Some introductory comments to this chapter are in order. Primarily these are to explain what will be found in what follows. As the overall title indicates, this is a coverage of three topics from an engineering perspective for the most part, and they cover a brief summary of technical publications. These topics are issues related to large scale solar power (basically topics that are pertinent to large PV or solar thermal plants), hydrogen generation and use (this includes a review of the current work in hydrogen technology from an engineering standpoint) and solar applications in buildings. All of these contain...