Green Information and Communication Systems for a Sustainable Future

5  Renewable Energy Sources

Kamal Kant Sharma, Akhil Gupta, and Akhil Nigam

Contents

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Classification of Renewable Energy Sources

5.2.1 Solar energy

5.2.2 Wind energy

5.2.3 Hydro-power

5.3 Conclusion

References

5.1 Introduction

Frequently, renewable energy (RE) is referred to as clean energy or green energy, making use of natural resources like solar orientation or rotation, or wind flow at a particular speed [1, 2]. Renewable energy is a freely available energy which is extracted from all natural resources which are present in abundance like solar orientation (which normally people frequently misinterpret as sunlight), rotation of wind (clockwise or anticlockwise direction), and using the gravitational effect of the moon ...