Introduction: The Promise of Renewable Power * Part I: Context * Oil Depletion * Global Climate Change and Renewable Energy: Exploring the Links * Renewable Energy for Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities * Part II: Policies to Develop Renewable Electricity and its Generation Technologies * Danish Wind Power Policies from 1976 to 2004: A Survey of Policy Making and Techno-Economic Innovation * Germany: From a Modest Feed-in Law to a Framework for Transition * The UK Renewables Obligation * The Design and Impacts of the Texas Renewables Portfolio Standard * European Union Policy towards Renewable Power * Part III: Evaluation of Policies and Approaches * Comparing Support for Renewable Power * Renewable Energy: Political Prices or Political Quantities * Tradeable Certificate Systems and Feed-in Tariffs: Expectation Versus Performance * Index
Volkmar Lauber, editor, is professor of political science at the University of Salzburg, Austria.