Solar energy storage

Focuses on energy stores suitable for integration into solar energy systems for delivering electric or thermal power to the end-users and emphasizes the latest technological developments driving this discipline forward. The book incorporates contributions from an internationally-recognized group of top authors, from both industry and academia, to provide information on issues ranging from underlying scientific fundamentals to practical applications.

Contributors. Preface. Introduction and overview / Bent Sørensen. Part 1 Solar energy storage options: Solar electrical energy storage / Yulong Ding, Yongliang Li, Chuanping Liu and Ze Sun -- Innovative systems for storage of thermal solar energy in buildings / Lingai Luo and Nolwenn Le Pierrès -- Assessment of electricity storage systems / F. Rahman, M.A. Baseer and S. Rehman -- Storage of solar thermal energy in dependency of geographical and climatic boundary conditions/ Roman Marx -- Sorption heat storage / H.A. Zondag -- Energetic complementarity with hydropower and the possibility of storage in batteries and water reservoirs / Alexandre Beluco, Paulo Kroeff de Souza, Flávio Pohlmann Livi and Johann Caux -- Revitalization of hydro energy, a new approach for storing solar energy / Z. Glasnovic and K. Margeta. Part 2 Economic assessment of solar storage: Photovoltaics and storage plants, efficient capacities in a system view / B. Böcker, B. Steffen and C. Weber -- Economics of solar PV systems with storage, in main grid and mini-grid settings / Iain MacGill and Muriel Watt. Part 3 Environmental and social impacts: Environmental issues associated with solar electric and thermal …