This book digs into the complexities of energy management and provides a comprehensive guide to comprehending and putting sustainable activities into practice. The gap between fundamental energy concepts and the most recent technological developments that are transforming the global energy scene is bridged by this development. This book provides readers with the tools necessary to address the issues of energy management in the 21st century by integrating theoretical ideas with applications that are in the real world.

Dr. Chaouki Ghenai is a Professor at the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, College of Engineering; Director of the Renewable Energy Laboratory, Research Institute for Sciences and Engineering; Chair of the Energy and Climate Change, Sustainability Office; and Director of Strategic Partnerships Office, Chancellor Office. Dr. Ghenai is a Senior Fellow for Energy Strategy and Policy, New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, Washington DC, USA. Dr. Ghenai was listed in the world’s top 2% Scientists in Energy (career and single year) – Mechanical Engineering & Transport (Enabling & Strategic Technologies). Dr. Ghenai received his PhD and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Orleans University, Orleans, France, and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Constantine University, Constantine, Algeria. Before Joining the University of Sharjah, Dr. Ghenai was an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida and Project Manager at the Applied Research Centre, Miami, Florida. He also worked as a post doc at Cornel University (Ithaca, New York), Kansas State University (Manhattan, Kansas), and University of California Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California). He received several teaching and research awards including Distinguished Faculty Research Award, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE (2018 and 2021), Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA (2010), Dubai Award for Sustainable Transport (2019), 7th Sharjah Sustainability Award , and 6th Sharjah Sustainability Award (Green Campus). Dr. Ghenai has published more than 250 Scopus research papers in technical journals, book chapters, and books. He is the author of the Fundamental Principles of Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Value Chain, 2025 (Springer Nature) and editor of five books in Sustainability and Energy: (1) Sustainable Development: Energy, Engineering and Technology-manufacturing and Environment, (2) Sustainable Alternative Syngas Fuel, (3) Sustainable Air Conditioning Systems, (4) Sustainable Development: Education, Business and Management-Architecture and Building Construction-Agriculture and Food security, and (5) Sustainable Development: Policy and Urban Development: Tourism, Life Sciences, Management, and Environment. His research interests are renewable energy (solar, wind, biomass, and fuel cell); energy efficiency and electrification (building, transportation, industry); clean energy transition; decarbonization, digitalization and decentralization of the energy systems; digitalization (AI and ML for energy systems, energy forecasting, an digital twin); combustion (solid, liquid an gas fuels); alternative and renewable fuels (biogas, syngas, bio-oil, biodiesel, green hydrogen); clean combustion technologies; waste to energy (pyrolysis, gasification, anaerobic digestion); agrivoltaics; sustainability; eco-design; energy-water nexus; AI-Energy Nexus; energy planning and climate change mitigation assessment; energy strategy and policy, modelling and simulation of micro gird power systems, air pollution and climate actions simulations.