Sustainable Energy Management: Planning, Implementation, Control, and Security - Softcover

Radovanovic (Golusin)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128210869 ISBN 13: 9780128210864

Publisher: Academic Press, 2022

Synopsis

Sustainable Energy Management: Planning, Implementation, Control and Strategy, Second Edition provides the key concepts and practical knowledge needed to successfully plan, implement and control sustainable energy technologies. The book provides new paradigms for measuring energy sustainability, pragmatic methods for applying renewable resources, efficiency improvements, and unique insights on managing risk. It highlights the possible financial and practical impacts of these activities, as well as the methods for their calculation. This new edition provides updated guidelines for planning, analyzing, developing and optimizing sustainable energy production projects in the real world, also presenting real-life examples of the topics covered in each chapter.

With its focus on real-life issues and discussions of practical challenges, this book is an ideal resource for engineers, researchers and energy managers developing and rolling out sustainable energy practices. Included case studies will help benchmark decisions, especially in the book's new chapter on energy security.

• Presents completely updated content, including new data, tables and figures
• Contains new, global case studies in every chapter
• Provides new content on energy security, advanced methodologies for energy saving and energy efficiency, integration of renewables, GHG emissions, and future challenges
• Explores real-life pathways for transitioning to sustainable energy practices
• Features case studies from around the world, explaining the whys and hows of successes and failures
• Covers a broad spectrum of energy development issues, from planning through realization, emphasizing efficiency, scale-up of renewables, risk mitigation and energy security

About this title

About the Author

Mirjana Radovanović (Golusin) works at the Faculty of Security Studies, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia, as professor of Energy Security and Management of Critical Infrastructure. Her research focuses on Energy Security, Energy Policy, Qualitative and Multivariate Research and Analysis.

From the Back Cover

Sustainable Energy Management: Planning, Implementation, Control and Strategy, Second Edition, provides the key concepts and practical knowledge to successfully plan, implement and control energy technologies with focus on efficiency, sustainability and security. This guide provides new paradigms for measuring energy sustainability, pragmatic methods for applying renewable resources and efficiency improvements, and unique insights on managing risk. It highlights the possible financial and practical impacts of these activities, as well as the methods for their calculation. This new edition of this well-known work has deeper coverage of energy security, provides updated guidelines for planning, analyzing, developing and optimizing sustainable energy production projects in the real world, and includes real-life examples of the topics covered in each chapter.

For its focus on real-life issues and discussion of practical challenges, Sustainable Energy Management: Planning, Implementation, Control and Strategy, Second Edition is an ideal resource for engineers, researchers and energy managers developing and rolling out sustainable energy practices. Graduate students in the field benefit from the book’s exploration of all key-concepts of energy management, whereas policy-makers and energy-analysts will find the case studies particularly helpful as benchmarks to guide their own decisions, especially in the new chapter on energy security.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128210869
• ISBN 13: 9780128210864
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 318