Alternative and renewable energy Books

Book SynopsisThe heart of the contemporary argument on climate change and energy transition focuses on how energy supply should be decarbonized to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.This book proposes an alternative approach.The Age of Fire Is Over: A New Approach to the Energy Transition finds that energy transitions are not driven by supply-side driven transformations but rather by evolutions in demand patterns.Exploring the potential of recently emerged key technologies, The Age of Fire Is Over argues that the so-called Energy Transition has not yet started. In the future, key technologies will significantly transform demand and provide services at a fraction of today's cost or offer new services not yet imagined. To a large extent, energy paradigm shifts are driven by such evolutions, largely inevitable and often unanticipated, because they provide societies with greater benefits: lower costs, more jobs, and rapid adaptation.This book closes with key novel recommendations for government institutions to accelerate the energy transition, which — instead of replicating an approach from the past — should focus on these demand transformations to both advance civilization and mitigate climate change.With Foreword by Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Schneider Electric Chief Executive Officer.Table of ContentsSetting the Debate Right: What Truly Drives Energy Transitions Is Not What We May Think; The Current So-Called Energy Transition Has Not Yet Started; The Upcoming Energy Transition Will Be a Byproduct of Greater Changes at Stake; The "North Star": There is a Stunning Potential to do the Same Things ... Much Better; Are We Too Big to Fail, Or Is It the Opposite?; When We Reconcile with Our Original Beliefs; The Future Will Be Very Different from the Way We Currently Conceive It; Riding the Inevitable: Let's Not Be Disappointed: It Will Mostly Look Like an Imperfect Patchwork of Changes; What Will Matter Now Is to Roll Up Our Sleeves; It's Only the Beginning ... Good News!;

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Book SynopsisRenewable hydrogen produced using solar energy to split water is the energy fuel of the future. Accelerated innovation in both major domains of solar energy (photovoltaics and concentrated solar power) has resulted in the rapid fall of the solar electricity price, opening the route to a number of practical applications using solar H2. New thermochemical water splitting using concentrated solar power (CSP) as well as CSP coupled to electrolysis has the potential to convert and store solar energy into clean hydrogen using a tiny fraction of the world's desert area to meet our present and future global energy needs. Photovoltaics, in turn, has the versatility required for supporting the creation of a distributed energy generation infrastructure in developing countries especially now that the price of PV solar electricity has fallen to unprecedented low levels. In all these cases, solar H2 will be used to store energy and release it on demand either for fuel cells (to power homes and boats) or internal combustion engines and turbines (for powering cars, trucks and in thermoelectric power units). This book on solar hydrogen is unique in its field and is a timely treatment of a hot topic in industry, academic, political and environmental circles. With reference to many examples as well as to new technologies, this accessible book provides insight into a crucial technology for our common future and numerous colour pictures contribute to the book's readability. Written by experts in the field who are engaged at the forefront of research, the book supplies readers with last minute insight from the frontiers of research. The book will be of interest to Politicians, solar PV companies, hydrogen and sustainability researchers, environmentalists, managers in the automotive and nautical industries, undergraduate and graduate students in physics, chemistry, energy and materials science.Table of ContentsThe Energy Problem; Hydrogen and Solar Hydrogen Basic; Water Electrolysis with Solar Electricity; Thermochemical Water Splitting; Helionomics: Solar Hydrogen Economy

