Sustainable Energy Infrastructure (211040-003)
The course will take place in two blocks :
During the first part of the Semester, there will be a series of introductory online lectures after which every student will be assigned a topic including instructions and references. During the semester the students will prepare their topic and we will make feedback meetings (online) on your progress. The second block will be a series of lectures towards the end of the semester in which each student will do a 20 minute presentation on the assigned topic. This presentation will be graded and count as the final exam for the module.
Dates, times and rooms for the lectures will be communicated via email to the students who signed up for the course !
Initial lectures I and II :
Monday 11.5.2026 15.00 - ZOOM link via email
Tuesday 12.5.2026 15.00 - ZOOM link via email
In case you could not participate - backup lecture with recap of most important aspects:
Monday 18.5.2026 17.00 - ZOOM link via email
During July, further discussion ZOOM meetings will be arranged.
Final "mini-symposium" with all talks from participating students :
6th - 9th of July - in person at the TU Chemnitz (exact dates, rooms and times will be communicated via email)
Here is a collection of links to documents that we discussed in the lectures :
David MacKay - Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air
https://www.withouthotair.com/
pdf download :
https://www.withouthotair.com/download.html
Lecture Notes of the Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy:
https://epjwoc.epj.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2020/22/contents/contents.html
Lecture on history of climate change - Dirk Notz
Lecture on sustainable energy - Andrea Contin
Lecture on chemical energy conversion - Alexander Auer
Lecture on chemical energy conversion :
The transition to a sustainable energy economy relies on the availability of key technologies for energy conversion and storage. The development and evolution of these technologies is becoming a central aspect for scientists in research and industry.
The purpose of this module is to outline various scenarios and key reactions, materials and devices for a renewable energy economy. We will discuss the complexity of the transition from fossil to renewable resources and focus on specific aspects in materials science like functional materials and important reactions in catalysis like water splitting and hydrogen evolution.