Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, 2nd Edition

For the Movers, Shakers, and Policy Makers in Energy Engineering and Related Industries

The latest version of a bestselling reference, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, Second Edition covers the foremost trends and technologies in energy engineering today. This new edition contains the latest material on energy planning and policy, with a focus on renewable and sustainable energy sources. It also examines nuclear energy and its place in future energy systems, includes a chapter on natural gas, and provides extensive coverage of energy storage for numerous forms of energy generation. The text also provides energy supply, demand, and pricing factor projections for the future.

Explore the Future of Global Energy

The authors address problems that industry now faces, including the limited availability of conventional energy resources such as oil, natural gas, and coal, and considers renewable energies such as wind power, solar energy, and biomass. They also illustrate the economics of energy efficiency, discuss the financial energy policies of various countries, consider the role of energy conservation in energy strategies, and examine the future of renewable energy technologies to build a sustainable energy system.

This book is divided into five sections, providing a comprehensive look at renewable energy technologies and systems:

• Global Energy Systems, Policy, and Economics
• Energy Generation through 2025
• Energy Infrastructure and Storage
• Renewable Technologies
• Biomass Energy Systems

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, Second Edition focuses on the successful promotion of a sustainable energy supply for the future, and offers new and relevant information providing a clear reference to sustainable-development goals.

Preface

Part I : Global Energy Systems, Policy, and Economics
Chapter 1 : Global Energy Systems
Chapter 2 : Sound Finance Policies for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Chapter 3 : State and Federal Policies for Renewable Energy
Chapter 4 : Strategies and Instruments for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Internationally, in Europe, and in Germany
Chapter 5 : Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Policies in China
Chapter 6 : Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in India
Chapter 7 : Renewable Energy Policies in Brazil: Bioenergy, Photovoltaic Generation, and Transportation
Chapter 8 : Energy in Israel: A Case for Renewables
Chapter 9 : Renewable Energy in Australia
Chapter 10 : Japan’s Post-Fukushima Energy Policy
Chapter 11 : Policies for Distributed Energy Generation
Chapter 12 : Economics Methods
Chapter 13 : Environmental Impacts and Costs of Energy

Part II : Energy Generation Through 2025
Chapter 14 : Distributed Generation Technologies through 2025
Chapter 15 : Demand-Side Management
Chapter 16 : Fossil Fuels
Chapter 17 : Nuclear Power Technologies through Year 2035
Chapter 18 : Outlook for U.S. Energy Consumption and Prices, 2011-2040

Part III : Energy Infrastructure and Storage
Chapter 19 : Transportation
Chapter 20 : Infrastructure Risk Analysis and Security
Chapter 21 : Electricity Infrastructure Resilience and Security
Chapter 22 : Electrical Energy Management in Buildings
Chapter 23 : Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Control Systems
Chapter 24 : Stirling Engines
Chapter 25 : Energy-Efficient Lighting Technologies and Their Applications in the Residential and Commercial Sectors
Chapter 26 : Energy-Efficient Technologies: Major Appliances and Space Conditioning Equipment
Chapter 27 : Heat Pumps
Chapter 28 : Electric Motor Systems Efficiency
Chapter 29 : Industrial Energy Efficiency and Energy Management
Chapter 30 : Process Energy Efficiency: Pinch Technology
Chapter 31 : Analysis Methods for Building Energy Auditing
Chapter 32 : Cogeneration
Chapter 33 : Energy Storage Technologies
Chapter 34 : Advanced Concepts in Transmission and Distribution
Chapter 35 : Smart Grid Technology

Part IV : Renewable Technologies
Chapter 36 : Solar Energy Resources
Chapter 37 : Wind Energy Resource
Chapter 38 : Municipal Solid Waste
Chapter 39 : Biomass Properties and Resources
Chapter 40 : Active Solar Heating Systems
Chapter 41 : Passive Solar Heating, Cooling, and Daylighting
Chapter 42 : Concentrating Solar Thermal Power
Chapter 43 : Wind Energy Conversion
Chapter 44 : Photovoltaics
Chapter 45 : Thin-Film PV Technology
Chapter 46 : Concentrating PV Technologies
Chapter 47 : Waste-to-Energy Combustion
Chapter 48 : Energy Recovery by Anaerobic Digestion Process

Part V : Biomass Energy Systems
Chapter 49 : Biomass Conversion to Heat and Power
Chapter 50 : Biomass Conversion to Fuels
Chapter 51 : Geothermal Power Generation
Chapter 52 : Hydrogen Energy Technologies
Chapter 53 : Fuel Cells

Index