Renewable Energy and Sustainable Buildings: Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress

Part I. Chapter 1. Leading Role of ISESCO in the field of Renewable Energy and Promotion of the Concept of Green and Sustainable Cities in the Islamic World.- Chapter 2. Energy Policies at Crossroads - Will Europe's 2030 targets and framework be in line with the Paris Climate Agreement?.- Chapter 3. Field Test, Dynamic Simulation and Fatigue Analysis of a Small Wind Turbine Operating in a Highly Turbulent Environment.- Chapter 4. Evaluation of Performance Losses and Degradation of Aged Crystalline-Si Photovoltaic Modules Installed in Minas Gerais (Brasil).- Chapter 5. Plug&Play: self-sufficient technological devices for outdoor spaces to mitigate the UHI effect.- Chapter 6. Smart houses and regions as building blocks for 100% renewable energy globally.- Chapter 7.Climate Change: An Overview of Potential Health Imapcts Associated With Climate Change Environmental Driving Forces.- Chapter 8. Simultaneous clean water and power production from seawater using osmosis: process simulation and techno-economic analysis.- Chapter 9. Cooling of PV Panels for Performance Enhancement of Grid-Connected Systems.- Chapter 10. Plasmonic Coupling Enhanced Absorption and Fluorescence Emission in Thin Film Luminescent Solar Concentrator .- Chapter 11. Addressing the Energy Challenges: Needs and Perspectives.- Chapter 12. Architectural Education for Sustainability.- Chapter 13. Dutch efforts towards sustainable schools.- Chapter 14. Demand side energy flexibility management of office buildings.- Chapter 15. Toward Green Building and Eco - Cities in UAE.- Chapter 18. Optimizing building form for integration of solar photovoltaic in the design of a textile industry in Katsina, Nigeria.- Chapter 19. Storage for Community Electricity: a comparison between batteries and mini Pumped Hydro.- Chapter 20. Urban microclimate and thermal comfort in the modernist social housing districts of Rome: the combined effect of built form and urban materials.- Chapter 21. Performance Improvement of Contra-Rotating Small Hydroturbine.- Chapter 22. Performance Improvement of Contra-Rotating Small Hydroturbine.- Chapter 23. Solar Power Satellites: Reconsideration as Renewable Energy Source Based on Novel Approaches.- Chapter 24. Effects of mirror geometry on the optical efficiency of a Linear Fresnel Reflector (LFR).- Chapter 25. The energy transition in Morocco.- Chapter 26. Energetic performance optimization of a H2O-LiBr absorption chiller powered by evacuated tube solar collector.- Chapter 27. Design and construction of a small Standalone Wind Turbine using Scrap Materials.- Chapter 28. Evolution of photovoltaic-thermal hybrid solar technology for the tropics: a case study of Malaysia.- Chapter 29. Feasibility Study into Design, Development and Testing of an Indirect Multi-Rack Solar Dryer for Agricultural Products.- Chapter 30. Production of hydrogen using solar powered electrolysis.- Chapter 31. City of Sydney decentralized renewable energy master plan.- Chapter 32. WorkShop "Smart Energy Cities and EU GCC Cooperation Opportunities" within the WREC 2018.- Chatper 33. A pricing method for the electricity from renewables to be used after feed-in tariffs.- Chapter 34. Disclosing the immaterial resilience of sustainable architecture for a new renovation processes of the inland Mediterranean areas.- Chapter 35. Disclosing the immaterial resilience of sustainable architecture for a new renovation processes of the inland Mediterranean areas.- Chapter 35. Application of DC-DC Boost Converter to Photovoltaic Pumping System.- Chapter 36. The impact of dust's physical properties on photovoltaic modules outcomes.- Chapter 37. Waste-to-energy solutions in Uppsala, Sweden.- Chapter 38. Geo-climatic early-design tools and indicators.- Chapter 39. New horizons for renewable energies in Morocco and Africa.- Chapter 40. Developing energy control and optimisation methodology for built environment of the future.- PArt II. Chapter 41. Performance Optimization of Concentrated Photovolta