Talking renewables a renewable energy primer for everyone Anirudh Singh

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Anirudh, 1950- author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP series in renewable and sustainable power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renewable energy sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition

Other Title:

Renewable energy primer for everyone.

Place of Publication:

IOP Publishing 2025

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) IOP Publishing [2025]

Biography/History:

Anirudh Singh PhD, is an Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, specialising in Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation. He previously held a professorship at the University of Fiji and has 15 years of experience teaching and supervising graduate research.Anirudh is currently an Associate Editor for Management of Environmental Quality--An International Journal, and was Guest Editor for the Special issue of Energy Policy (2016), and Section Editor for the Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation (Springer, 2015). He was also an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).Over his writing career, which began with the first edition of this book, Anirudh has published three books in the renewable energy/climate change mitigation area for three international publishers, the last of which was published by IOP in 2023

Summary:

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, the role of renewable energy within the energy sector has transformed. This new edition responds to the increased demand for information on renewables, driven by the growing interest in the field and the Paris Agreement. The second edition maintains the original aim of providing an introductory book on renewables. However, it expands its content to address the evolving role of renewable energy in the energy transition. The four-part book begins with an introduction to the science, technology, and production of renewable energy. It then explores energy security and climate change mitigation, and concludes with a new section on the role of renewable energy in climate change mitigation, the Paris Agreement, and net-zero strategies (including a critique of nuclear energy as a clean energy alternative). Part of IOP Series in Renewable and Sustainable Power

Contents:

part I. The science and technology of renewable energy. 1. Energy and our economy

1.1. Energy and our changing world

1.2. Our energy needs

1.3. Forms of energy

1.4. Primary and end-use energy

1.5. Renewable energy

1.6. Activities

1.7. An overview of the rest of the book

1.8. Summary

2. Bioenergy and hydropower

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Bioenergy

2.3. Hydropower

2.4. Summary

3. Solar and wind energy

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Solar energy

3.3. Wind energy

3.4. Summary

4. Geothermal and ocean energy

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Geothermal energy

4.3. Ocean energy

4.4. Summary

part II. Requirements for renewable energy production. 5. Renewable energy resource assessment

5.1. Introduction

the essential requirements for renewable energy development

5.2. Solar resources

5.3. Wind resources

5.4. Hydro resources

5.5. Biomass and biofuels (bioenergy)

5.6. Summary

6. Other key requirements for renewable energy

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Human capacity

6.3. Institutional capacity

6.4. Policies and legislations

6.5. Summary

part III. Renewable energy in application. 7. Understanding the dynamics of RE production

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Making the right renewable energy choices

7.3. How much energy can an RET produce?

7.4. Basic economics of renewable energy

7.5. Myths and misconceptions about the cost of RE

7.6. New renewables and RETs

7.7. Summary

8. Putting renewable energy to use

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Renewable energy in the global energy landscape

8.3. Renewable energy and poverty

8.4. Renewable energy and the Sustainable Development Goals

8.5. Renewable energy and climate change mitigation

8.6. Summary

part IV. Net zero and the energy transition. 9. The science of climate change

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Global warming

9.3. Estimating emissions

9.4. Summary

10. The Paris Agreement and its implementation

10.1. Introduction

10.2. The UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement

10.3. NDCs and the COP outcomes

10.4. Summary

11. Strategies for achieving net zero

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Key requirements for a viable net-zero strategy

11.3. Net-zero case study

Australia

11.4. Is nuclear power a viable option?

11.5. Summary

12. Achieving net zero through the energy transition

12.1. Introduction

12.2. Global net-zero implementation pathways

12.3. Energy transition technologies

12.4. Technology transition matrix

12.5. Concluding remarks : the energy transition and net-zero strategies

12.6. Summary

Notes:

"Version: 20250301"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 1, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Talking renewables

ISBN:

9780750362801

9780750362795

OCLC:

1513521484

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