5 Must-Read Texts about Renewable Energies

In the past, I was looking for profound literature about renewable energies and in particular wind energy. Here is what I have found so far:

1) Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes
Da, R., (2005). Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes. Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press.

Da presents a well written introduction to all kinds of renewable energy sources. I recommend chapter 1 - Generalities and chapter 16 - Ocean energy.

2) Renewable Energy
Boyle, G., (2004). Renewable Energy. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Open University.

Boyle wrote a nice illustrated textbook for renewable energies. His main focus is on renewable energies in the UK, but this does not matter for the good purpose of the text. His chapter on hydro and wave power are highly recommended.

3) Power Electronics Handbook
Rashid, E., (2007). Power Electronics Handbook. Boston: Elsevier / Academic Press.

Rashid et al. created an excellent monograph about power electronics. A chapter is devoted towind power applications, its controls and an other chapter covers issues of the important issue in renewable energies of power quality. He also covers artificial neural networt applications in power electronics.

4) Wind Energy
Mathew, S., (2006). Wind Energy. Berlin: Springer.

Mathew is provides a comprehensive summary about wind energy from the aerodynamics to the generator. He covers the two statistical models for wind data - Rayleigh and Weibull and talks about the energy estimation based on the models. Interesting in the book is the chapter about wind pumps. Finally, Mathews talks in-depth about the environmental impact of wind energy converters and the economics of wind energy.

5) Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Heier, S., (2006). Grid Integration of Wind Energy Conversion Systems. New York: Wiley.

If you always wanted to know how to derive fundamental equations for wind turbines from the aerodynamics to the energy conversion then this is your book! I was looking for a profound derivation of the power coefficient equation (you know Cp) and the Simulink documentation referenced this book. I was reading the issue from 1998, but as I am writing the post, I discovered that there is a updated version out.

Do you think, I missed a very important textbook about renewable energies then let me know. I'll be more then happy to add it to the list!