Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Imagine, design, build and operate machines, equipment and processes to provide a solution to a complex problem of energy production, conversion and transmission by integrating the needs, constraints, context and technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental issues.
• Identify the complex problem to be solved and develop the specifications by integrating the needs, constraints, context and technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental issues.
• Mobilize a structured set of scientific knowledge and skills and specialized techniques to meet, with expertise and adaptability, the missions of the civil engineer in energy engineering.
• Master and appropriately mobilize knowledge, models, methods and techniques related to solid and fluid mechanics, energy exchange, dynamic and vibratory behavior of systems, mechanical manufacturing and production, machine operation, physical phenomena, machines, equipment and processes related to the production, conversion and transmission of energy
• Communicate and exchange information in a structured manner - orally, graphically and in writing, in French and in one or more other languages - at the scientific, cultural, technical and interpersonal levels, adapting to the goal pursued and the audience concerned.
• Argue and convince, both orally and in writing, in front of a client, a colleague, teachers and juries.
• Act as a responsible, open-minded, and critical professional in an autonomous professional development process.
• Demonstrate openness and critical thinking by comparing the technical and non-technical aspects of the problems analyzed and the solutions proposed.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Understand the organization of the energy markets at the wholesale and retail levels, in the EU and worldwide
Be a critical and responsible person aware of the realities of the liberalized energy sector

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Chap. 1: Energy and society (evolution of the energy consumption and its main drivers)
Chap. 2: Basic notions of micro-economy (offer/demand modeling, notion of market equilibrium, theory of the firm, market imperfections)
Chap. 3: Peculiarities of wholesale energy markets (energy markets general characteristics, the rent phenomenon, notions of regulation, externalities)
Chap. 4: Focus on European electricity markets (sizing the electricity generation mix and the missing money problem, energy, reserve, imbalance, capacity remuneration, retail amrkets, emerging market mechanisms)
Seminars by industrial stakeholders. Upon availabilities:Belgian Transmission System Operator for electricity - ELIA , Belgian Federal regulator - CREG, Waloon Distribution System Operator for electricity and Gaz - ORES, Belgian Transmission System Operator for Gaz - FLUXYS)

Prior Experience

Not applicable