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What is RETScreen Expert? Benchmarking, Feasibility, Performance & Portfolio
About this course
This course is an introduction to four capabilities of the RETScreen Expert software: benchmarking, feasibility, performance, and portfolio analysis. Through a series of examples related to energy efficiency for a small office building, the course surveys key steps in understanding clean energy projects, including using benchmarks to gain a first understanding of the energy consumption of the facility, investigating the profitability of proposed clean energy projects, tracking the performance of built projects, and managing a portfolio of facilities.
Learning Objectives
- Become acquainted with the capabilities of RETScreen Expert software
- Understand the main elements of a prefeasibility study
- Learn how to use weather data to remove variability from performance data for a clean energy project.
Course outline
2 modules
1:49 hours
of video lectures
Module 1 • 8 assignments
What is RETScreen Expert? Benchmarking, Feasibility, Performance & Portfolio
Module 1 • 8 assignments
What is RETScreen Expert? Benchmarking, Feasibility, Performance & Portfolio
- RETScreen Expert: What is it? What does it do? (18:44 minutes)
- Feasibility analysis of energy efficiency measures for a small office building (19:29 minutes)
- Rapidly starting a prefeasibility study with the Virtual energy analyzer (20:53 minutes)
- Presentation materials: Gas consumption for performance analysis (.xlsx)
- Performance analysis: how can we make use of monitored data? (09:37 minutes)
- Presentation materials: Weather data for performance analysis (.xlsx)
- Investigating the performance of the building retrofits (21:47 minutes)
- Looking at a portfolio of buildings (19:07 minutes)
Author
Michael M. D. Ross has taught RETScreen courses to thousands of people across Canada, in the United States, and in France, and has assisted RETScreen International in the preparation of much of its e-learning course material. Over the past 15 years, he has held research and consulting positions related to renewable energy and energy efficiency in both Canada and Europe....
