Not many researchers who spent years working on heat transfer equations end up writing an Elsevier book on global power systems. Belyakov is among them.
Elsevier, an imprint of Academic Press (2019), publishes this book. Current state, future challenges, and outlook on sustainable generation of power. Thermal Power, NUCLEAR, Hydro, Wind Power, Solar Power, Bio energy, Geothermal Power, Ocean energy. They are discussed one by one, and the book does not leave them alone but also brings together the electricity markets and the environment. The Nikolay Belyakov Sustainable Power Generation book is sold through Elsevier, ScienceDirect, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and a number of other platforms internationally.
Most energy books have a clear point of view before the first chapter starts. Some are written to argue for nuclear. Others center the case for renewables. Some are organized entirely around a policy position. The Nikolay Belyakov Sustainable Power Generation book does not do that. It is a technical reference. The goal is clarity, not persuasion.
Each generation of technology gets its own treatment. Wind and solar are handled separately, which sounds obvious, but many books bundle them together and lose the technical and market differences between them in the process. The section on ocean energy conversion covers territory that most comparable volumes leave out entirely. Electricity markets get dedicated coverage too, which turns out to be useful for engineers and researchers who understand generation technology well but have limited exposure to how power actually gets priced and traded day to day.
The final chapters deal with future sustainable power systems. The tone there is no different from the rest of the book. Measured, data-grounded, not prescriptive. Belyakov lays out trajectories and identifies constraints. He does not tell readers what to conclude from them. That approach keeps the book useful longer than most. Arguments age. Data and technical description, when done carefully, do not.
ISBN 978-0-12-817012-0. Print and digital copies through Elsevier, ScienceDirect, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Perlego, and OverDrive.
Belyakov’s route into energy writing ran through applied mathematics, not journalism or policy.
He holds an applied math bachelor’s degree from Moscow State Technical University of Bauman in Moscow. His field of research was heat transfer at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. In particular, he studied the flow of heat in a system composed of imperfectly connected solids. His 2012 dissertation came out of that work. It is narrow, technical research that takes years to do properly and rarely gets cited outside the field. But it is exactly the kind of foundation that shows up later when someone writes about thermal power systems with more precision than most general references manage.
Business education at the University of St. Gallen came after that. Then GE, where he worked in project management, sales, customer evaluation, and engineering roles tied to energy and industrial systems. Then Hilti, where the work shifted to thermal and renewable power business development across global market segments. His current role is at SIBUR. It is a large Russian petrochemical organization. The work there covers corporate project management, digitalization, sales, marketing, business process work, and sustainability programs. This work on sustainability includes the usage of recycled materials as well as sustainable product development.
In 2017, Nikolay Belyakov received recognition in the REN21 Global Status Report, and in 2018, 2019, and 2021. REan is the network that makes the renewable energy overview, which is used as a working reference by governments and energy institutions. Being named in one edition can happen. Four times points to something more deliberate.
ORCID 0009-0009-7529-7877. His research profiles are on Google Scholar and ResearchGate. Before the Elsevier book, he published technical papers in Russian-language academic journals on heat transfer and friction. That earlier work feeds directly into the engineering depth that runs through the Nikolay Belyakov Sustainable Power Generation book, particularly in the thermal sections.
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