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An exciting opportunity to....
Receive guidance on a globally established tool from one of the leading UK trainers in RETScreen
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Improve your ability to make efficient and quick decisions about sustainable energy projects options
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Save time and money at the early stages of your sustainable energy decision process
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Learn the full scope of RETScreen
(a free software decision aid tool)
Please click here for details on delivering this course to groups though our Bespoke Training service. Alternatively you can e mail the trainer, Richard Hellen, for individual enquiries about RETScreen.
In addition to RETScreen, other workshops are available covering topics such as energy efficiency decision making, analysis and decisions based on energy data monitoring and targeting, as well as specialist in-depth workshops on small scale hydro, wind, CHP & district heating, risk & sensitivity analysis in energy project financing and energy from waste.
About this workshop
RETScreen is a highly sophisticated tool capable of evaluating the techical, financial and environmental impact of a wide range of sustainable energy technologies, both individually and in combination. In association with National Energy Foundation, Hermes Energy Services is presenting a one day workshop to give you the skills to use RETScreen to make robust sustainable energy decisions. So, if you understand the principles of renewable energy and energy efficiency, but want to get serious and make investment decisions, RETScreen is ideal for providing robust financial assessments as well as assessing CO2 savings and energy produced/saved.
You will gain hands on experience using RETScreen through a combination of presentation and working through specific cases.
Two renewable energy technologies will be considered in detail and guidance given on other energy technologies.
What you will learn
By the end of the workshop you will have:
- gained skills in assessing and planning sustainable energy projects through examining real life case studies
- gained confidence in your ability to make quantified decision making for sustainable energy options
- discover a means of communication effectively about energy projects with a range of your project stakeholders - from planners to investors
Who should attend
Anyone delivering, commissioning or assessing sustainable energy projects including; Building owners, Energy Unit staff, Architects, Building Managers, Estate Managers and Energy and Environment entrepreneurs.
Those approving Sustainable Energy projects including; Financial investors, Chief Financial Officers, Planners, Building Control Officers, Development Control Officers, Conservation Officers, Building Control Officers, Strategic Development Officers and Sustainability and Regeneration Officers.
Those delivering Sustainable Energy projects such as; Project Managers, Energy Services Companies, Building Developers and Energy Managers.
Delegates pre-requisites
- Familiarity with some of the sustainable energy technologies and a desire to know something of the rest
- A current or future role in delivering, assessing or commissioning sustainable energy projects
- A basic understanding of spreadsheets
- A need to quantify sustainable energy options to allow sound decision making
- You should bring your own laptop into which you will have downloaded and installed RETScreen 4, from the website: http://www.retscreen.net/ang/home.php You are advised to take a few hours to expore RETScreen before the workshop.
About the trainer
Richard Hellen has worked in the energy sector since 1974, starting in nuclear power and moving into small scale Combined Heat and Power, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Richard has used RETScreen to assess the feasibility of many projects including:
- brown field development energy master planning
- wind
- small scale hydro
- biomass
- solar PV
In addition he has provided training in RETScreen to academics, policy makers and energy professionals both in the UK and overseas. Richard is active in the promotion of rational sustainable energy through policy channels and trade associations such as Low Carbon South West, of which he is a founder director.
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