Books in the IOP Series in Renewable and Sustainable Power series

This comprehensive review provides a detailed insight into renewable energy options, their current state of development and how they can provide an environmentally sustainable energy future. This second edition is extensively revised and includes the latest advances in the field.

Renewable energy sources are large but some are variable and intermittent. The wide-scale use of renewable energy sources for energy supply will require the adoption of ways to compensate for their variability. This book reviews the technical options looking at their pros and cons and how they might work together to support a reliable and sustainable energy system. Renewable energy use is expanding rapidly - it supplies nearly a quarter of global electricity at present and there are plans to expand that dramatically. In which case, the need for balancing measures to deal with the variability of some of the sources, will become vital. This is a rapidly advancing area of research and practice and Balancing Green Power offers an ideal introduction to the field. It follows on from David Elliott''s previous book, Renewables: A review of sustainable energy supply options.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the fundamental aspects of electrochemical energy storage devices, with a focus on electrochemical supercapacitors. Building from an in-depth knowledge of the present state of energy utilisation, contextualised against the requirement for renewable energy, the book sets out the components and performance-governing parameters of conventional and supercapacitors, identifying the challenges, trends and limitations involved in their implementation. Accessible and authoritative, this book is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduate students and research scholars, as well as industry professionals working in energy, nanoscience, material science, and the automobile industry for e-vehicles.Key Features:Each chapter contains a table comprising performance parameters of the deviceProvides fundamental electrochemical properties of material and performance parameters for energy storage devicesIncludes requirement, characteristics, classification and recent trends in electrode materials for supercapacitorsSummarizes formation of material by various methodsProvides a broad insight of energy storage devices for future technological applications