RES Types

Renewable Energy Sources are considered the following:

• Wind Energy: the energy generated by harvesting wind flow
• Solar Energy: the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power
• Hydro power: power derived from the force or energy of falling water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes such as electric power generation.
• Wave Energy: energy captured by sea surface waves to do useful work such as electricity generation
• Tidal Energy: energy generated by harnessing undersea currents with the use of either tidal barrages or undersea tidal turbines
• Geothermal: energy created by harnessing geothermal energy from the earth

• Biomass: the term “biomass” refers to organic matter that has stored energy through the process of photosynthesis. It exists in one form as plants and may be transferred through the food chain to animals’ bodies and their wastes, all of which can be converted for everyday human use through processes such as combustion, which releases the carbon dioxide stored in the plant material. In other words, biomass power is the use of biomass to generate electricity. Biopower system technologies include direct-firing, cofiring, gasification, pyrolysis, and anaerobic digestion. Despite the fact that there is CO₂ exhausts during combustion, it balances CO₂ captured by the plants during photosynthesis (closed CO₂ cycle) and therefore it is condidered as another renewable energy source.