<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Sub-theme 3.3. Energy Resources Development and Utilization  </strong></span>

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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Aim </strong></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The aim of this sub-theme is to provide accurate and quantitative information on energy feasibility, potential, efficiency, and synthesis of various energy sources, and characterization and design of cost effective photovoltaic cells that are scalable for commercial purposes.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Description </strong></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The sub-theme focuses on research work to deliver a robust estimate of the temporal and spatial distribution of unutilized potential of renewable energy sources and investigates the impact of energy exploration on the environment. It investigates the physics of photovoltaic cell focusing on efficiency and low cost method of scalability. At lower levels, it also aims at investigating and developing wind turbine that could be used at household level. The sub-theme further explores the possibility of designing energy-efficient inexpensive stoves with locally available raw materials.</span>

<a name="_Toc389157660"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Research Areas</strong></span>

<a name="_Toc389157661"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>3.3.1. Wind energy</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157662"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>3.3.2. Solar energy</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157663"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>3.3.3. Hydropower energy</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157664"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>3.3.4. Geothermal energy</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157665"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>3.3.5. Fossil fuel energy</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157666"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>3.3.6. Bio-energy</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157667"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>3.3.7. Nuclear energy</em></span>

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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sub-theme-3.3-Description.pdf"><u>For the details, click here</u></a></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-Sub-theme-3.3-Priority-research-areas.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2017</u></a></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016-Sub-theme-3.3-Priority-research-areas-1.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2016</u></a></span>