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Renewable energy is a fast expanding field, welcomed by many as part of the answer to climate change and energy security concerns; but can renewables deliver? This book reviews the basic technological options and global implementation, so as to convey the sense of excitement that abounds in this new area of technological development, but it also looks at the problems, including technological, policy issues, local environmental impacts and the need to deal with the variability of some renewable energy sources.
1.1 Why renewable energy?
1.2. Which sources are emerging?
1.3. What are the problems?
1.4 The structure of this book
2. Power
2.1 Hydro
2.2 Wind power
2.3 Wave power
2.4 Tidal power
2.5 Power in perspective
3. Heat
3.1 Bioenergy
3.2 Solar heat
3.3 Geothermal heat and power
3.4 Heat pumps and CHP
4. Light
4.1 PV solar
4.2 Beyond PV–PE, thermo-electric and photochemical systems
4.3 One world under the sun: a global grid?
5. Integration
5.1 Dealing with variability
5.2 Grid balancing – beyond electricity
5.3 Energy storage
5.4 A balanced future
5.6 Energy conservation and energy efficiency
5.7 A sustainable energy future: costs and policy choices
6. Policy
6.1 Europe
6.2 Asia and the Pacific Area
6.3 The Americas
6.4 Africa
6.5 What next: the issues of cost and scale
6.6 Conclusions
7. Afterword