This textbook is intended for an audience with little or no power engineering or renewable energy background.
The book covers electric energy from alternative energy sources, including solar, wind, water, hydropower, geothermal, and ocean energy.
Core issues discussed include wind and solar resource estimates and analysis, solar thermal systems, solar collectors, photovoltaics, wind turbines, geothermal energy, energy small hydropower, wave, tide and ocean energy, and characteristics of en.