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Book SynopsisThe development of the carbon markets on the back of laws designed to mitigate climate change has been swift. Billions of euros of emission rights are now being traded around the world under cap and trade markets such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and from projects under the Kyoto Protocol. This market looks set to expand significantly over the next few years, with a number of countries, including the United States and Australia, considered likely to introduce market-based climate change mitigation measures. In addition, climate change issues are now impacting on a number of other more traditional practice areas for lawyers, including litigation, transactional work and real estate. Featuring a Preface by HRH The Prince of Wales, this important title introduces climate change law and describes how it has evolved. The book describes how carbon projects - particularly those under the Kyoto Protocol - are set up and operated, and how the credits from those projects are brought to the market. It also describes the operation of the carbon markets, with an exploration of how the current markets may be expanded to create a global market in the future. The final part considers how climate change issues are impacting on other areas such as accountancy and taxation, corporate social responsibility, transactions, litigation, competition and real estate. This book provides an in-depth overview of the current climate change issues facing lawyers and other professionals, including accountants, consultants, bankers and tax advisers. It provides a valuable source of information for those new to this fast-evolving sector through to more experienced climate change professionals.Trade ReviewAnyone who uses this book will gain valuable insight into the mysterious commercial and regulatory alchemy which creates carbon credits and makes them objects of trade. -- Colin T Reid * University of Dundee, Scottish Planning and Environmental Law *A major strength of the book is the way its editor has organized an extremely complex subject into an orderly, reasonable, and manageable format. -- Legal Information Alert Volume 27 8 * Alert Publications, Inc *This is one of the more valuable and up-to-date guides on carbon law yet to emerge and a demand for future revisions can be envisaged. -- Robert Pritchard * International Energy Law Review *Anyone being introduced to climate change law would find it a valuable read, and it is to that extent worthy of a place on the shelf of any climate change legal practitioner. * Trading Carbon *Table of ContentsPreface Foreword A. Introduction History of climate change law and policy Peter D Cameron University of Dundee B. Carbon projects Structuring and financing projects Christopher Carr Vinson & Elkins LLP Flavia Rosembuj World Bank Running a carbon project John McMorris Forest Systems LLC Selling carbon credits Christopher Norton Lovells LLP C. Carbon trading Carbon trading- the view from the floor Seb Walhain Fortis Nature of an allowance Martijn Wilder Baker & McKenzie Market contracts Anju Sanehi Hunton & Williams Creating a global carbon market Anthony Hobley Norton Rose LLP D. Carbon issues for lawyers Accountancy and taxation Iain Calton Helen Devenney Sarah Nolleth Deloitte Corporate social responsibility Angela Delfino Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Mike Wallace Wallace Partners Paul Q Watchman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Corporate transactions John Bowman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Simon Read Pinsent Masons Competition Peter Crowther Lucie Fish Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Carbon regulation in the United States Steven Ferrey Courtney A Queen Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Climate change litigation José Antonio Cofre Nicholas Rock Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Real estate: climate change and buildings in cities Tim Baines John Bowman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Carbon sequestration Juliette Addison John Bowman Paul Q Watchman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP E. Conclusion James A Thompson Paul Q Watchman Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

