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Course curriculum

    1. How to Use our Learning Platform

    2. Introduction

    3. Who are we ?

    1. How to use this module

    2. What we shall cover in this module

    3. A message from your instructor

    1. An introduction to this module

    2. What is Renewable Energy?

    3. Why do we need Renewable Energy?

    4. What Proportion of our Energy is Renewable?

    5. Iceland... The exception

    6. Chapter 1 - Quiz

    1. Past and present

    2. Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution

    3. Aims of renewable energy

    4. Chapter 2 - Quiz

    1. Introduction

    2. Hydroelectric energy

    3. Solar and Wind Energy

    4. Tidal and Wave Energy

    5. What about Nuclear Energy?

    6. Summary of Basic Renewable Energy

    7. Issues and Complexities of Existing Energy Generation

    8. Chapter 3 - Quiz

    1. Introduction

    2. Wind Energy

    3. Offshore Wind Energy

    4. Floating Offshore Wind Energy

    5. Offshore Wind Development

    6. The Spread of Offshore Wind Energy

    7. The Power of Water

    8. Tidal Energy

    9. Open Water Tidal Turbines

    10. Tidal Turbines for Embayed Locations

    11. Solar Energy

    12. Wave Energy

    13. Ocean Thermal Energy

    14. Marine geothermal energy

    15. Chapter 4 - Quiz

About this course

  • 43 lessons

Instructor(s)

Senior Instructor, RECOA Chris Weaver

Chris Weaver has more than 40 years of seagoing experience, beginning as a marine science student aboard a research vessel in the mid-1970s. His early career included serving in the British Royal Navy as a seaman officer, later specialising as a hydrographic surveyor. He then worked on subsea projects for Shell, BP, Total, ENI, and other smaller oil and gas operators before becoming a shipboard project manager for Alcatel Submarine Networks. Between 2006 and 2016, Chris was involved in various West African oil field projects, managing offshore construction and maintenance work in Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, and Ghana during the winter, and power cable installation at various European offshore wind farms during the summer months. Chris became involved in training in 2014 when he designed the Renewables Offshore Client Representative course and presented it as classroom training in the UK over the following four years. He has a long association with Martin Schnoor Warming, founder of the Renewable Construction Academy, and they have collaborated on various renewable projects since 2010.