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by Winfried Hoffmann
The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy: Pathways to 100% Global Coverage
Cover
Half Title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 The Changing World
1.2 Why Another Book on 100% Renewables?
Chapter 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
2.5 Problems with Nuclear Energy
Chapter 3: The 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”
3.3 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
Chapter 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
4.4 Bioenergy: Biomass and Fuel
4.5 Photovoltaics
4.6 Other Renewable Technologies
Chapter 5: PV Market Development
5.1 Strategic and Consumer Goods in Society and Why Strategic Ones Need Initial Support
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
5.6 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
Chapter 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
6.3 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
6.7 Marimekko Plot for PV Systems and Summary Chart for Cell Efficiencies
Chapter 7: The 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
7.5 Price Experience Curve for DC/AC inverters
7.6 Price Experience Curve for Wind Energy and Other Relevant Products for a 100% Renewable World
Chapter 8: Future Technology Development
8.1 General Remarks on Future Technology Developments
8.2 Photovoltaics
8.3 Wind Energy
8.4 Solar Thermal
8.5 Other Renewables
8.6 Other System Components
8.7 Importance of the Renewable Energy Portfolio – in Particular Solar and Wind
Chapter 9: Future Energy Projections – The 150 Peta-Watt-hour Challenge
9.1 Historical Development
9.2 Some Future Projections and Scenarios by Others
9.3 Global Energy Scenarios and Market Development of the Major Renewables from the Author’s Point of View
Chapter 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?
10.3 Timeline for a 100% Renewable World
Chapter 11: Conclusion: The 100% Renewable Energy Puzzle
References
Index
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