Book description
The world is at the crossroads of either quickly changing the energy picture towards implementing efficient renewable energy sources or postponing this process by another generation. Based on the author's more than 30 years industrial experience, this book gives a set of assumptions by extrapolating known technology developments and shows that 100% coverage by renewable technology of the global energy needs is much more probable than previously argued.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Analysis of Today’s Energy Situation
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Chapter 3: The Importance of Energy Efficiency Measures
- 3.1 Traditional Extrapolation of Future Energy Demands or Alternatively “The Same or with Renewables Even Better Quality of Life with Much Less Energy”
- 3.2 Decrease in End Energy Needs with a “Better Quality of Life”
- 3.3 Today’s Energy Needs with Known Energy Efficiency Measures
- 3.4 Support Mechanisms to Facilitate New Products: Ban The Old or Facilitate The New Ones
- Chapter 4: Overview of the Most Important Renewable Energy Technologies
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Chapter 5: PV Market Development
- 5.1 Strategic and Consumer Goods in Society and Why Strategic Ones Need Initial Support
- 5.2 PV Applications and History
- 5.3 Historical PV Market Development
- 5.4 Feed-in Tariffs – Sustainable Versus Boom and Bust Market Growth
- 5.5 PV Market Development Towards 2020
- 5.6 Total Budget for Feed-in Tariff Support as Positive Investment for National Economies and Merit Order Effects for Electricity Customers
- 5.7 New Electricity Market Design for Increasing Numbers of Variable Renewable Energy Systems
- 5.8 Developments for the Future Energy Infrastructure
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Chapter 6: PV Value Chain and Technology
- 6.1 Basics of Solar Radiation and Conversion in PV Cells
- 6.2 Value Chain for Crystalline Silicon PV Systems
- 6.3 Value Chain for Thin-Film Technologies
- 6.4 Concentrated PV (CPV) and III–V Compound Solar Cells
- 6.5 New Technologies (Dye, OPV, and Novel Concepts)
- 6.6 Other Cost Components for PV Systems
- 6.7 Marimekko Plot for PV Systems and Summary Chart for Cell Efficiencies
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Chapter 7: The Astonishing Predictive Power of Price Experience Curves
- 7.1 Basics about Price Experience Curves
- 7.2 Relevant Price Experience Curves Comparable to PV
- 7.3 Lesson Learned from PECs Discussed
- 7.4 Price Experience Curve for PV Modules
- 7.5 Price Experience Curve for DC/AC inverters
- 7.6 Price Experience Curve for Wind Energy and Other Relevant Products for a 100% Renewable World
- Chapter 8: Future Technology Development
- Chapter 9: Future Energy Projections – The 150 Peta-Watt-hour Challenge
- Chapter 10: Likelihood of and Timeline for a World Powered by 100% Renewable Energy
- Chapter 11: Conclusion: The 100% Renewable Energy Puzzle
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy: Pathways to 100% Global Coverage
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Scrivener
- ISBN: 9781118237908
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