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Renewable Energy
in the 21st Century

by David J. Murphy
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Textbook Level: Written for undergraduate students, but could easily be used by advanced high school or graduate students
Audience: Environmental Sciences, Earth Science, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Natural Resources
Course Type: Introductory Renewable Energy Course

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"Renewable Energy in the 21st Century addresses an urgent educational need that has so far had very few answers: An accessible, up-to-date resource for understanding the rapid energy transition that is happening worldwide, without having to have a deep background in math and science."

— Chris Nelder, Energy Futurist/Analyst/Writer/Speaker. Host of The Energy Transition Show.
"Traditional tools for teaching energy are simply not up to the task, especially since many students who will use this book to understand how the energy system is being transformed to combat climate change will not be going into traditional energy careers, but rather tackling the political economy issues that come with it."

— Chris Nelder, Energy Futurist/Analyst/Writer/Speaker. Host of The Energy Transition Show.
"This is a vital resource that can equip all students, regardless of their interests, career directions, or educational backgrounds, to understand the most important challenge of our time: energy transition."

— Chris Nelder, Energy Futurist/Analyst/Writer/Speaker. Host of The Energy Transition Show.

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Renewable Energy in the 21st Century (RE21) is designed around the idea that energy literacy is becoming a necessary skill in 21st Century society, and as such the writing and content is meant to ensure that this goal is attainable for students of all academic backgrounds.

RE21 is the only textbook to teach students about renewable energy from the perspective of the energy transition. With an introductory section on energy transition, a section on electricity and electrical grid management, in addition to individual chapters on each renewable energy technology, this textbook educates and excites students about the opportunities and the hope encompassed in the energy transition

Unlike current textbooks designed for engineering students that assumes advanced math skills, or those designed for non-technical sustainability courses, RE21 is the only textbook on the market that provides non-engineering students with in-depth energy primers, informing them on the major energy technologies, how these integrate with society, how to calculate energy/power output, and how each technology fits into a more renewable energy future. In short, students who use this textbook will become energy transition generalists – prepared to enter a developing renewable energy workforce that includes a diversifying job market.

Key Features:

Full primers on energy technologies tools for calculating key energy-related parameters, providing students with important foundational knowledge for understanding and evaluating energy transitions
Interactive visualizations, allowing students to dynamically explore energy transition trends and stats
Integration with the Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder allowing students to engage with the textbook content on renewable energy in new ways, answering questions about the podcasts and discussing them in class.
"Backwards Design" approach and templates for more effective teaching of renewable energy concepts
Full set of teaching resources, including question pools for assessments, syllabus and semester-long student projects
Fully integrated with the Trunity course management tools, including online graded assessments, assignments and integrated grade book

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Designed for interdisciplinary teaching.
Renewable Energy in the 21st Century (RE21) bridges the gap between textbooks designed for engineering students and more superficial texts designed for sustainability courses. It can easily be adapted for use within Environmental Sciences, Earth Science, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, and Natural Resources courses.

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Section I: Energy Transition

+ A Brief History of Energy Transition
+ Energy Transition in the 21st Century
+ The Energy-Environment-Economy Connection

Section II: Energy Basics

Chapter 1: Energy Basics
+ Fundamental Forces
+ Energy, Work, and Force
+ Forms of Energy
+ The Laws of Thermodynamics
+ Energy Units

Chapter 2: Energy, Power, and Energy Quality
+ Energy and Power
+ Net Energy and Energy Return on Investment
+ Energy and Power Density

Section III: Electricity and Electrical Grid Systems

Chapter 3: Electricity and Power Generation
+ Electricity Basics
+ Direct and Alternating Current
+ Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law
+ Power Generation
+ Single vs. Three-Phase Power Generation
+ Power Plants
+ Electricity Consumption

