Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems

Technology to utilize the forces of nature for doing work to supply human needs is as old as the first sailing ship. But attention swung away from renewable sources as the industrial revolution progressed on the basis of the concentrated energy locked up in fossil fuels. The current book presents comprehensive theoretical and practical overview of designing, testing and troubleshooting power electronics in alternative energy systems, providing readers with the most important information on power electronic converters topologies. This book also addresses the problems associated with the use of power electronic converters in renewable energy source-based systems. In that regard the near certainty of costs being imposed on carbon dioxide emissions in developed countries at least has profoundly changed the economic outlook of clean energy sources. This book, therefore, provides the latest developments in the broad area of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy. The book discusses wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. 

Print ISBN: 9781682517512 | $160 | 2021 | Hardcover

Subject: Engineering and Technology

Editor: Pedro Andrea Zambon