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University of Colorado Boulder

Renewable Energy Technology Fundamentals

Renewable energy is one of the fastest growing industries on the planet, with billions of dollars invested each year to meet international energy sustainability goals. This course will provide you with a solid foundation for understanding and deploying important renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar. In addition, you will come away with a good understanding of important energy storage technologies such as pumped hydro, batteries, and hydrogen. Upon completing the course, you will be conversant with the opportunities and challenges of renewable energy technologies. You will be comfortable participating in debates and making decisions regarding these technologies. And the knowledge you gain will be foundational for further study of renewable power systems, renewable energy projects, and forecasts for the future of renewable energy. We hope you will join us on our journey! This course is the first in a four-course Coursera specialization in Renewable Energy. • Renewable Energy Technology Fundamentals • Renewable Power & Electricity Systems • Renewable Energy Projects • Renewable Energy Futures Course logo image credit: "Wind Turbine" icon courtesy of Vectors Point from the Noun Project.

Status: Physics
Status: Sustainable Technologies
BeginnerCourse13 hours

Featured reviews

NS

Reviewed Mar 2, 2024

An informative and easy-to-understand introduction to many kinds of renewable energy, though it occasionally repeats itself.

SJ

Reviewed Mar 11, 2022

Its really informative and well structured course. The course instructor explains each and every module of course in detail.

JF

Reviewed Jan 11, 2026

It was a very good overview, but some links to videos were not available, and some data was a bit outdated (up to 2018).

PS

Reviewed Sep 20, 2025

The system is not recognizing the correct answer of question nr. 6 on Other Renewable Energy Technologies. I responded correctly and the score is 0.8 not 1. It needs to be corrected.

MP

Reviewed Aug 9, 2021

This course provides fundamentals of renewable energy technology . The supplement reading material is also provide excellent insights in latest development

DB

Reviewed Feb 24, 2023

Comprehensive introduction to Renewable Energy Technology - including storage and transmission. Excellent.

YM

Reviewed Aug 27, 2022

This course provide foundation knowledge for renewable energy technology, simple to follow by video, specific reading and there are many examples

MS

Reviewed Jul 17, 2023

I highly recommend this course! I found this course to be incredibly informative, as it extensively covered various aspects of renewable technologies, their applications, and storage systems.

AA

Reviewed Aug 2, 2023

I learned a lot from this course. This course helps me to imagine thing better and develop great understandings about renewable energy and energy storage process.

RC

Reviewed Jul 9, 2023

The information is quite good, although it needs a bit of an update... the RE world is changing and I believe some of the data of the course needs some update

PN

Reviewed Oct 1, 2022

T​he course is very well-structured. It gives the right fundamentals to understand the current and future scope of the energy technologies.

AA

Reviewed Sep 2, 2021

I really enjoyed this course! The mixed content formats of reading and videos really enhanced my ability to keep connected.

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