competition is open to all students registered in an accredited institution of higher education

and pursuing Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree. See Awards eligibility and assessment criteria.

How to apply?

It's easy! Just click here to start the application process. You will have to answer a couple of

questions and upload your research paper. Note that you can always resume your partial

application. Papers are only accepted in English. No more than 8 pages allowed.

Any questions? Please contact DHC+.

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Upcoming events

Title RE sector Date Place Conference Website

SESyM Steering

Committee meeting

All 14

December

Brussels,

Belgium

European Master in

Renewable Energy

Presentation Days 2015

All 15-16

December

Brussels,

Belgium

www.master.eurec.be

European Master in

Renewable Energy Steering

Committee meeting

All 1-2

February

Newcastle, UK

Young researchers

conference

Energy

efficiency

and biomass

24-25

February

Wels, Austria http://www.wsed.at/en/programm

e/young-researchers-conference-

energy-efficiency-biomass/

GeoTHERM Geothermal 25-26

February

Offenburg,

Germany

http://www.geotherm-

offenburg.de/fr/geotherm_salon_c

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