Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Latest Advances in Production, Storage, and Integration Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies Series

Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy, Volume One in the Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies series, looks at the production performance of renewable energy sources and emerging production processes. Chapters cover some of the most dynamic developments, best practices, and future concepts in solar energy systems, energy storage, geothermal energy, bioenergy, wind energy, fuel cells, and hydrogen production. The book also includes recent regulations and worldwide policies. By reviewing these state-of-art advances, this book provides readers with an up-to-date source on renewable energy grid integration and its importance in aiding the energy transition. This is a valuable resource for graduates, researchers, professors, and industry professionals involved in the renewable energy sector, as well as advanced engineering courses dealing with renewable energy, sources, thermal and electrical energy production, and sustainability.

1. Recent Developments in Optical Materials for Concentrating Solar Power Plant 2. Photovoltaic driven compression cooling systems 3. New Concept of a Hybrid Renewable Solution for Urban Environment: Electricity during Daytime and Cooling Water during Nighttime 4. Utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for advanced simultaneous biofuel and biomaterials production 5. Challenges of hydrogen production from biomass gasification 6. Intelligent fault diagnosis scheme for converter in wind turbine systems 7. Closed-loop geothermal systems, a way to harness geothermal energy 8. Hydropower in the European Union: state-of-the art, future opportunities and main issues within the current social, energy, geopolitical and climate situation 9. Inorganic microencapsulated phase change materials for renewable energy technologies 10. A Novel Hybrid Data-Driven Aging Prediction Method for Fuel Cells Based on Data Characteristic Analysis 11. Methods and technologies for managing synchronization of MicroGrid with external networks 12. Smart grids in the renewable energy community era: New markets and the role of information 13. Energy, economic, and environmental analysis of energy efficiency and building policies in Southern Europe. Envelope renovation and renewable energy source integration 14. A GIS-based procedure to assess the coupled implementation of photovoltaic panels and green roofs for improved energy efficiency

• Includes the advantages and disadvantages of key advances in renewable technologies
• Contributed to by global experts, with a focus on principles and challenges of renewable energy production and distribution
• Emphasizes the importance of sustainability, policy, and regulation in relation to successful and achievable implementation