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This book is intended for undergraduate students in non‐electrical engineering disciplines such as architectural, civil, and mechanical engineering, physics, and chemistry, as well as professionals in related fields who want to acquaint themselves with electrical engineering as applied to energy or specifically to renewable energy. It is assumed that the reader has good high school and/or applied mathematics educational college background such as Calculus III – covering vector analysis, complex numbers, differentiation, ordinary differential equations, and partial derivatives as well as integration. This text integrates energy and electrical engineering technologies, starting from basic principles and covering detailed analyses of renewable and electric energy issues and their solutions. Application examples highlight conventional and renewable energy problems. Software programs such as Mathematica and PSPICE (Personal Computer Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) are applied to solve component and system problems.

This book has evolved chiefly from the content of undergraduate electrical and energy engineering courses taught by the first author at the University of Colorado at Boulder and also draws on the second author's research experience at the University of California Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It is suitable for students who do not have educational background in energy and electrical engineering, as well as for practicing engineers who want to refresh and enhance their knowledge in these disciplines through 125 application example solutions, 157 problems and their solutions in the 309-page Instructor Manual, and more than 449 reference citations (mostly journal and conference papers, as well as national and international standards and guidelines). The extensive and detailed inclusion of practical applications stresses learning by example. Up‐to‐date references are given through the inclusion of Internet addresses. The “Système International” (SI) of units has been used throughout with some reference to the American/English system of units. Note that mass has the units (e.g. kg or lb) and weight has the units (e.g. kg‐force or lb‐force), where lb stands for “librum” as used in the English technical literature.