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Book SynopsisThis title addresses one of the most talked-about sectors of recent times. Undoubtedly, there are political, technical, economic, commercial and legal challenges to meeting global, regional and domestic renewable, carbon and energy-efficiency targets. However, tremendous opportunities are open to those who understand the industry and its drivers. Featuring contributions by thought leaders in their fields from both the public and private sectors, this new book guides readers through key policy matters, broader challenges and future trends, all of which underpin the current and future direction of this sector. There is analysis of issues for financiers, risk identification, allocation and management and project structuring, with in-depth guidance on each. Given the diversity of technologies, specific chapters are dedicated to providing technical, commercial and legal guidance on wind, solar, hydro and embedded generation. Finally, the book considers clean coal technologies and carbon capture and storage which, although not renewable projects, have an important role to play in reducing global emissions and preserving a diversified fuel source mix. This book is aimed at those among the business community who want to understand how this sector will impact on their business, whether they be corporates, project developers, financiers or economists.Trade ReviewThis is a genuinely fascinating read for anyone involved in – or considering entering into – the clean technology and renewable energy industries, either as an operator, investor or advisor. -- Anne McIvor * Cleantech *Overall, this book is an excellent and compelling resource for anyone seeking expertise in the legal and technical issues for renewable energy technologies. -- Helena Wright * European Energy and Environmental Law Review *Table of ContentsPreface 5 Governor Gray Davis 37th governor of California (1999-2003) Foreword 7 Matt Bonass Michael Rudd SNR Denton UK LLP Part 1: Introduction Why renewable energy? 9 Matt Bonass SNR Denton UK LLP Part 2: Regulation and policy Renewable energy: at a growing age 23 Gil Forer Joseph A Muscat Ernst & Young LLP Renewable energy support mechanisms: an overview 31 Katy Hogg Ronan O’Regan PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Part 3: Financing and structuring issues Issues for financiers 49 Nicholas Sinden Siobhan Smyth HSBC Bank plc Risk allocation in renewables projects 71 Tom Eldridge Ike Nwafor SNR Denton UK LLP Structuring the project vehicle 89 Matt Bonass Juliette Seddon SNR Denton UK LLP Part 4: Different types of renewable energy and issues arising from them Wind Onshore wind projects: technical issues 107 David Groves Wind Prospect Group Ltd Onshore wind projects: commercial issues 131 Eric McCartney Chapin International LLC Legal framework for wind projects: a US perspective 143 Gregory Blasi Joshua Hill Jay Matson Loeb & Loeb LLP Increasing local support for wind turbines: a Danish perspective 159 Anne Kirkegaard Jan-Erik Svensson Gorrissen Federspiel Solar Solar energy: technical and commercial issues 171 Serge Younes WSP Environment & Energy Solar energy: legal issues 191 Lucille De Silva SNR Denton UK LLP Small-scale hydropower Small-scale hydropower in Europe: legal issues 205 María José Descalzo Juan I González Ruiz Uría Menéndez Energy efficiency and renewables Energy efficiency: the other side of the coin 225 Gillian Davies Mariya Kuchko Janet Laing Alejandro Saenz-Core Mott Macdonald Limited Combined cooling, heat and power generation: technical, commercial and legal issues 257 Thorsten Mäger Dirk Uwer Hengeler Mueller Embedded generation: a UK perspective 273 Kerry Thompson Inventa Partners Ltd Part 5: A broader perspective Emerging renewable technologies 291 Nicholas Kelly Sindicatum Carbon Capital Group Limited Carbon capture and storage: a path to climate change mitigation 307 Thorsten Mäger Dirk Uwer Hengeler Mueller About the authors 325

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Book SynopsisText in English & German. The challenges facing the 21st century are staggering: rapidly increasing population, mounting social instability due to global imbalances of wealth and welfare, resource scarcity and resulting conflicts related to their exploitation and distribution, and certainly the ongoing distress of the environment as a whole. Such severe conditions, including climate change, continue to become greater in number, complexity, and clarity, even though most of them had already been introduced as areas of concern in the 1970s and 1980s. Part I of the book describes potential strategies that will play an essential role in curbing carbon emissions, reducing -- or replacing -- fossil fuel usage. To better understand the current global energy industry, the book is unique in showing energy consumption data across the globe in comparable units, and it explains how fossil fuels could be replaced by renewable energy resources. Part II explains how the necessary significant reductions in energy consumption can be achieved by alternative means at reasonable cost for power generation to be maintained. A great number of projects are described in the book as case studies that fulfil the variety of international energy codes. Part III addresses the technological possibilities for energy savings and resource-sensitive solutions related to buildings. Here, the potential of building-integrated solar systems, wind-power generation, rain-water harvesting, and the use of geothermal energy, as well as their implementation in the architecture are presented in detail. On the one hand, the book presents the background for a broader understanding of the medium-range and long-range changes in our energy landscape, and on the other it provides the basis for avenues required to enable us to design strategies based on local conditions and individual geographical locations. Over the past 20 years, Klaus Daniels and the engineers of his engineering consultancy HL Technik have published four volumes of seminal work related to this subject, and their work is continuously being updated. In this series, the new book is an attempt to illustrate how modern architecture needs to be adaptive to energy conditions and how design and technology can be blended successfully.Trade Review"...a fantastic reference book with a global perspective of the facts, figures, and statistics required by designers to reduce energy consumption in the built environment and produce climate sensitive buildings." Ecotech November 2009

