Renewable Energy

Discover key titles on renewable energy resources, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

Updated January 2, 2026
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Charged : a history of batteries and lessons for a clean energy future /
Turner, James Morton,
"Few technologies are more important to unlocking a clean-energy future than batteries. Batteries will help store electricity from solar panels and wind turbines. Batteries will help improve the reliability, versatility, and efficiency of the electric grid. And batteries will power a new generation...
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
MacKay, David Jc
Paper Book
The enlightening, best-selling book on understanding sustainable energy and how we can make energy plans that add up. If you've ever wondered how much energy we use, and where it comes from - and where it could come from - but are fed up with all the hot air and 'greenwash',...
Energy revolution : the physics and the promise of efficient technology
Prentiss, Mara Goff.
Paper Book
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed-but it can be wasted. The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy, including 80 percent of the energy used in transportation. So the nation has a tremendous opportunity to develop a sensible energy policy based on benefits and costs. But to do...
Short circuiting policy : interest groups and the battle over clean energy and climate policy in the American states /
Stokes, Leah Cardamore,
Paper Book
In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar...

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