Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Electrical Industry: Production and Economics
This course illustrate how electricity is produced, exchanged and why. At first it explained what electricity is and how the electricity system has been evolving overtime. Then it focused on the basics of the economic exchange of electricity. Finally it explored the new challenges and perspectives of electricity in the 21st century posed by climate change, and the need to move towards a decarbonized economy.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Fulvio Fontini
Prof. in in the Economics of Energy and Electricity - Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno"
University of Padova
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop your ideas about the challenges posed by climate change, understand your own electricity bill and be informed to make the best money-saving choices about electricity suppliers
- Assess the importance of electricity in modern life
- Describe how electricity is generated and exchanged among the different players active in the electricity supply chain
Syllabus
- Electricity production and exchange
- Electricity system
- Renewable energy sources
- Decarbonisation
Issued on 29th September 2026
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