Renewable energy systems are playing an important role in the current
discourse on energy security and sustainability. Scientific, engineering
and economic solutions are adopted, and their is a constant effort to
understand mechanisms and options to allow a faster penetration of
renewable systems in the current energy mix and energy market.
Readers of this book will have access to information, engineering design
and economic solutions for harvesting local and regional energy
potential by means of solar, wind, hydro resources.
It will enable graduate students, researchers, promoters of sustainable
energy technologies, consulting engineering experts, knowledgeable
public to understand the solutions, methods, techniques suitable for
different phases of design and implementation of a large selection of
renewable energy technologies, and to identify their sustainability in
application and policy.