TITLE: TRANSITION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
PUBLISHER: WILEY LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/ZGU46q RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2014.05.27
ISBN: 9783527332397 STORE DATE: 2013
SAVED.MONEY: 246 EURO DISKCOUNT: 04 x 05MB
AUTHOR: DETLEF STOLTEN, VIKTOR SCHERER

BOOK

In the wake of global climate change and increasing geopolitical
instability of oil supply an accelerated transition to renewable
energy system gets increasingly important, if not
unavoidable

This book encompasses reports of select energy strategies as well
as in-depth technical information of the already or potentially
involved technologies. On the one hand, it compiles the
description of technologies that already proved to be game
changers of the energy supply in some countries, i.e. solar
wind, biomass and hydro power, with a strong focus on data, facts
and figures that are needed to design a renewable energy system
for a region or a country. On the other hand, this book compiles
many more technologies that bear the potential to become game
changes in some regions or countries, like maritime power
technologies or geothermal energy. The focus on the whole energy
system involves particular consideration of storage technologies
for the fluctuating renewable energy input as well as an overview
on energy transportation as electrical or chemical energy. Also
the end-use of the renewable energy is considered if the energy
system is affected, like in automotive transportation via battery
or fuel cell vehicles

Postulating climate change as a major driver for renewable
energies, the articles of the book are written assuming the
time-line of 2050 for a major CO2 reduction in order to fulfill
the UN global warming goal of 2 C. Hence, technologies that have
a potential to leave the research stage by 2030 are considered
since further ten years are required for industrial development
and market penetration each. Transition to Renewable Energy
Systems provides specific insights for energy engineers, process
engineers, chemists, and physicists, as well as a sufficiently
broad scope to be able to understand the challenges
opportunities and implications of a transition to renewable
energy systems so that strategies can be cast