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Global Renewable Energy Resources

Pages 779-792 | Published online: 19 Aug 2006
 

Renewable energy sources (RES) supply 14% of the total world energy demand. RES are biomass, hydropower, geothermal, solar, wind, and marine energies. The renewables are the primary, domestic and clean or inexhaustible energy resources. The percentage share of biomass was 62.1% of total renewable energy sources in 1995. Large-scale hydropower supplies 20 percent of global electricity. Wind power in coastal and other windy regions is promising as well.

Acknowledgments

This study has been supported by Scientific Research Project (BAP in Turkish initials) of Selcuk University.

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