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Book SynopsisClimate change is no longer deniable. Neither is the fact that greenhouse gas emissions due to human activities need to be mitigated. The question is how to rapidly transit to an increasingly low-carbon world while essentially sustaining the quality of life of the fortunate and providing better lives for the less fortunate.The challenge is to decarbonize both energy consumption and production with electricity at the core of energy systems.Perhaps Energia, a fictitious country whose 50 million inhabitants endorse climate change objectives and that embodies the energy mutations proposed by the authors, has the answers. Along with Energia, four families living in Africa, America, Asia and Europe who represent us, the consumer, set the stage for the book's discussions.On the user front, the presentation primarily focuses on energy consumption at home and for transport. On the energy production front, the focus shifts to the integration of renewables with fossil and nuclear energy. The book's coverage includes crucial systemic issues related to energy storage, electric power systems and multi-energy systems. In a dedicated chapter, the authors put forward their energy and environmental public policy observations and proposals, including a carbon fee scheme.Electricity is written for readers interested and concerned by the environmental and energy challenges we face, and who seek to participate, as well-informed citizens, in discussions on future energy-related options. The book provides a balanced, factual and unemotional presentation of readily available energy systems and technologies which, when widely deployed, can contribute, both short and long term, toward a low-carbon and electricity-centered world.

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Book SynopsisClimate change is no longer deniable. Neither is the fact that greenhouse gas emissions due to human activities need to be mitigated. The question is how to rapidly transit to an increasingly low-carbon world while essentially sustaining the quality of life of the fortunate and providing better lives for the less fortunate.The challenge is to decarbonize both energy consumption and production with electricity at the core of energy systems.Perhaps Energia, a fictitious country whose 50 million inhabitants endorse climate change objectives and that embodies the energy mutations proposed by the authors, has the answers. Along with Energia, four families living in Africa, America, Asia and Europe who represent us, the consumer, set the stage for the book's discussions.On the user front, the presentation primarily focuses on energy consumption at home and for transport. On the energy production front, the focus shifts to the integration of renewables with fossil and nuclear energy. The book's coverage includes crucial systemic issues related to energy storage, electric power systems and multi-energy systems. In a dedicated chapter, the authors put forward their energy and environmental public policy observations and proposals, including a carbon fee scheme.Electricity is written for readers interested and concerned by the environmental and energy challenges we face, and who seek to participate, as well-informed citizens, in discussions on future energy-related options. The book provides a balanced, factual and unemotional presentation of readily available energy systems and technologies which, when widely deployed, can contribute, both short and long term, toward a low-carbon and electricity-centered world.

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Book SynopsisWith the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency and adaptability provide hope for a global sustainable future. At the same time, there are also limits to these transitions, as well as risks involved. For example, on one end of the spectrum, our urban energy future includes land use sprawl, high fossil fuel use, pollution, and unhealthy urban conditions. On the other side of this transition spectrum is more energy choices, and healthier, more livable cities, along with less energy use and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. What the future might hold for transforming the world's cities depends upon an understanding of the risks of current trajectories and the opportunities for and limitations to developing sustainable urban energy systems.This edited volume brings together leading experts on the prospects and challenges of urban energy innovation and on related-economic, social and environmental sustainability transitions. The focus of the volume is on multidisciplinary reviews, research informing technologies and policies for sustainability, and analytical insights addressing rapid urbanization and changes across a diverse typology of global cities. The volume will include an overview of the current state of urban energy systems. It will also document and evaluate urban energy prospects for a sustainable, resilient future.

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Book SynopsisHow can non-windy places make use of wind power for electricity generation? Advanced Wind Turbines provides detailed information that is of great practical importance to wind turbine practitioners from small and congested city-states, where the lack of vast land and high wind speed render the conventional wind turbine less effective. It introduces the non-conventional Darrieus and Savonius wind turbines, as well as their hybrid version, covering basic concepts, computational modelling and recent advances in experimental optimization.What about those who prefer wind turbines in faraway oceans to take advantage of high wind speed, or who come from countries with a lack of shallow seabed? Floating offshore wind turbines are also discussed, and the dynamics of floating vis-à-vis grounded wind turbines are thoroughly expounded upon to aid practitioners in achieving more accurate performance modelling. This is a work of paramount usefulness for areas which have long wanted to jump on the renewable energy bandwagon, but have thus far been hampered by their natural geographical limitations.

