Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides students with a quantitative and accessible introduction to the renewable technologies at the heart of efforts to build a sustainable future. Key features include new chapters on essential topics in energy storage, off-grid systems, microgrids and community energy; revised chapters on energy and grid fundamentals, wind energy, hydro power, photovoltaic and solar thermal energy, marine energy and bioenergy; appendices on foundational topics in electrical engineering, heat transfer and fluid dynamics; discussion of how real-world projects are developed, constructed and operated; over 60 worked examples linking theory to real-world engineering applications; and over 150 end-of-chapter homework problems, with solutions for instructors. Accompanied online at www.cambridge.org/jenkins2e by extended exercises and datasets, enabling instructors to create unique projects and coursework, this new edition remains the ideal multi-disciplinary introduction to renewable energy, for senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

'The book has a lot of very useful and general content that will support one module but also parts of a programme. Useful to have an updated general text to support teaching of renewable energy (the science/engineering).' Christopher Dixon, University of Dundee

Nick Jenkins is Professor of Renewable Energy at Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IET and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Janaka Ekanayake is Senior Professor and the Chair of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, IESL and the Sri Lanka National Academy of Sciences.