Women in Renewable Energy [Hardcover]

This book provides a breadth and depth of innovative and impactful research led by women investigators in the field of renewable energy. This book showcases the diversity of renewable energy solutions being deployed commercially in the United States and internationally, including new research underway. The chapters collectively cover the entire spectrum of large, utility scale to small, distributed-scale renewable energy technologies, as well as new operating practices in buildings necessary to fully capture the value of renewable energy. The chapters also discuss technical and market considerations of renewable energy resources, plus customer attitudes and acceptance. These topics touch on many of the challenges facing the world today and these solutions by women researchers are valuable for their technical excellence and their non-traditional perspective. 

Introduction.- Pioneers in Renewable Energy.- Solar Photovoltaics.- Clean Energy Transition in the Caribbean Islands.- Building Load Flexibility for Facilitating Renewable Energy Integration.- Customer Sited Distributed Energy Resources.- Customer Understanding of Renewable Energy.- Bioenergy.- Conclusion.

Ms. Wang is a Technical Director at Energy Solutions and has been with the company since 2011. She develops and leads demand management projects for the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) team and drives new projects development in DERs. In 2021, she served as a  contributing author of A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings for the U.S. Dept. of Energy,  which quantifies the national potential, and discusses the challenges and opportunities of developing and deploying efficient, smart, connected, and flexible building equipment and controls as a clean energy resource by 2030. lÓ5