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.

Includes case studies that provide solutions for future decentralized energy supply problems
Contains fully updated equations, data sections and figures for all energy technologies
Shares a blueprint for the development of self-sustainable Integrated Renewable Communities

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Information

Publisher

Elsevier

Year

2021

ISBN

9780323851398

Edition

Topic

Technology & Engineering

Subtopic

Renewable Power Resources

Index

Technology & Engineering

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Citations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One. What Kind of Energy Does the World Need?
Chapter Two. Restructuring future energy generation and supply
Chapter three. Road map of distributed renewable energy communities
Chapter four. Planning of integrated renewable communities
Chapter Five. The water–energy–food nexus
Chapter Six. Energy basics
Chapter Seven. Solar energy: Technologies and options
Chapter Eight. Wind energy
Chapter Nine. Energy resources, global contribution, and applications
Chapter Ten. Hydropower
Chapter Eleven. Marine energy
Chapter Twelve. Geothermal energy
Chapter Thirteen. Energy storage, smart grids, and electric vehicles
Chapter Fourteen. Current distributed renewable energy in rural and urban communities
Chapter Fifteen. Ownership, citizens participation and economic trends
Chapter Sixteen. The importance of green mobility
Chapter Seventeen. Water desalination, purification, irrigation, and wastewater treatment
Chapter Eighteen. Technologies at the experimental stages
Chapter Nineteen. Drivers for digitalization of energy
Chapter Twenty. Blockchain
Chapter Twenty one. Grid challenges: Integration of distributed renewables with the national grid
Chapter Twenty Two. Marshall plan for Empowering Urban and Rural Communities: Strategies toward poverty and migration reduction
Chapter Twenty three. Our vision for peace via renewables: Power, water and food for all
Appendix One. Glossary
Appendix Two. List of energy abbreviations and acronyms
Appendix Three. Conversion factors
Appendix Four. Inventory of photovoltaic systems for sustainable rural development
Index