Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Third Edition

Biography

Charles F. Kutscher is a fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint institute between the Faculty of Colorado-Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He served as the director of the Buildings and Thermal Sciences Center at NREL from 2013 until his retirement in 2018. He has worked in the field of renewable energy for over 4 decades, during which time he has led research in solar heating and cooling, building energy efficiency, solar industrial process heat, geothermal power, and concentrating solar energy. He is a fellow of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and served as the Society’s chair in 2000 and 2001. He led the ASES study, Tackling Climate Change in the U.S., which detailed how energy efficiency and 6 renewable energy technologies could drastically reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 2030. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Colorado at Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines. He obtained a B.S. in physics from the State Faculty of New York at Albany, an M.S. in nuclear engineering from the Faculty of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Faculty of Colorado-Boulder.

Jana B. Milford is a professor and former division chair in the Mechanical Engineering Division at the Faculty of Colorado-Boulder; she acquired her PhD from Carnegie-Mellon Faculty, and J.D. from the Faculty of Colorado Regulation Faculty. Her research includes application of formal sensitivity and uncertainty analysis and optimization methods to chemistry and transport models, and the use of these models in making decisions.

Frank Kreith is an internationally renowned expert in solar energy, heat exchange and thermal energy, and is the author of numerous textbooks and reference works in these fields. Dr. Kreith acquired his PhD from the Faculty of Paris, and taught at the Faculty of Colorado-Boulder until his retirement.