The book discusses about supplying electric energy from solar-wind based hybrid resources to remotely located communities detached from the main grid line in Ethiopia. The communities in mind are one of two types: the majority of the poor population residing in the countryside; and the people relocated by the Government from the overused and dry regions to the relatively productive and fertile ones in line with the long-term poverty reduction plan. The study was begun by investigating wind energy and solar energy potentials at four geographically different locations in Ethiopia by compiling...