Renewable fuels such as wind solar biomass tides and geothermal are inexhaustible indigenous and often free. However capturing them and transforming them into electricity hydrogen or clean transporation fuels often is not. Green Energy: Technology Economics and Policy addresses how to approach and apply technology economics and policy to bring down the costs involved with renewables the most important challenge faced in the green era. Intended for students and professionals in resources energy and environmental engineering and in economic fields focusing on green energy. It explores the ways and means of using technology economics and policy to address R & D issues market penetration improved efficiency investment capital policy changes and more. It elucidates Green New Deal models in which the twin objectives of job generation and mitigation of climate change impacts are achieved through the harnessing of the transformative power of technology. The book links energy science and technology with energy economics markets policy and planning. It describes how this can be accomplished through public – private partnership in the prosecution of Innovation Chain (Basic Research - Applied Research & Development - Demonstration - Deployment - Commercialization). |Green Energy Technology Economics and Policy | Balkema Reference Books
