Dedication
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
- Chapter 2: Analysis of Today’s Energy Situation
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 9: Future Energy Projections – The 150 Peta-Watt-hour Challenge
- Chapter 10: Likelihood of and Timeline for a World Powered by 100% Renewable Energy
- Chapter 11: Conclusion: The 100% Renewable Energy Puzzle
- References
- Index
To our grandson Elija and all other grandchildren around the globe for a future worth living.
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