Capstone: Renewable Energy Diagnostics

You've learned how PV works and is sized, why self-consumption drives the value, how shading and orientation hurt yield, what batteries add, and why on-site wind so often disappoints. This capstone sends you round as the renewables engineer, sizing systems, building business cases, and spotting the designs that quietly throw value away. The thread through every case: self-consumed power is worth two-to-four times exported power, so size and operate renewables to the building's own demand. And know when the technology fits: PV beats wind on almost every building.