Renewable Energy Governance - Complexities and Challenges (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

This book focuses on Renewable Energy (RE) governance - the institutions, plans, policies and stakeholders that are involved in RE implementation - and the complexities and challenges associated with this much discussed energy area. Whilst RE technologies have advanced and become cheaper, governance schemes rarely support those technologies in an efficient and cost-effective way. To illustrate the problem, global case-studies delicately demonstrate successes and failures of renewable energy governance. RE here is considered from a number of perspectives: as a regional geopolitical agent, as a tool to meet national RE targets and as a promoter of local development. The book considers daring insights on RE transitions, governmental policies as well as financial tools, such as Feed-in-Tariffs; along with their inefficiencies and costs. This comprehensive probing of RE concludes with a treatment of what we call the "Mega-What" question - who is benefitting the most from RE and how society can get the best deal? After reading this book, the reader will have been in contact with all aspects of RE governance and be closer to the pulse of RE mechanisms. The reader should also be able to contribute more critically to the dialogue about RE rather than just reinforce the well-worn adage that "RE is a good thing to happen".

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Lecture Notes in Energy, 23
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Evanthie Michalena • Jeremy Maxwell Hills
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	397
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4471-5594-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Electrical engineering > Power generation & distribution
LSN:	1-4471-5594-7
Barcode:	9781447155942

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