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Renewable Energy and Sustainable Buildings

Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2018

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  • Presents cutting-edge research in green building and renewable energy from all over the world
  • Covers the most up-to-date research developments, government policies, business models, best practices and innovations
  • Contains case studies and examples to enhance practical application of the technologies

Part of the book series: Innovative Renewable Energy (INREE)

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About this book

This book contains selected papers presented during the World Renewable Energy Network’s 28thanniversary congress at the University of Kingston in London. The forum highlighted the integration of renewables and sustainable buildings as the best means to combat climate change. In-depth chapters written by the world’s leading experts highlight the most current research and technological breakthroughs and discuss policy, renewable energy technologies and applications in all sectors – for heating and cooling, agricultural applications, water, desalination, industrial applications and for the transport sectors.

  • Presents cutting-edge research in green building and renewable energy from all over the world;
  • Covers the most up-to-date research developments, government policies, business models, best practices and innovations;
  • Contains case studies and examples to enhance practical application of the technologies.

  

Editors and Affiliations

  • World Renewable Energy Congress, Brighton, UK

    Ali Sayigh

About the editor

Dr. Ali Sayigh is Chairman and Founder of the World Renewable Energy Congress and Council; Director General of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN); Chairman and Founder of the Arab Solar Energy Society; and Past Chairman of the UK Solar Energy Society. Dr. Sayigh was recently elected to chair the Iraqi Energy Institute, and he actively consults on renewable and sustainable energy issues for a number of international organizations, including UNESCO, ISESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, & UNIDO. Dr. Sayigh was Director of Solar Seminars at ICTP Trieste, Italy from 1977-1995; Professor of Solar Energy at King Saud, Kuwait, and Reading Universities from 1969 to 1994, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire from 1994 to 2004. He was the founding expert in Renewable Energy at AOPEC. He is Fellow of the Institute of Energy; Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; and Chartered Engineer. He has published more than 400 papers and has contributed to andedited more than 30 books. He has been Editor and Editor-in-Chief of several international journals including Renewable Energyand the International Journal of Environmental Sciences and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of the Major Reference Work Comprehensive Renewable Energy.


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