The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy Pathways to 100% Global Coverage 1st Edition by Winfried Hoffmann ISBN 1118237900 978-1118237908

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ISBN 10:1118237900

ISBN 13:978-1118237908

Author:Winfried Hoffmann

Provides a comprehensive picture of today’s energy world, describes the potential for energy savings that can be achieved, and analyzes the technology developments which will lead to a 100% renewable energy-powered world

The world is at the crossroads of either quickly changing the energy picture towards implementing efficient renewable energy sources or postponing this process by another generation. Based on the author’s more than 30 years’ industrial experience, this book gives a set of assumptions by extrapolating known technology developments and shows that 100% coverage by renewable technology of global energy needs is much more probable than previously argued.

Basic facts using “rule of thumb” and “order-of-magnitude” considerations underpin the author’s argument. The book shows how energy efficiency technologies will be able to drastically reduce the energy consumption for the same quality of life. The most relevant renewable energy technologies are discussed. Solar photovoltaic, solar thermal concentrators, solar thermal wind, as well as biomass and biofuels, hydro, geothermal, wave, and tidal technologies are debated.

The conclusion of this unique book shows how and why the renewable technologies will be cost competitive and even superior to the traditional technologies in the mid-term. Market-pull instead of technology-push provide the increase of the cumulative installed volume of the new renewable technologies, thereby driving down the specific price of the critical components along Price Experience Curves.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
1.1 The Changing World
1.2 Why Another Book on 100% Renewables?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Conclusion: The 100% Renewable Energy Puzzle

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