Renewable Energy Sources and their Environmental Impacts

The book presents the virtues of renewable and biomass energy sources and at the same time studied the environmental impacts likely to be caused when such sources are used intensively either as small scale, dispersed or large scale centralize systems. The book is divided into three parts: part one covers the important of renewable energy sources, solar, wind, wave, biomass, geothermal, tidal and hydropower, part two covers renewable/biomass energy availability, opportunities, barriers and policy recommendations to the development and penetration of renewable/biomass energy technologies in Nigeria and part three covers the environmental impacts of renewable energy sources. It is intended as textbook for courses in energy studies, environmental sciences, and engineering at the higher nation diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, it will also serve as a reference book for scientists, engineers, and technicians.