Chapter 4: Electrical Grids
+ Electricity Grid Structure
+ Electricity Transmission and Distribution
+ History of Power Grid Management: North America
+ Two Models of Grid Management
+ Electrical Grid System Operation: Frequency and Inertia
+ Matching Supply and Demand: The NYISO Example
+ The Load Profile
+ Base, Peak, and Load-Following Generation
+ Renewable Energy and the Electrical Grid

Section IV: Energy Transition Technologies

Chapter 5: Solar Photovoltaics
+ From Sunlight to Electricity
+ Types of Solar Systems
+ Residential, Commercial and Utility Scale Solar
+ Types of PV Cells
+ Calculating Solar Power and Energy Potential

Chapter 6: Solar Thermal
+ Passive Solar
- Heat Transfer
-  Calculating Conduction and Convection
-  Principles of Passive Design
+ Active Solar
-  Concentrated Solar Thermal Power
-  Solar Thermal

Chapter 7: Wind Energy
+ The Origin of Wind
+ History of Wind Power
+ Types of Wind Turbines
+ Calculating Wind Power and Energy Potential

Chapter 8: Hydropower
+ Types of Hydropower
+ Hydropower Turbines
+ Calculating Hydro Power and Energy Potential

Chapter 9: Hydropower
+ Bioenergy Feedstocks
+ Biomass Conversion Processes and Technologies
-  Corn Ethanol Production
-  Wood for Heat and Power
-  Landfill Gas and Anaerobic Digestion
+ Limitations of Bioenergy
+ Bioenergy Calculations

Chapter 10: Geothermal
+ Geothermal Electricity Production
+ Direct-Use and Geothermal Heat Pump Systems
+ Calculating the Efficiency of Heat Pumps

Pedagogical Approach and Teaching Methods

Goals

Students who use this textbook will be able to identify and describe the major renewable energy technologies, explain the generation of electricity and electricity grid management, and describe how all of that relates to the current energy transition and the prospect for altering the connections between energy, the economy and the environment. In short, students who use this textbook will become energy transition generalists – prepared to enter a developing renewable energy workforce that includes a diversifying job market.

Design

In their book “Understanding by Design,” Wiggins and McTighe suggest that educators should design courses by first thinking about what they want students to know at the end of a course, then work backward from that point down to each individual lecture. This same logic was used in designing Renewable Energy in the 21st Century (RE21) to make it more effective for faculty adopting the textbook for their courses.

The backwards design approach used for RE21 textbook has four hierarchical levels. The broadest level is the course goal, which answers the question: “How will you be different after taking this course?” Beneath the course goal there are four learning goals, each corresponding to one of the four sections of the textbook. Then, below the learning goals, the learning outcomes correspond to the individual chapters. Then, below the learning outcomes, are the lectures and activities. By designing in this fashion, the instructor can be assured that a lecture or activity designed to focus on one learning outcome will also help achieve a learning goal and, ultimately, the overall course goal. Below the table is a list of all the goals, starting with the Course Goal and ending with the Learning Outcomes. The textbook stops short of level 4 – Lectures and Activities – because that is where there will be more variety in application. Regardless of whether you are more inclined to lecture or to use more of a discussion format, if you align your lecture/discussion with a particular learning outcome listed below, you will be working towards the ultimate course goal.

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Course Goals	Learning Goals	Learning Outcomes	Lectures and Activities
How will you be different after taking this course?	What must you be able to think and do to be different after this course?	What must you be able to think and do to successfully complete the learning goals?	What must you be able to think and do to successfully complete each learning outcome?

Course Goals

Students who use this textbook can identify and describe the major renewable energy technologies, explain the generation of electricity and electricity grid management, and describe how all of that relates to the current energy transition and the prospect for altering the connections between energy, the economy and the environment. In short, students who use this textbook will become energy transition generalists – prepared to enter a developing renewable energy workforce that includes an increasingly diversifying job market.

