Introduction to Renewable Energy for

Engineers
First Edition

Chapter 1
Introduction to renewable 
energy

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Figure 1.1 Coal-Fired Power Plants Produce More
Electrical Power in the United States Than Any
Other Single Type of Power Plant

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Figure 1.2 Photovoltaic Solar Power Plants
Convert Solar Power Directly into Electrical
Power

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Figure 1.3 Wind Farms Generate Electrical
Power on a Commercial Scale

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Figure 1.4 The Three Gorges Dam, Spanning the
Yangtze China, Is the World's Largest Hydropower
Plant with a Generating Capacity of 22.5 GW

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Figure 1.5 The Don Campbell Geothermal Power in
Mineral County, Nevada, Has a Power-Generation
Capacity of 16 MW

(Courtesy of Ormat Technologies, Inc.)

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Figure 1.6 The La Rance Tidal Barrage, Located on
the Estuary of the Range River in Brittany, France,
Was the World's First Tidal Power Station. Its
Power-Generation Capacity Is 240 Mw. (TSWGB)

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Figure 1.7 Wood-Fired Power Plant in Northern
California Operated by Wheelabrator Shasta
Energy Company

(Wheelabrator Shasta Energy/NREL)

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Figure 1.8 As a Boulder Falls Toward the Ground,
Its Potential Energy Is Converted to Kinetic Energy

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