The economic competitiveness of renewable energy : pathways to 100% global coverage /
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Changing World
- 1.2. Why Another Book on 100% Renewables?
- 2. Analysis of Today's Energy Situation
- 2.1. Basic Energy Terms
- 2.2. Global Energy Situation
- 2.3. Energy Sectors
- 2.4. Challenges for Fossil Fuels
- 2.4.1. Finiteness of Fossil Fuels Leading to the Peak of Oil and Gas
- 2.4.2. Climate Change Due to Green House Gases - Best Understood by a Journey Through Our Earth's History From Its Origin Until Today
- 2.5. Problems with Nuclear Energy
- 3. 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"
- 3.2.1. Future Lighting: Energy Saving and Better Service
- 3.2.2. Electro-Mobility: Powerful and Halving Consumption (But Only If Electricity Comes From Renewables)
- 3.2.3. Comfortable Houses: Properly Insulated, Facing South (In The Northern Hemisphere) and Producing More Energy than Needed
- 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
- 4. Overview of the Most Important Renewable Energy Technologies
- 4.1. Basics About the Potential of Various Renewable Technologies
- 4.2. Wind Energy
- 4.3. Solar Thermal Collectors and Concentrators
- 4.3.1. Historical Development
- 4.3.2. Solar Thermal Collectors
- 4.3.3. Solar Thermal Concentrating Systems for Electricity Production
- 4.4. Bioenergy: Biomass and Fuel
- 4.5. Photovoltaics
- 4.6. Other Renewable Technologies
- 4.6.1. Hydropower
- 4.6.2. Ocean Energy (Wave and Tidal)
- 4.6.3. Geothermal Energy
- 4.6.4. Heat Pump
- 5. PV Market Development
- 5.1. Strategic and Consumer Goods in Society and Why Strategic Ones Need Initial Support
- 5.1.1. Consumer and Strategic Goods - a Message to Economists
- 5.1.2. Market Pull Versus Technology Push - What is the Best Support Program?
- 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
- 5.5.1. Bottom-up Epia Market Forecast (2013 to 2017)
- 5.5.2. Top-down Epia Market Forecast ("Set for 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
- 5.8.1. Smart Grids as the Future Low Voltage Grid, Distribution and Super Grids
- 5.8.2. Supporting Measures for the Future Energy Infrastructure
- 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
- 6.2.1. Poly Silicon
- 6.2.2. Crystal Making and Wafer Production
- 6.2.3. Crystalline Silicon Wafer Based Solar Cells
- 6.2.4. Stringing and Module Making
- 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
- 6.6.1. DC
- AC Inverters
- 6.6.2. BOS
- Balance of Systems
- 6.7. Marimekko Plot for PV Systems and Summary Chart for Cell Efficiencies
- 7. 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
- 7.4.1. Historical Development
- 7.4.2. Differentiated PEC for c-Si and Thin-Film Products
- 7.4.3. PV Systems Analysis
- 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
- 8. Future Technology Development
- 8.1. General Remarks on Future Technology Developments
- 8.2. Photovoltaics
- 8.2.1. PV Product Portfolio
- 8.2.2. System Price Development
- 8.3. Wind Energy
- 8.4. Solar Thermal
- 8.5. Other Renewables
- 8.6. Other System Components
- 8.6.1. Storage
- 8.6.2. Transmission
- 8.6.3. System Services
- 8.7. Importance of the Renewable Energy Portfolio
- in Particular Solar and Wind
- 9. Future Energy Projections
- The 150 Peta-Watt-hour Challenge
- 9.1. Historical Development
- 9.2. Some Future Projections and Scenarios by Others
- 9.2.1. Global Projections
- 9.2.2. Local Scenarios
- 9.3. Global Energy Scenarios and Market Development of the Major Renewables from the Author's Point of View
- 9.3.1. Simplified Projection for the Overall Picture
- 9.3.2. Development of PV Market
- 9.3.3. Industrial and Company Policy Related Aspects for PV Industry
- 9.3.4. CPV (Concentrated PV)/CSP (Concentrated Solar Power)
- 9.3.5. Wind
- 9.3.6. Solar Thermal
- 9.3.7. Development of the Other Renewable Sources
- 10. Likelihood of and Timeline for a World Powered by 100% Renewable Energy
- 10.1. Likelihood of a 100% Renewable World
- 10.2. Global Network or Local Autonomy?
- 10.2.1. Concept of a Worldwide Super Grid Versus the Hydrogen Economy
- 10.2.2. New Horizons with Optimizing Regional 100% Renewable Energy Supply
- 10.2.3. Local Autonomy: Silver Bullet for the Decentralized Private and SME Sector Plus the Centralized Energy Intensive Industry
- 10.3. Timeline for a 100% Renewable World
- 11. Conclusion: The 100% Renewable Energy Puzzle.