Electricity Production from Renewables Energies

Introduction

From the beginning of the 21^st Century energy and environmental challenges have led to increasing electricity production from renewable energies. The concept of sustainable development and the concern for future generations challenge us daily, leading to the emergence of new energy production technologies and new behavior usage for these energies. The quick emergence of new technologies can make its understanding and perception difficult. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of these new electricity production technologies by targeting a large audience. It presents the challenges, sources and their conversion process into electricity by following a general approach. It also develops basic scientific notions to comprehend their main technical characteristics with a global view.

The objectives of this book are:

– to present electricity production systems from renewable energy sources from small to mean powers (up to 100 to 200 MW);

– to introduce basic electrical notions that are necessary for the understanding of the operational characteristics of these energy converters;

– to discuss integration constraints and issues in the electrical networks of these production units;

– to set a few exercises for self-assessment.

Chapter 1 introduces the concept of decentralized electricity production from renewable energy resources. It presents the challenges that have led to the development of electricity production, not only just from the ...