ENG4003-N Research and Enterprise Module

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The Role of Renewable
energy in this modern era

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Annotated bibliography
Introduction
Renewable energy is a kind of energy which is collected from various renewable
resources like the solar system and wind energy. This type of energy system provides
energy into the main four sectors such as air, water heating, transportation, rural and
electricity generation. The main objective of this report is to understand the
fundamental concept of renewable energy and the role of this energy in this modern
generation. It is observed that most of the energy is generated with the help of
renewable system and around 70% of electricity has produced by the solar renewable
system. Almost 1 million people on the U.K. are using renewable energy system because
they are very efficient and more effective.
Academic general articles
Jaramillo-Nieves, L. and Del Río, P., 2010. The contribution of renewable energy
sources to the sustainable development of islands: An overview of the literature
and a research agenda. Sustainability, 2(3), pp.783-811.
The title of this article is Contribution of Renewable Energy Sources to the Sustainable
Development of Islands: An Overview of the Literature and a Research Agenda that was
written loraima jaramillo and Pablo del rio. According to this journal paper, renewable
energy resources have the ability to contribute to the economic, environmental energy
and social sustainability of Small Island (Jaramillo-Nieves, and Del Río, 2010). The main
purpose of this paper is to analyse the importance of renewable energy in this advanced
generation. According to the author, RES is very popular today because most of the
energy is generated with the help of renewable energy resources like solar, wind, rain,
and geothermal heat. In which the author used the qualitative research process and
relevant information is collected from various resources like a research paper, online
websites and books. The main drawback of this paper is that the researcher did not use
a quantitative approach to analyse the importance of this advanced energy generation
technology.
Panwar, N.L., Kaushik, S.C. and Kothari, S., 2011. Role of renewable energy sources
in environmental protection: a review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Reviews, 15(3), pp.1513-1524.
The title of this journal article is the role of renewable energy source in environmental
protection that was produced by the N.L.Panwar, S.C.Kaushik, and SurendraKothari.
According to the Surendra Kothari, the renewable techniques are defined as a source of
energy and use of this energy has increased by the 30% between 2014 and 2016
(Panwar, Kaushik, and Kothari, 2011). It is identified by the authors that there are main
two primary sources of solar energy such as light and heat and Sun is one of the
important key element of any renewable energy resources. The main purpose of this
research paper is to obtain the role of renewable energy sources for the protection of
the environment and their impacts. According to this paper, the sunlight and heat both
are absorbed and transformed with the help of various processes for example biomass
technique and wind energy. Both these are very common approaches for the generation
of electricity by using renewable energy sources. The main benefit of this article is that

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the researcher uses both qualitative and quantitative research analysis for
understanding the concept of renewable energy. But the author did not provide the
negative impacts of this advanced energy system by which the reader cannot enhance
their knowledge in the area of the energy system.
Denis, G.S. and Parker, P., 2009. Community energy planning in Canada: The role
of renewable energy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 13(8), pp.2088-
2095.
The title of this article is Community energy planning in Canada: The role of renewable
energy that was developed by the Genevieve. Denis, and PaulParker. The main goal of
this journal article is to identify and analyze the concept of renewable energy and
working principle of this type of energy source with their importance (Denis, and
Parker, 2009). According to the author, the renewable energy source is very popular in
Canada that has the ability to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gas. In this journal
paper researched used both primary and secondary data analysis process to enhance
the effectiveness of the research. Writers did not provide an overview of the different
types of resources which are used in renewable energy.
Wang, W., Chen, Z. and Zha, H., 2016. Role of Renewable Energy. Smart Grid
Handbook, 12(1), pp.1-20.
This article was written by the Weisheng Wang Ziyu Chen and Hao Zha in the year 2016
which is completely based on the renewable energy system. According to the Weisheng,
there are various characteristics as compare to the fossil energy for example wind and
solar energy systems ( Wang, Chen, and Zha, 2016). It is identified by the author the rate
of renewable energy is growing rapidly that impacts on the smart grid technology. The
main aim of this investigation is to describe the basic concept and characteristics of
renewable energy technologies and their impacts on smart grid technologies. With the
help of this article, readers can understand the importance of a renewable energy
system with their advantages and disadvantages. This paper does not provide the future
scope of the renewable energy source and they used only qualitative analysis processes
that provide only theoretical information about the research topic.
Jebli, M.B., Youssef, S.B. and Ozturk, I., 2016. Testing the environmental Kuznets
curve hypothesis: The role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption
and trade in OECD countries. Ecological Indicators, 60, pp.824-831.
The title of this journal article is testing environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: The
role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and trade in OECD countries
that was printed by three writers such as MehdiBen Jebli, Simon Youssef, and
IlhanOzturk. According to the author, the non-renewable energy increases with the CO2
emission that means the emission of CO2 gas is directly proportional to the renewable
energy (Jebli, Youssef, and Ozturk, 2016). This journal paper identified the relationship
between GDP, CO2 emission, renewable and non-renewable energy consumptions. With
the help of this research paper, readers can analyse the importance of renewable and
non-renewable energy consumptions in the OECD. In which a survey is conducted by
the researcher to analysis the views of other experts and participants.
Denholm, P., Ela, E., Kirby, B. and Milligan, M., 2010. The role of energy storage
with renewable electricity generation.UNLV, 10(1), pp. 4-6.