Learning Objectives

Section I: To explain the connections between the energy transition and the energy-economy-environment nexus in the context of historic and current energy transition

Section II: To summarize the basic energy information required to understand renewable energy

Section III: a) To explain electricity; b) to summarize how electricity is generated, and c) to describe how electricity grids are operated and managed

Section IV: To explain how the most important renewable energy technologies operate, including: 1) solar photovoltaics, 2) concentrated solar thermal power generation, 3) passive house design, 4) wind energy, 5) hydropower, 6) bioenergy, and 7) geothermal.

Learning Outcomes

SECTION I

Chapter 0

To summarize the history of global energy transitions
To describe the current energy transition
To explain the Energy-Environment-Economy connection
To explain how the current energy transition will impact the Energy-Environment-Economy connection

SECTION II

Chapter 1

To identify the fundamental forces
To explain the connection between the fundamental forces and energy
To identify the Laws of Thermodynamics and their relation to energy
To identify energy units

Chapter 2

To identify and differentiate energy and power
To summarize the importance of net energy and energy return on investment

SECTION III

Chapter 3

To identify electricity basics - voltage and current
To differentiate between direct and alternating current
To summarize the role of Lenz's and Faraday's law in electricity
To differentiate single and three-phase power generation
To identify and describe the operation of power plants
To summarize the three basic ways electricity is consumed

Chapter 4

To identify general electricity grid structure
To summarize basic electricity transmission and distributions
To summarize the history of electrical grid management in North America
To differentiate between the two general models of electricity grid management
To explain the role of frequency and inertia in electrical grid operation
To summarize how supply and demand are met by using the NYISO as an example
To identify how grid managers use the load profile to inform grid management
To differentiate between base, peak and load-following generation
To explain how renewable energy generation impacts current electrical grid management

SECTION IV

Chapter 5

To explain how sunlight creates electricity in a solar photovoltaic cell
To differentiate between different types of photovoltaic systems
To differentiate between different types of photovoltaic cells
To identify how to calculate basic energy and power values for solar systems

Chapter 6

To identify the two forms of heat transfer
To explain how to calculate heat transfer
To summarize the principles of passive design
To differentiate between the types of concentrated solar thermal power generation
To identify active solar thermal technologies used to produce heat

Chapter 7

To explain how wind is created in the atmosphere
To summarize the history of wind power
To differentiate between the various types of wind turbines
To explain how to calculate basic wind power and energy production

Chapter 8

To differentiate the various types of hydropower
To differentiate the various types of hydropower turbines
To explain how to calculate basic hydropower and energy production

Chapter 9

To identify biomass feedstocks
To describe the main bioenergy technologies: corn-ethanol production, wood for heat and power, landfill gas, and anaerobic digestion.
To discuss the main limitations of bioenergy
To explain how to do basic bioenergy calculations

Chapter 10

To summarize the main technologies used for geothermal electrical production
To summarize the main geothermal heating technologies
To explain how to perform basic geothermal energy calculations

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Expert Reviews

❝ Renewable Energy in the 21st Century addresses an urgent educational need that has so far had very few answers: An accessible, up-to-date resource for understanding the rapid energy transition that is happening worldwide, without having to have a deep background in math and science. Traditional tools for teaching energy are simply not up to the task, especially since many students who will use this book to understand how the energy system is being transformed to combat climate change will not be going into traditional energy careers, but rather tackling the political economy issues that come with it. This is a vital resource that can equip all students, regardless of their interests, career directions, or educational backgrounds, to understand the most important challenge of our time: energy transition❞

Chris Nelder, Energy Futurist/Analyst/Writer/Speaker. Host of The Energy Transition Show.

RE21 Visualizations

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Total Net Generation for the USA from 2000-2017 by Fuel Type

Electricity Production in the United States. The circles in the middle indicate the current electricity mix by resource, with the size of the circle representing the relative contribution from that resource. The graphs on the side show the change over time for each resource

ENVIRONMENT-ECONOMY-ENERGY

The visual above summarizes the energy-environment-economy connection. Economic theory tells us that growth is good, but it doesn’t tell us that growth requires materials and energy. Over the past 200 years that energy has come in the form of fossil fuels, which has led to increasing carbon-dioxide emissions and global climate change. It also means that wealthier countries require more energy, and since that energy is currently in the form of fossil fuels, they also emit more greenhouse gas emissions.

