This comprehensive textbook, now in its third edition, incorporates significant improvements based on the readers’ suggestions and demands. It provides engineering students with the principles of different types of grid connected renewable energy sources and, in particular, the detailed underpinning knowledge required to understand the different types of grid connected wind turbines. UNIQUE FEATURES Provides 270 illustrations The figures are accompanied with brief descriptions along with the legends, so that the reader is not required to look back for the textual descriptions Incorporates graphs and tables appropriately Includes ample of worked-out examples and software- based computer simulation examples to enhance learning Includes a chapter on small wind turbine technologies, so far not available in India so comprehensively NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION Revised Chapter 1 providing considerable amount of current information and technologies related to various types of renewable energy technologies One new chapter on ‘Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems’ (Chapter 15) TARGET AUDIENCE B.Tech/M.Tech (EEE/ECE/ME) Diploma engineering programmes