The Solar Economy

CHAPTER	9
Exploiting solar energy

ANY STRATEGY FOR an across-the-board introduction of solar resources will be inappropriate or limited in scope if it does not also provide for the strategies of individual energy companies. There is a wide variety across the industry in terms of the way that these companies are responding to change and to new challenges. Some are looking to the oil fields of the Caucasus rather than those of the Middle East; others are seeking to tap ‘non-conventional’ fossil fuel reserves, whatever it may cost; others still are refocusing from oil to gas; some are diversifying their businesses into areas other than energy. A few are thinking further ahead and beginning to diversify into renewable energy by starting up ...