An account of the engineering history of extracting energy from our environment in sustainable ways, this book describes the status of energy usage, then reviews energy demands through history, covering science, engineering, and electricity, with graphical and schematic data presentation.

The new, thoroughly revised edition of this classic book on offshore wind farm reliability. This work captures the latest developments in turbine and farm design, monitoring, safety and maintenance of a centre pillar of the emerging carbon free energy system.

To some extent the wave and tidal generation industry is following in the wake of the wind industry, learning from the growing experience of offshore wind farm deployment. This book combines wind industry lessons with wave and tidal field knowledge to explore the main reliability and availability issues facing this growing industry.