Renewable Energy-Driven Desalination: New Trends and Future Prospects of Small Capacity Systems

Optimal Operation of Residential Energy Hubs Considering Optimized Capacity of Photovoltaic-based Renewable Energy Systems

The deployment of multi-carrier energy systems, which are called energy hubs, is one of the most recent and useful strategies in the field of energy systems. The reliability of energy systems and their operation cost and efficiency could be improved by applying the concepts of energy hubs. The simultaneous management of electrical consumptions and heat demands by the concepts of energy hub woul...

Seawater desalination using renewable energy sources

The origin and continuation of mankind is based on water. Water is one of the most abundant resources on earth, covering three-fourths of the planet’s surface. However, about 97% of the earth’s water is salt water in the oceans, and a tiny 3% is fresh water. This small percentage of the earth’s water—which supplies most of human and animal needs—exists in ground water, lakes and rivers. The onl...

Integration of Renewable Energy into Present and Future Energy Systems

Small Hydro-Power Plants in Kenya: A Review of Status, Challenges and Future Prospects

Small Hydro-power Plants (SHP) are an important source of electricity in many countries. However, little is known about SHP in Kenya. This paper reviews the status, challenges in implementation of SHP and prospects for future development of SHP in Kenya. The paper shows that SHP has not yet fully utilized the available hydro-power potential. The challenges associated with SHP development should...

The Prospects for Affordable Renewable Energy

Recent advances in energy "second-order potential" of 53,000 technologies have made it possible TWh/year that also takes into acto project scenarios in which count a wide range of social, envirenewables satisfy more than half ronmental, and land-use constraints, of global primary energy including aesthetic concerns about demand by the middle of the visual impacts. Somewhat more connext century....