Renewable Energy Systems: A Smart Energy Systems Approach to the Choice and Modeling of 100% Renewable Solutions

In this new edition of Renewable Energy Systems, globally recognized renewable energy researcher and professor, Henrik Lund, sets forth a straightforward, comprehensive methodology for comparing different energy systems’ abilities to integrate fluctuating and intermittent renewable energy sources. The book does this by presenting an energy system analysis methodology.

The book provides the results of more than fifteen comprehensive energy system analysis studies, examines the large-scale integration of renewable energy into the present system, and presents concrete design examples derived from a dozen renewable energy systems around the globe. Renewable Energy Systems, Second Edition also undertakes the socio-political realities governing the implementation of renewable energy systems by introducing a theoretical framework approach aimed at understanding how major technological changes, such as renewable energy, can be implemented at both the national and international levels.

• Provides an introduction to the technical design of renewable energy systems
• Demonstrates how to analyze the feasibility and efficiency of large-scale systems to help implementers avoid costly trial and error
• Addresses the socio-political challenge of implementing the shift to renewables
• Features a dozen extensive case studies from around the globe that provide real-world templates for new installations

Prof. M.Sc.Eng., Ph.D., Dr.Techn. Henrik Lund is Professor in Energy Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark. A highly regarded and world leading researcher, he is listed in the ISI Highly Cited researchers which ranks him among the top 1% of researchers in the world within engineering. Prof. Lund holds a PhD in Implementation of Sustainable Energy Systems (1990) and a Senior Doctoral degree in Choice Awareness and Renewable

Energy Systems (2009). For many years, his area of expertise has been energy system analysis, energy planning, and energy economics. Prof. Lund is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Energy – The International Journal and is the author of more than 400 books and articles, including the book ‘Renewable Energy Systems’. He is the architect behind the advanced energy system analysis software EnergyPLAN.