Power Resources category: 2047 books
Renewable Energy Policy and Politics
A handbook for decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Understanding why renewable energy policies succeed and fail is essential for a range of stakeholders in the energy and environmental sectors. Clear information on why and how to secure successful renewable energy markets is much needed. Renewable Energy Policy and Politics meets that need, bringing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
An examination of the greening of the automotive industry by the path dependence of countries and carmakers' trajectories. Three sources of path dependency can be detected: business models, consumer attitudes, and policy regulations. The automobile is changing and the race towards alternative driving systems has started!
by Agnia Grigas
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
As the United States aggressively expands its exports of liquefied natural gas, it stands poised to become an energy superpower. This unanticipated reality is rewriting the conventional rules of intercontinental gas trade and realigning strategic relations among the United States, the European Union, Russia, China and beyond, as Agnia Grigas shows.
Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions
Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined...
Biodiesel
Growing a New Energy Economy, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in the marketplace in the past few years has been...
by Renate Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Because of the major opportunities and risks associated with it, and the complexity of the subject, bioenergy policy has in a short time become a challenging political task for regulators and planners – a task that can only be accomplished through worldwide cooperation and the creation of an international...
Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security
Portfolio Optimization in the Energy Sector: A Tribute to the work of Dr. Shimon Awerbuch
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security is an ideal volume for professionals in academia, industry and government interested in the rapidly evolving area at the nexus between energy and climate change policy. The cutting-edge international contributions allow for a wide coverage of the...
Energy Efficiency
Towards the End of Demand Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Energy Efficiency: Towards the End of Demand Growth is a detailed guide to new energy efficiency technologies and policy frameworks affecting the profitability of efficiency projects. The contributions drawn together by F.P. Sioshansi feature insights from recognized thought leaders, detailed examinations...
Technopolis
Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Six years of UNESCO-World Technopolis Association workshops, held at various world cities and attended by government officials and scholars from nearly all the world’s countries, have resulted in a uniquely complete collection of reports on science park and science city projects in most of those...
Sustainable Fuel For The Future
An In-Depth Guide To Understanding Alternative Fuel Sources, Renewable Energy, Eco Friendly Cars And How To Save The Environment For Generations Yet To Come
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Scientists are developing alternative fuels that can help not only the environment, but also the consumer’s checkbook. The new alternative fuels offer advantages in so many ways that people are really starting to take a look at these as an option over paying astronomical gasoline prices....
by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This volume tackles for the first time in decades the world's gas flaring practices, a difficult, hot-button issue of our time, whose consequences are only just beginning to be understood. The book examines both the technical and environmental aspects of gas flaring, highlights different flare designs,...
by The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What is the future of oil as a primary source of energy? Is the world moving inexorably towards the end of the oil era? This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the future of oil by assessing the present realities and prospects of the oil sector, tracing the growth of alternative and renewable...
Energy Consumption and Autonomous Driving
Proceedings of the 3rd CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This volume collects selected papers of the 3rd CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2014. CESA is the most important automotive electronics conference in France. The topical focus lies on state-of-the-art automotive electronics with respect to energy consumption and autonomous driving. The...
Wind Energy Engineering
A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Wind Energy Engineering: A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines is the most advanced, up-to-date and research-focused text on all aspects of wind energy engineering. Wind energy is pivotal in global electricity generation and for achieving future essential energy demands and targets. In...