Those required, in a common way, by the master's degree itself

The subject Energy Sustainability, included in the Master in Circular Engineering of the Carlos III University of Madrid, corresponds to the profile of a professional with a comprehensive vision of energy systems. Technologies, and energy technologies in particular, are not innocuous devices, but rather have a potential environmental and social impact. The course aims to holistically integrate the different aspects of energy technologies and energy management within the framework of a global energy transition that prioritizes the environmental and social sustainability of the planet. The master's studies will broaden the knowledge of its students in the design, optimization and sustainable and efficient management of energy generation, transport, distribution, storage and production systems. In this way, the graduates of the master's degree must be able to design and advise administrations and private entities on the energy policies to be implemented, applying sustainability and global efficiency criteria.

1. Sustainability. - Introduction. General Concepts. Tools - Sustainability: the role of energy 2. Energy Transition - Why and for what? - World Context - European and Spanish Legislative Framework. - Objectives (medium and long term) and roadmap - Energy vectors of the transition for generation, transport, consumption... - Are we heading towards a just energy transition? (energy poverty, models, risks of these models...) 3. Renewable technologies for the energy transition - Photovoltaic - Wind - Storage. Hydrogen. The role of hydrogen in the energy transition - Concentrated sun - Biomass 4. Transport: reality and challenges - Transport in the energy transition - Electrification of road transport - The role of the train - What will happen to marine and air transport? 6. Energy decrease: option or inevitability?

The most relevant training activities in the subject are: * Theoretical classes, in which the basic contents on sustainability, energy technologies, their management and their social and environmental implications will be established. * Practices: two lab practices on - Energy consumption and improvement of energy efficiency in homes - Self-consumption of electrical energy with photovoltaic panels. industrial application. * Realization in group and presentation in class of different works. There will be one hour of individual/group tutoring per week.