Renewable Energy and Power Supply Challenges for Rural Regions

Access to power and electricity is a vital resource for businesses and for sustaining the livelihood of consumers. However, producing reliable and renewable energy and distributing it in rural areas can be challenging. Such activities require special technical support measures for organizing a highly efficient and cost-effective production process. Renewable Energy and Power Supply Challenges for Rural Regions provides innovative insights into energy production, consumption, and distribution in rural regions and examines sustainable and renewable power sources. The content within this publication explores such topics as renewable energy, electrical network, and thermal energy storage. It is designed for electricians, policymakers, state officials, professionals, researchers, and academicians.

Valeriy Kharchenko is a researcher and consultant in a wide range of energy saving fields, including energy policy at national and international level, energy RTD strategy, RUE and RES. His education includes: 1994 - 1995 Tacis Training Programme (Manager in energy); 1994 Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan (professor); 1987 State Higher Training Courses on Patenting and Invention (Certificate with distinction); 1987 Institute of Electronics, Moscow (Doctor of Engineering Sciences Degree); 1969 Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk (Candidate of Chemistry Degree); 1956 - 1961 Tashkent Polytechnic Institute (Technical University) (Тechnology engineer). His international activity experience: 1994-1996 - counterpart expert in the Project of EU “Monitoring and evaluation of the energy (non nuclear) projects implementation in Uzbekistan” (carried out by European companies); 1998-2000 - the expert for evaluation of submitted proposals INTAS (ID 716); 1996-2000 - senior expert of the Central Asia Energy Advisory Group (a project under the EC DG XVII's SYNERGY Programme) with obligations included duties for formation of expert groups, peering and estimation of their reports and preparing general Interim and Final annual reports; 2000-2001 years -UNDP Program, Global Environmental Facility, Government of Uzbekistan (Joinnt Project UZB/98/G42/A/1G/99), expert at the premises. Among his obligations are evaluation and reception of reports of local expert groups on various aspects of the organization of heating and hot water supply system of Tashkent city Area of Scientific activity; development of new technological approaches for superpure silicon fabrication; improvement of silicon epitaxial layers technology; application of silicon layers in various devices, including PVcells; application of installations on the basis of solar cells in practice; development of new approaches for production of silicon for solar cells; application of a solar energy for electricity and heat producrion; participation in a number of international projects of the Eurocommission and UNDP on an energy policy, energy saving (RUE), and renewable energy sources (RES); works on increase of efficiency of use of energy in systems of heating and hot water supply. He currently holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer of the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center. He is the official reviewer of a number of international journals, including Solat Energy, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Renewable Energy, member of the editorial boards of several international journals, honorary professor of the Institute of Hydropower and Renewable Energy of the National Research University MEI. Under his editorship, a number of books have been published by IGI Global (USA).

Pandian Vasant is a senior lecturer at Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Malaysia. He holds PhD (UNEM, Costa Rica) in Computational Intelligence, MSc (UMS, Malaysia, Engineering Mathematics) and BSc (2nd Class Upper-Hons in Mathematics, UM, Malaysia) in Mathematics. He has co-authored research papers and articles in national journals, international journals, conference proceedings, conference paper presentation, and special issues lead guest editor, lead guest editor for book chapters, edited books, and keynote lecture. (218 publications indexed in SCOPUS). In the year 2009, Dr. Pandian Vasant was awarded top reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), awarded outstanding reviewer in the year 2015 for ASOC (Elsevier) journal and Top reviewer for Sentinels of Science: Computer Science (Oct. 2015 - Sept. 2016). He has 26 years of working experience at the various universities from 1989-2017. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of IJCO and IJEOE, Member of American Mathematical Society, MERLIN, and NAVY Research Groups.