Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development  

Francesco Martinico

Spatial planning should have a key role in creating urban environments that support less energy-intense lifestyles. A wise consideration of energy in urban land use policies should play an important role considering that, in spite of having a land occupat... see more

Omneya Sabry

Since the Early Eighties of the last Century, the Egyptian Government considered Energy Conservation as one of the main pillars of Energy Planning in Egypt, based on the fact that investing in Energy Efficiency is more cost effective than in constructing ... see more

Khaled El Zahaby

Housing & Building National Research Center, HBRC, is a governmental institute subordinate to the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities which started in 1954 by 12 employees. HBRC now has more than 1100 employees, 300 of which are M.Sc., an... see more

Mohamed Mostafa Al Naggar,Fatma Ashour,R. S. Ettouney,M. A. El Rifai

The depletion of fossil fuels prompted considerable research to find alternative fuels. Due its environmental benefits and renewable nature the production of biodiesel has acquired increasing importance with a view to optimizing the production procedure a... see more

Barry W. Williams,Mona Fouad Moussa

This paper presents a new family of three previously unidentified dc-to-dc converters, buck, boost, and buck-boost voltage-transfer-function topologies, which offer advantageous transformer coupling features and low capacitor dc voltage stressing. The thr... see more

Martin Kaltschmitt

During the last two decades renewable sources of energy as an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuel energy have gained more and more importance within the German electricity system. Their share has increased from less than 4 % to roughl... see more

Messaouda Azzouzi,Lakhdar Bessissa,Mona Fouad Moussa,Dumitru Popescu,Catalin Petrescu

This work concerns the modeling of a photovoltaic system and the prediction of the sensitivity of electrical parameters (current, power) of the six types of photovoltaic cells based on voltage applied between terminals using one of the best known artifici... see more

Roshdy A AbdelRassoul,Yosra Ali,Mohamed Saad Zaghloul

In recent years, a radical increase of photovoltaic (PV) power generators installation took place because of increased efficiency of solar cells, as well as the growth of manufacturing technology of solar panels. This paper shows the operation and modelin... see more

Mohammad Vahedi Torshizi,Atefeh Hoseini Mighani

Given that one day ends fossil fuels, need is  that finding alternative fuels for them And renewable energy is an alternative to fossil fuels and  nowadays gets much attention to it . in Between renewable energy sources, solar is more important ... see more