Renewable Energy Sources & Hydro Power Engineering Department was founded in 1921 at Petrograd Polytechnical Institute by prof.A.Morozov. Many graduates of the Department has become famous builders, engineers, scientists, has brought a fame to the home power engineering.

Studying at the Department students receive degrees in the following subjects:

• 1003 - Hydraulic Power Engineering
• 1009 - Nontraditional and Renewable Energy Sources

The style of scientific and educational activity of the Department is centered on individual work with the students and on trainning of the experts capable to be engaged in designing, construction and operation of power objects of various type and structure, to carry out scientific researches on major and urgent directions of modern power engineering connected to the use of renewable energy sources such as rivers, wind, sun, tides, geothermal sources, biomass. Their wide application is based on the development of new principles and technologies of energy transformation, use of perspective materials, research and designing of installations for hydraulic, wind, solar and bioenergy transformation. For solving this tasks students are offered the following specializations:

• economics and marketing of renewable energy sources;
• renewable energy sources and enviromental protection;
• managment and exploitation of power objects;
• physical and mathematical modelling of powermountings which use renewable energy sources;
• design, construction, reconstruction and restoration of hydro power and aquacultural objects;
• power and water supplying of individual consumers.

The international cooperation with universities of Germany, Austria, Finland, Denmark in the field of ecology and power engineering enables the students to have practical trainning abroad.

Successful graduates of the University obtain the degree of Bachelor of Sciences, Engineer, Master of Siences, Doctor of Siences, including degrees which meet international standards.