Abstract
Sustainable energy is a significant and focal aspect of sustainability, an important consideration for human development and activity. Sustainable energy is of importance because of the broad and growing nature of energy use, there are numerous environmental impacts associated with energy systems and the significance of energy to living standards and economic development. Numerous conditions are necessary to attain or shift toward sustainable energy, including obtaining sustainable energy resources, employing advantageous energy carriers, boosting efficiencies of energy systems, mitigating lifetime environmental impacts of energy systems, and addressing nontechnical aspects of sustainable energy, such as living standards and lifestyles, economics and affordability, and societal acceptability and equity. This chapter describes sustainability, energy and its utilization, sustainable energy, and sustainable energy methods and technologies. The necessary conditions for sustainable energy are examined in detail. Finally, a sustainable energy evaluation of a particular energy system, the net-zero energy building, is presented.
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