This book provides a quantitative yet accessible overview of renewable energy engineering practice including wind, hydro, solar, ocean and bioenergy.

Nicholas Jenkins is Professor of Renewable Energy at Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

1. Energy in the modern world; 2. Wind energy; 3. Hydro power; 4. The solar energy resource; 5. Photovoltaic systems; 6. Solar thermal energy; 7. Marine energy; 8. Bioenergy; 9. Development and appraisal of renewable energy projects; 10. Electrical energy systems; Tutorial I. Electrical engineering; Tutorial II. Heat transfer; Tutorial III. Simple behaviour of fluids.