Solar, Biogas, and Battery Energy Storage
A Complete Guide to Designing Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems for Sustainable Energy AccessBy Amara Boateng
Length15h 56m
About this audiobook
Most renewable systems fail on arithmetic, not equipment. This book fixes that.
You begin with a real load profile, then size an array against measured irradiance, tilt and shading, choose an inverter architecture with clipping understood, and select storage with cycle life and depth of discharge as design inputs rather than marketing claims. Separate chapters take you into lithium pack design and balancing, containerised utility-scale storage and thermal runaway mitigation, and anaerobic digestion from carbon-to-nitrogen ratio through digester construction and gas scrubbing. Wind and micro-hydro are added where the resource justifies them. Wiring, protection, earthing, levelised cost and commissioning close the book.
Written for off-grid builders, energy technicians, project developers and engineering students working on sustainable energy access, this guide treats design as a sequence of measurable decisions. Every chapter connects to the next: demand estimation feeds array sizing, battery selection follows inverter architecture, and economic assessment depends on the load profile you started with. The result is a complete pathway from resource assessment to a commissioned, maintainable system.
What you will learn:
• Build accurate load profiles and demand estimates for off-grid and hybrid systems
• Assess solar irradiance, tilt, shading and array sizing against real site conditions
• Select PV cells, modules and array configurations for reliable output
• Choose inverter and power-conditioning architectures with clipping and efficiency understood
• Size standalone PV systems using cycle life and depth of discharge as design inputs
• Design lithium battery packs with balancing and management systems
• Plan utility-scale storage with thermal runaway mitigation and containerised layouts
• Apply anaerobic digestion fundamentals, digester design and gas handling
• Integrate wind and micro-hydro where the resource justifies them
• Complete wiring, protection, earthing, economics and commissioning
This book is for off-grid builders, energy technicians, project developers and engineering students who need a practical, arithmetic-first approach to renewable and efficient electric power systems. If you are designing sustainable energy access for a community, a facility or a project portfolio, the chapters here give you the sequence and the numbers to do it properly.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Science and Nature
Length15 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Solar, Biogas, and Battery Energy Storage
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: Energy Demand and Load Profiles
71.1 Why Demand Comes First
81.2 Appliance Inventories and Nameplate Versus Real Power
91.3 Duty Cycles, Diversity and Coincidence
101.4 Daily Load Profiles and the 24-Hour Energy Balance
111.5 Seasonal Variation and Design Month Selection
121.6 Estimating Demand Where No Data Exists
131.7 The Completed Load Ledger and Its Handover
14Chapter 2: The Solar Resource
152.1 Irradiance, Irradiation and the Solar Constant
162.2 Sun Position, Declination and Hour Angle
172.3 Tilt, Azimuth and the Plane-of-Array Irradiation
182.4 Shading Analysis and Horizon Profiling
192.5 Typical Meteorological Year Data and Its Limits
202.6 Measuring the Resource On Site
21Chapter 3: PV Cells, Modules and Arrays
223.1 The Photovoltaic Effect and the I-V Curve
233.2 Irradiance and Temperature Effects
243.3 Series and Parallel Configuration and String Voltage
253.4 Mismatch, Bypass Diodes and Partial Shading
263.5 Array Layout, Row Spacing and Ground Coverage
273.6 Module Ratings, Standards and Degradation
28Chapter 4: Inverters and Power Conditioning
294.1 What an Inverter Does and Where It Loses
304.2 Maximum Power Point Tracking
314.3 String Inverters, Microinverters and Hybrid Architectures
324.4 Efficiency Curves, Sizing Ratio and Clipping
334.5 Surge, Starting Loads and Inverter Selection
344.6 Power Quality, Grid Interaction and Anti-Islanding
35Chapter 5: Sizing a Standalone PV System
365.1 The Energy Balance and Derating Chain
375.2 Peak Sun Hours and Array Sizing
385.3 Days of Autonomy and Battery Bank Sizing
395.4 Charge Controller and Array-to-Battery Matching
405.5 Generator and Grid Backup Integration
415.6 A Complete Worked Standalone Sizing
42Chapter 6: Battery Chemistries
436.1 What a Battery Must Do in a Renewable System
446.2 Lead-Acid Behavior and Its Design Limits
456.3 Lithium Iron Phosphate Behavior and Its Design Limits
466.4 Comparing Chemistries on the Design Inputs That Matter
476.5 Other Chemistries and Where They Fit
48Chapter 7: Battery Management and Pack Design
497.1 Cells, Modules and Pack Architecture
507.2 Cell Balancing and State-of-Charge Estimation
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