DECOUPLING

The energy transition, if properly done, can lead to a situation where energy consumption breaks away from greenhouse gas emissions. It won’t be easy, and many think that on a global level it is impossible, but some countries are getting it done. Decoupling is the idea that we can tear apart energy consumption from emissions, leading to a situation where we can enjoy the comforts of modern life without destroying the climate.

And yes, the author would be happy to speak with you! Check out the Author Q&A

David J. Murphy, Ph. D.

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Environmental Studies Department, St. Lawrence University
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David Murphy teaches Introduction to Environmental Studies, Energy and the Environment, as well as a number of other courses on energy and economics.

Dr. Murphy’s work examines the intersection of three areas: energy, economy and the environment. He is an energy expert focused on understanding mega-trends within the energy industry, usually involving the integration of quantitative energy analytics, often in the form of energy return on investment, with policy and other economic analysis to derive whole-system trends and attributes.

Dr. Murphy came to the Environmental Studies department at St. Lawrence University from a joint position as a faculty member at Northern Illinois University and a research associate with Argonne National Laboratory. Over his career, Dr. Murphy has researched the intersection of energy, the environment, and economics.

He has also been featured on the podcast “The Energy Transition Show” with Chris Nelder and has written a number of op-eds and other media related work.

We asked David to share with us how this book came about...

The existing renewable energy textbooks fall into two categories. The first are those meant for graduate engineering students and therefore are technically and mathematically too sophisticated (and boring!) for most undergraduate and high school students. The second are those meant for students studying sustainability and only superficially discuss, for example, how a solar panel operates. What I wanted, and what I think most undergraduate, high school, and even interdisciplinary graduate students want, is a book that gives them enough knowledge about renewable energy to talk intelligently about how the technologies work, to do some basic math calculating power and energy outputs, and to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with the integration of those technologies into the current energy mix. This book does just that. It is a primer on renewable energy, informing students about the major technologies, how they integrate with society, how to calculate energy/power output, and how each technology fits into a more renewable energy future.

My intention in writing this book was to allow for it to serve as the main text for a semester-long college level course on renewable energy. That said, the book could easily be adapted for use in upper-division high school courses, or as the main text for graduate courses. I have also added videos for instructors to help those adopting the textbook understand better how to translate this book to a course.

Since this textbook was born out of my needs in the classroom, I have included a few additional teacher materials for those who adopt the book. The first item is a blank syllabus, that includes both the assessments I use when teaching but also a basic weekly schedule that gives an instructor an idea of about how long I think it takes to teach each section of the book, considering that some topics are more easily learned than others. I also include a semester-long research project that I assign my students that allows them to take a deep-dive into one aspect of the energy transition.

David Murphy
June 2019

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As the chapters in RE21 vary in length, the cost of the chapters differ. The prices per chapter are as follows: (for K12/AP apply a 50% discount)

Unit I: Energy Transition (included)
Unit II: Energy Basics
Ch 1 - Energy Basics = $9
Ch 2 - Energy, Power, and Energy Quality = $5.40
Unit III: Electricity and Electrical Grid Systems
Ch 3 - Electricity and Power Generation = $12.60
Ch 4 - Electrical Grids = $16.20
Unit IV: Energy Transition Technologies
Ch 5 - Solar Photovoltaics = $9
Ch 6 - Solar Thermal = $9
Ch 7 - Wind Energy = $7.20
Ch 8 - Hydropower = $5.40
Ch 9 - Bioenergy = $10.80
Ch 10 - Geothermal = $5.40
The Energy Transition Show (included)
Additional Teacher Material (included)

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Renewable Energy in the 21st Century
Originally published: 2019
Last updated: 2019
Publisher: Trunity

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