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  • READy: Renewable Energy Action on Deployment

    policies for accelerated deployment of renewable energy

    by IEA-RETD, Rolf de Vos, Janet Sawin ...
    Are you developing strategies for a future sustainable energy supply? Are you designing policies to deploy renewable energy technologies in your country? Are you looking for new tools and measures to make your policies more effective? Are you planning to make decisions on renewable energy investments in certain countries and are you checking their policy robustness? Let the IEA guide you into ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment

    by Jan Kleissl ...
    Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment is a vital text for solar energy professionals, addressing a critical gap in the core literature of the field. As major barriers to solar energy implementation, such as materials cost and low conversion efficiency, continue to fall, issues of intermittency and reliability have come to the fore. Scrutiny from solar project developers and their ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Spain’s Photovoltaic Revolution

    The Energy Return on Investment

    by Pedro A. Prieto, Charles A. S. Hall ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI or EROEI) is the amount of energy acquired from a particular energy source divided by the energy expended, or invested, in obtaining that energy. EROI is an essential and seemingly simple measure of the usable energy or “energy profit” from the exploitation of an energy source, but it is not so easy to determine all of the energy expenditures that should ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Developing the Global Bioeconomy

    Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy

    Edited by Patrick Lamers, Erin Searcy, J. Richard Hess, Heinz Stichnothe ...
    Developing the Global Bioeconomy: Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy brings together expertise from three IEA-Bioenergy subtasks on pyrolysis, international trade, and biorefineries to review the bioenergy sector and draw useful lessons for the full deployment of the bioeconomy. Despite the vast amount of politically driven strategies, there is little understanding on how ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Preparing for Peak Oil in South Africa

    An Integrated Case Study

    by Jeremy J. Wakeford ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Oil is the lifeblood of modern industrial economies. Petroleum powers virtually all motorized transport, which in turn enables most economic activities and provides mobility for citizens. But oil is a finite resource that is steadily depleting. In the past decade, the phenomenon of global peak oil – the fact that annual world oil production must at some point reach a maximum and then decline – has ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Energy In The 21st Century (4th Edition)

    by John R Fanchi, Christopher J Fanchi ...
    Energy in the 21st Century is a valuable source of information for students, decision makers, opinion leaders, and the general public. Oil and natural gas price volatility continue to affect both the supply and demand for energy. Advances in other technologies, such as nuclear, wind, solar, and tidal technology, are altering the comparative economics of competing energy sources. New government ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Energy

    Diagrams, Charts, and Tables

    by Cutler J. Cleveland, Christopher G. Morris ...
    Handbook of Energy, Volume I: Diagrams, Charts, and Tables provides comprehensive, organized coverage on all phases of energy and its role in society, including its social, economic, political, historical, and environmental aspects. While there is a wealth of information about energy available, it is spread across many books, journals, and websites and it tends to target either a particular form ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

  • The Sustainability of Renewable Energy in Europe

    by Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Silvia Micheli ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book demonstrates that the much-needed global shift in energy production and use must happen at a territorial level in order to be truly successful and sustainable. This book enables regional implementation efforts by connecting broad EU environmental policies with plans for action at the territorial level, analysing efficient resource allocation and cost effectiveness to achieve national ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector

    Edited by Daniel Sperling, James S. Cannon ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    More than 250 experts from around the world gathered at the Asilomar Transportation and Energy Conference in August 2007 to tackle what many agree is the greatest environmental challenge the world faces: climate change. This 11th Biennial Conference, organized under the auspices of the Energy and Alternative Fuels Committees of the U.S. Transportation Research Board, examined key climate change ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Thermal Solar Desalination

    Methods and Systems

    by Vassilis Belessiotis, Soteris Kalogirou, Emmy Delyannis ...
    Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems presents numerous thermal seawater desalination technologies varying from the very simple, easy to construct and operate solar stills, to the more advance membrane and indirect distillation methods. All types of solar thermal desalination technologies are presented in detail to enable readers to comprehend the subject, from design details to enabling ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • Smart Grids

    Opportunities, Developments, and Trends

    Edited by A B M Shawkat Ali ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    A Smart Grid delivers renewable energy as a main source of electricity from producers to consumers using two-way monitoring through Smart Meter technology that can remotely control consumer electricity use. This can help to storage excess energy; reduce costs, increase reliability and transparency, and make processes more efficiently. Smart Grids: Opportunities, Developments, and Trends discusses ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The National Clean Energy Fund of India

    A Framework for Promoting Effective Utilization

    by Rita Pandey, Sanjay Bali, Nandita Mongia ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), announced in the Government of India’s Budget 2010-11, is seen as a major step in India's quest for energy security and reducing the carbon intensity of energy. Funding research and innovative projects in clean energy technologies, and harnessing renewable energy sources to reduce dependence on fossil fuels constitute the objectives of the NCEF. The NCEF’s ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD