Renewable Energy Sources

This chapter comprehensively presents renewable energy sources, their classifications, systems, and applications. Each renewable energy source is presented from historical developments to current status, as well as future forecasts. Technical and non-technical dimensions are also discussed, along with challenges and opportunities. It is further highlighted that renewable energy sources are dependent pretty much on locations and local conditions. Therefore, unique solutions are required to better tackle them. From this aspect, energy and exergy-based assessment tools and methodologies are required as given along with unique case studies. Some realistic approaches and high-level tools are introduced with important software packages in the energy industry, which are used in case studies.