Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy An Economic Analysis /

Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy is a beyond-the-hype account of the underlying issues that encourage or plague widespread dissemination of renewable energy (RE) technologies.  Renewable energy operates in the real world, and it cannot be assumed that the conventional theories and incentive...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sunderasan, Srinivasan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Green Energy and Technology,
Subjects:
Renewable energy sources.
Environmental economics.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Renewable Energy.
Environmental Economics.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Infant Industry and Incentive Structures
  • 2. Renewable Energy Technology: Market Development, Subsidy Policy and the Enlargement of Choice.- 3. Economic Rents and the Power of Scarcity
  • 4. Revealed Preferences and the Power of Substitutes
  • 5. Mapping Development Policy on to the Life Cycle
  • 6. Accounting for the Environmental Externality
  • 7. Microfinance: Taking RE to the 'Former Poor'
  • 8. Epilogue: Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy.

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