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Book SynopsisThis unique compendium provides a fact-based analysis of the most prominent energy issues of our time. It covers the period when the Covid pandemic swept across the world and substantially altered energy production and consumption. It discusses lessons learned following the reopening of economies around the world, and recognizes that we are in the midst of the energy transition. Insights into key energy topics, such as the timing of the energy transition and the need for a reliable energy portfolio for national security, are included.Some highlights of the new edition include discussions of climate change; lessons learned from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; introduction to small-scale, modular nuclear fission reactors; updates on the status of nuclear fusion reactor prototypes; advances in solar power plants and transparent photovoltaic cells; improvements in large-scale wind power; tidal and wave energy converters; oil from algae; the EU Supergrid; the transition to electric vehicles and its impact on demand for oil; and updating the Goldilocks Policy forecast.This textbook can also serve as a useful reference for students, decision makers, opinion leaders and the general public. Previous editions have been used as an introductory energy text for college and MBA students.

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Book SynopsisThis unique compendium provides a fact-based analysis of the most prominent energy issues of our time. It covers the period when the Covid pandemic swept across the world and substantially altered energy production and consumption. It discusses lessons learned following the reopening of economies around the world, and recognizes that we are in the midst of the energy transition. Insights into key energy topics, such as the timing of the energy transition and the need for a reliable energy portfolio for national security, are included.Some highlights of the new edition include discussions of climate change; lessons learned from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; introduction to small-scale, modular nuclear fission reactors; updates on the status of nuclear fusion reactor prototypes; advances in solar power plants and transparent photovoltaic cells; improvements in large-scale wind power; tidal and wave energy converters; oil from algae; the EU Supergrid; the transition to electric vehicles and its impact on demand for oil; and updating the Goldilocks Policy forecast.This textbook can also serve as a useful reference for students, decision makers, opinion leaders and the general public. Previous editions have been used as an introductory energy text for college and MBA students.

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Book SynopsisThe 'Hydrogen Economy' is very broad subject ranging from the potential use of hydrogen for domestic use to the mass production of hydrogen replacing coal, natural gas (LNG) and conventional transport fuels.For any given project, there are many alternatives to consider for each stage of making, storing and transporting hydrogen. The book aims to assist proponents, and financiers of hydrogen projects to identify the optimum alternatives and identify hurdles and approaches to overcome them. This book attempts to describe an optimum approach to implement and its cost. It sets out to identify hurdles to implementation which may not be apparent to those entering the field for the first time.The book covers the various means and costs of production from fossil fuels (with carbon capture) - blue hydrogen - electrolysis - green hydrogen - or biomass. The book covers hydrogen storage as liquid or compressed gas and transport, through pipelines as liquid or by an intermediary fluid such as ammonia or a hydrocarbon. The book also discusses the production and costs of hydrogen delivery at the user end of a logistics chain. It also compares the relative energy value of energy delivered hydrogen versus the current suite of conventional fuels.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed coverage of how the circular economy aims to change the paradigm in relation to the linear economy, by limiting the environmental impact and waste of resources, as well as increasing efficiency at all stages of the product economy. It serves as the sole comprehensive overview of the role of biofuels in the circular economy. It contains updated information on the latest trends of techno-economic analysis of biofuels, economic transitions, low-carbon economies, green circular societies, and life cycle assessment of biofuels. This book delves deep into the economic security of the poor as well as the nexus between biofuel industry and global trade bodies, making it one of the few introductory books without bias toward the contribution of biofuels in circular economy. With its diverse contributions on themes such as biofuels as potential alternatives to fossil fuels, biofuel economics and policies; biofuel standards, blending, and future insecurities; economic transitions from biomass to biofuels; and biofuel economy, development, and food security, the book would be a great resource for a wide and multi-disciplinary readership base ranging from researchers to academics, policy makers, innovators, corporates, and non-profit organizations working in this area.Table of ContentsThemes of the volume:Biofuels: Potential Alternatives to Fossil Fuels.- Biofuel Economics and Policy: Biofuel Standard, Blending, and Future Insecurities.- Economic Transitions: from Biomass to Biofuels.- Biofuel Economy, Development, and Food Security.

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