
Renewable Energy
Physics, Engineering, Environmental Impacts, Economics and Planning
Resources
Description
Key Features
- Covers the underlying physics and engineering of energy sources and conversion processes, including methodologies, models, and analysis
- Provides a better understanding of the scientific basis and current progress in the field
- Requires advanced knowledge of math and physics
- Provides a unique three part organization covering energy sources, conversion processes, and the related planning, environmental impacts, and socio-economic issues on regional and global levels
- New edition presents updated data about renewables market penetration, current insights on climate change, the most recent available technology for renewable energy conversion, transmission and storage, and revised planning scenarios and future outlook
Readership
Research scientists, engineers, project managers, consultants and graduate students involved in Renewable Energy development and implementation
Table of Contents
- 1. Perspectives on Energy Resources
2. Origin of Renewable Energy Flows
3. Individual Renewable Energy Sources
4. The Energy Conversion Processes
5. Energy Transmission and Storage
6. Energy System Planning
7. Socioeconomic Assessment
8. Integrated Approaches
Product details
- No. of pages: 1056
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: June 6, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128045671
- eBook ISBN: 9780128026106
About the Author
Bent Sorensen (Sorensen)

Dr. Sørensen is one of the world’s leading specialists in renewable energy. He has five decades of experience in researching the field, and has published hundreds of monographs, articles in scientific journals, technical reports, and conference contributions. He has received several awards and has been knighted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe of Denmark.
He has worked at universities in Japan, France, Denmark, Australia and the United States (Berkeley and Yale), has been a consultant to governments and international organizations, a lead author in the IPCC climate assessment recipient of several international prizes and honors.