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Wind power politics and policy /
The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum. On the one hand, as the most commercially viable form of utility-scale renewable energy, the wind power industry has experienced in excess of ten-fold growth in total installed capacity over the past decade. On the other hand, installed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Wind Power Politics and Policy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Global Imperative; 1.1 The Global Imperative; 1.2 Energy and the Global Imperative; 1.3 Electricity and the Global Imperative; 1.3.1 Electricity Generation Technologies; 1.3.2 The Dynamics of Electricity Prices; 1.4 Energy Market Change and Industrialized Nations; 1.4.1 Convergence and Alternative Energy; 1.4.2 The Need for Speed; 1.5 Energy Market Change and Developing Nations; 1.5.1 Economic Considerations; 1.5.2 Economic Security Considerations; 1.5.3 Economic Empowerment.
- 1.5.4 Social Considerations1.5.5 The Need for Speed; 1.6 When Forces for Speed Meet the Need For Speed; 1.7 The Dichotomy of Alternative Energy; 1.8 Objectives and Outline of This Book; 2 Understanding Wind Power Systems; 2.1 The Importance of Understanding Wind Power Systems; 2.2 Features of Wind Power Systems; 2.2.1 Main Components of a Wind System; 2.2.2 Innovation and Cost; 2.2.3 Delivering Wind Power to the Grid; 2.3 Wind Power Management Challenges; 2.3.1 The Challenge of Matching Supply and Demand; 2.3.2 Stochastic Flows; 2.4 Environmental Concerns and Realities.
- 2.5 Impairment of Existing Community Endowments2.5.1 Separating Perception from Fact; 2.5.2 Perceptions Improve; 2.5.3 Aesthetic Concerns Overshadow All Others; 2.5.4 Beyond NIMBY Opposition; 2.5.5 Overall Lessons in Regard to Community Opposition; 2.5.6 Government Agency Opposition; 2.6 Impairment of Existing Ecosystems; 2.6.1 Bird Mortality; 2.6.2 The Challenge of Estimating Bird Mortality; 2.6.3 Degradation of Animal Habitat; 2.6.4 Offshore Wind Farms and Ecological Concerns; 2.6.5 The Importance of Environmental Impact Assessments; 2.6.6 Aesthetics; 2.7 Conclusion; 3 The Policy SET Model.
- 3.1 The Value of a Common Analytical Framework3.2 The Seamless Web; 3.3 Complex Adaptive Market Theory in Wind Power Market Analysis; 3.4 Step Analysis; 3.5 The Political SET Model; 3.6 The Political SET Model and the Case Studies; 3.7 Tying Theory to the Political SET Model; 4 Wind Power in Denmark; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 An Overview of Electricity Generation in Denmark; 4.3 History of Wind Power Development in Denmark; 4.4 Understanding the General Forces for Change; 4.4.1 Sociocultural Landscape; 4.4.2 Economic Landscape; 4.4.3 Technological Landscape; 4.5 Influences on Government Policy.
- 4.5.1 Sociocultural ₂!Political4.5.2 Economic ₂!Political; 4.5.3 Technological ₂!Political; 4.6 Political Influences on Policy; 4.6.1 National Political Structure; 4.6.2 Governing Party Ideology; 4.6.3 Fiscal Health; 4.6.4 Policy Regime; 4.7 The Culmination of Influences; 4.8 What to Expect Going Forward; 5 Wind Power in Germany; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 An Overview of Electricity Generation in Germany; 5.3 History of Wind Power Development in Germany; 5.4 Understanding the General Forces for Change; 5.4.1 Sociocultural Landscape; 5.4.2 Economic Landscape; 5.4.3 Technological Landscape.