Decentralized Energy

ISBN-13: 9780367019372 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str.

Opis

The question of decentralization of energy sources goes to the heart of the energy choices before the United States, but conflicting viewpoints have clouded the issue in recent years. This volume cuts through the rhetoric to address specific issues involving local control over energy sources and energy uses, including environmental aspects of decentralized and centralized energy supply systems; energy conservation and its relation to energy decentralization; behavior, values, and energy choices; institutional issues affecting the commercialization of solar energy, especially in cities; issues of decentralized and conventional energy supply choices in Sweden; and methods by which decentralized energy systems have been studied. Most importantly, each of the papers in this collection considers social and institutional concerns as well as technical and economic issues.

Spis treści

Introduction -- The Policy Framework -- Energy Conservation and Energy Decentralization: Issues and Prospects -- Decentralized Renewables: The Environmental Dimension -- Comparative Analysis of Decentralized Energy Studies -- Institutional Experience -- Dueling the Devil in the Energy Wars -- Part 3 Action Programs -- Building an Equitable Solar Future: A Primer on How Not to Bungle the Energy Transition -- International Perspective -- Sweden Beyond Oil: Nuclear Commitments and Solar Options