Renewable Energy

The need for electric power may be analyzed by a fairly intensive and deep study, which invariably requires life cycle analysis of the society in terms of energy use and conservation, industrial and household development, population and industry distribution, export and import of electricity, etc. In contemporary NE-SL, however, the very basics in a societal infrastructure such as industry, highways and education system, are either non-existent or in primitive form. And due to the on-going war in this region, important data for electricity power sector decision-making (such as income and purchasing power of the population, planned transportation and highway infrastructure, environmentally sensitive areas,meteorological data, etc.) are either not available or inadequate.The objective of the book is to demonstrate that to achieve a sustainable electricity generation for NE-SL, in addition to utilizing the abundant intermittent resources NE-SL has, namely solar and wind, biomass production must be given utmost priority. The scope of this book is limited to design of a mixture of power plants in the cogeneration system, not involving the other aspects of electricity sector such as transmission and distribution.Limitation of this work: due to the ongoing civil war in the region, there is no recent data available about energy production and consumption in this region; the data used in this chapter is from 1994 to 1996.