This book is a first introduction to renewable energy and climate change mitigation for the general readership. It provides a detailed introduction, presented in plain English, to the science, technology, production and use of renewables with special focus on their application in the energy transition.
Anirudh Singh, PhD, is a researcher/writer/consultant in Renewable Energy and Climate Change currently based at the University of Fiji where he is developing a Master’s programme in Renewable Energy Management.
Anirudh spent the major portion of his teaching/research career at the University of the South Pacific (USP) where he taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Physics and Renewable Energy and managed two major capacity-building projects (Project DIREKT and Project L3EAP) in Renewable Energy within international EU-funded collaborations. Since 2009 he has managed two international conferences and fourteen Renewable Energy capacity-building workshops, and has been Associate/Guest editor for the Energy Policy journal and the Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation published by Springer. He has also contributed to, and featured in, an online MOOC called Sustainable Energy for Small Island Developing States created at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
Anirudh spent five years managing a university campus, has 20 years university teaching/administration experience, has published 10 book chapters, and more than 50 papers in international journals. He has made more than 50 presentations in 11 countries over the last 20 years.
Before his career in Renewable Energy, Anirudh carried out muon implantation research at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Leicester University in the UK from where he obtained his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics.