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In the book, '',听Dr Spataru shows that islands represent great opportunity for demonstrating energy solutions, offering various advantages as laboratory for studying renewable energy sources. In the same time islands can be a great source for export to mainland or other neighbouring islands and countries. It provides an understanding of current status in islands worldwide and potential future solutions with several examples assessing the technical and economic potential.

It creates an inventory of existing information and recent research, and compiling a comprehensive guide, providing a baseline understanding of developments and challenges on islands. The book is essential reading for researchers, policymakers, professionals, students and so on, who are interested in the area of energy systems, sustainability, islands. It provides an interdisciplinary approach and insights to current research and opportunities and into the type of changes needs to be made to make islands the 鈥渆nergy hubs鈥� of the future, the 鈥渉ottest energy centred points鈥�, the 鈥済olden spots鈥� for sustainability.

Dr Spataru argues that there is an urgent need to create an inventory of existing information and recent research, and compiling a comprehensive guide, to provide a baseline understanding of developments and challenges on islands worldwide, and a need for sharing practices and innovative solutions.

Author, Dr Catalina Spataru, said听

鈥�Islands are facing challenging times and are among the most vulnerable to climate change.听 Even today many of the islands have considerable energy supply problems and relies on oil-based power generation. On the other hand, due to their diverse characteristics, islands could be excellent demonstration sites and vehicle for diffusion of innovative energy solutions that can effectively replace the conventional methods鈥�.

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About the author

Dr Catalina Spataru is an Associate Professor at 果冻影院 Energy Institute and Course Director of MRes Energy Demand Studies. Her expertise is in whole energy system dynamics and resource nexus. Her activities range from theoretical investigations to implementation research and the development of mathematical models.听She is the author of the books听听and T听, and co-editor of the听. She has participated and lead numerous research and consultancy projects funded by industry and research councils. Topics focused on urban development, technologies for decarbonisation, sustainability goals, cities, islands, infrastructure, energy networks, resource efficiency.听She teaches听Smart Energy Systems听Module,听Metrics, Modelling and Visualisation of the Resource Nexus听Module and听Communication Skills, providing students with an understanding of the methods, concepts and practice of whole energy systems, offering a combination of theory, modelling interactive exercises and case studies.听She is the regional representative of the IEEE Women in Power (Region 8 鈥� Europe).听