Energy provision for low income or remote communities is a difficult challenge, with many still depending on polluting and costly fossil fuels. Transporting energy is a further problem since some communities are only accessible during brief periods of the year. Local energy generation is a key solution, but technical challenges need to be overcome.
This hands-on treatise explores technologies and approaches for accelerating deployment of accessible clean energy and discusses obstacles hindering that deployment. The primary focus is on engineering topics, although contributions from non-engineering application experts are also included. Chapters cover principal aspects of energy provision for low-income communities, low cost and energy-efficient housing designs, solar energy for low-income communities, solar PV integration in residential buildings, rural electrification in low-income communities and in remote communities using wind and solar energy, advances in biofuels production, and as a case study, modelling and forecasting energy mix scenarios for Turkey.
Clean Energy for Low Income Communities: Technology, deployment and challenges offers in-depth discussion of this multidisciplinary topic for an audience of researchers in academia, renewable energy and utilities experts in industry, technology manufacturers and advanced students, as well as energy experts in think tanks and development banks.
This work supports the goal of achieving affordable and clean energy, with a focus on low income and remote communities. Chapters cover deployment of solar systems, small wind turbines, run-of-river hydropower, storage, water desalination, and case studies.
Chapter 1: Sharing clean energy with the poor
Chapter 2: Providing clean and affordable energy for all: possible, practical
or propaganda?
Chapter 3: Low-cost and energy-efficient housing design: a review on research
trends
Chapter 4: Enabling solar energy production for low-income communities
Chapter 5: Building energy efficiency improvements and solar PV systems
integration
Chapter 6: Sustainable energy solutions for rural electrification in a
low-income community
Chapter 7: An introduction to the electrification in remote communities
located in ecologically sensitive areas: from planning to implementation
experience
Chapter 8: Enhancing solar insolation in agricultural greenhouses by
adjusting its orientation and shape
Chapter 9: Recent advances in biofuels production: industrial applications
Chapter 10: Modelling and forecasting the energy mix scenarios for Türkiye
via LEAP analysis
Chapter 11: Realizing clean energy for every earthling
David S-K. Ting is a professor in the Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Windsor, Canada. His research interests include flow turbulence, aerodynamics, energy conversion and management, and energy storage.
Jacqueline A. Stagner is an associate professor in the Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Windsor, Canada. Besides her research on renewable energy, energy storage, and climate change mitigation, she also coordinates the undergraduate programs.
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