A Brief Study into Renewable Energy Technologies

¹ Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
² Nile University of Nigeria, Mechanical Engineering Department, FCT Abuja, Nigeria
³ Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ibadan, Ibadan 200281, Nigeria
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, INTI International University, Malaysia
⁶ Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle, NE7 7XA, United Kingdom

^* Corresponding author: ikumapayi.omolayo@abuad.edu.ng

Abstract

The massive increase in energy consumption, especially over the past several years, has raised fears that the world’s fuel and other resource reserves would be drained in the coming years. Over the years, low-cost, long-term energy has been viewed as the foundation of any country’s social and economic success. Nonetheless, in recent decades, a bigger section of the population of developing economies has had limited access to inexpensive and sustainable energy, contributing greatly to these countries’ poor economic and social growth. This study was therefore a review of the various sources of energy and their applications.