The course gives an overview on conventional (electric) power technology:

• development and status of energy consumption and resources; its limitations and consequences
• physical basics of mechanical – electrical energy conversion
• types of electric machines: DC separately excited, parallel and series wound; asynchronous; synchronous, special forms like AC machines, linear drives, electronically commutated machines: their construction, function, characteristics and applications
• structure and function of the electric power grid and its components
• electric power generation by means of thermal power plants and their thermodynamical fundamentals: entropy, Carnot -, (Joule) Brayton - and (Clausius) Rankine cycle
• nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion technology
• electric power generation from renewable sources: hydro and wind power, photovoltaics, further technologies in the field of renewables