Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems

Un libro de consulta diario, con nociones generales de energía, fuentes renovables y económicas.

A very solid book for understanding the basics of power systems, including detailed chapters and examples dedicated to the early basics (Ohm's Law, voltage dividers, motors, inductance and capacitance equations) of circuit and E&M theory. The examples presented are simple, but real-world applicable, including some nice forays into the economics behind the various power systems.I am a grad student focusing on optics and photonics, so power systems are completely new for me. I can't claim to have finished the book yet, but so far it's been a very comprehensible tool and I have learned a lot.

One of the better engineering texts books. Lots of worked out examples in the book. However like all engineering texts there are a lot of problems in each chapter that are not discussed in text at all.

It's not too bad of a read. It contains good mathematical examples. It covers more solar power than expected. Covers most renewables used today.

I took a renewable energy class that used this book. There are good textbooks and bad ones and this one is the latter. Mr. Masters attempts to cover too many topics in one book and does a poor job at describing any of these topics in enough detail to be useful. The first chapter starts out with a review of the economics of the power industry. Our instructor for this section was previously the CFO of a large midwest utility and he cautioned us that some of the data represented in the book was wrong. He also mentioned that some of the calculations were questionable. So that was the first chapter.The second chapter attempts to review / teach basic electricity and magnetic circuits. This area of study should not be relegated to a single chapter in a book. I am an EE/Physics major and I was confused as who this book is written for after reading this chapter. If you don't know circuits, I'm pretty sure this overview is frustratingly brief. If you do know circuits you are left to wonder why this chapter is included in the book.As the chapters progress more and more material is introduced in a similar way. If you know physics great, otherwise you are introduced to many complex concepts like valence electrons and pn junctions in 2 to 3 pages, wow.The problems are the worst, Mr. Masters wants his readers to make large leaps to be able to solve the given problems. He figures that the reader is at the point, after being briefly introduced to topics, can then make the assumptions of a seasoned electrical engineer / physicist / CFO / contractor to work through his problems. He also enjoys asking questions where the data is not in the units described in the text so the reader must first convert the units before starting the problem. It would seam that in the least, this book would try to show the reader how to convert what one is left to assume are industry standard units for renewable energy from one form to another but this is always left to the reader.

I am just through chapter 3 at the time of writing this review. It is an easy text to understand. I got my BSEE in 2006 and was a bit nervous about this course. The text has allowed me to re-familiarize myself slowly but surely

It explains much better what others don't

Highly useful for the course I am currently studying

Informative and helpful. A little overpriced, but aren't all textbooks?