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Distributed Renewable Energies for Off-Grid Communities: Empowering a Sustainable, Competitive, and Secure Twenty-First Century, Second Edition, is a fully revised reference on advances in achieving successful energy transition. Addressing the highly dynamic, complex and multidimensional process of a dominant socio-technical system transforming into another, this up-to-date reference addresses all stages of this complex process with data and figures to demonstrate how to tackle the process of changing a society's energy circumstance. This new edition provides an updated picture of renewables in communities and their use, covering energy concepts, strategies, prospects and combining all aspects to provide a roadmap to self-sustainable development.
Addressing the influence of society on the development of renewable industry, this book provides guidelines with case studies, along with trends and innovative practices regarding renewable energy and their applications with a goal of successfully establishing smooth energy transitions in self-sustainable communities.
Energy Engineering Professionals; Renewable Energy researchers; Transmission and Distribution Grid Operators and Planners; Electrical, Mechanical, Power, Control, Sustainability and Systems Engineers; Energy Economists; Government Regulators and Utility Business Leaders; Researchers and Financers in renewables
1. Scope of the Book
2. Restructuring Future Energy Generation and Supply
3. Road Map of Distributed Renewable Energy Communities
4. Planning of Integrated Renewable Communities
5. Determination of Community Energy and Food Requirements
6. Energy Basics, Resources, Global Contribution and Applications
7. Solar Energy
8. Wind Energy
9. Biomass and Bioenergy
10. Hydropower
11. Marine Energy
12. Geothermal Energy
13. Energy Storage, Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles
14. Current Distributed Renewable Energy for Rural and Urban Communities
15. Ownership, Citizens Participation and Economic Trends
Appendix
1. Glossary
2. Abbreviations and Acronyms
3. Conversion Factors
4. Inventory of PV Systems for Sustainable Rural Development
5. Project “SOLARTECH SUD,” Solar Eco-Village Zarzis - Djerba Tunisia
6. Solar Park Vechelde (Kraftfeld Vechelde GmbH and Co. KG)
7. Solar Laundry, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, India
8. Manual and/or Solar Powered Water Treatment System
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