Agile Energy Systems: Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power, Second Edition, offers new solutions to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies.
The book begins by showing how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California, including major technological changes and commercialization, regulatory needs mismatched to societal adjustments, inadequate and flawed economic models, a lack of vision, goals, and planning that lead to energy failures, and questionable finance and lack of economic development.
The second half of the book examines the civic market paradigm for new economic models and how to plan for complexity using California as an example of how the problem of centralized power systems can be seen in the worst drought that California has ever seen.
1. Introduction - p. xvii 2. Chapter One: The End of the Fossil Fuel Industrial Revolutions: The Case of California in the United States - p. xxii 3. Chapter Two: The Green Industrial Revolution (GIR) Is Here Today - p. 26 4. Chapter Three: The Global Context for Changes in the Energy System - p. 35 5. Chapter Four: Global Changes in Energy Systems: Central Power and On-Site Distributed - p. 60 6. Chapter Five: Developing Nations: Africa, Latin America, and Island Nations - p. 91 7. Chapter Six: Technologies, Changes, and Impacts: From a Vertically Integrated to Dispersed Energy Systems - p. 127 8. Chapter Seven: Agile Energy System: Integrated GIR Technologies Into Infrastructures - p. 155 9. Chapter Eight: The Next Economic Model - p. 171 10. Chapter Nine: Complex Infrastructures: The Role of Government in Planning for Agile Energy Systems - p. 187 11. Chapter Ten: Conclusions: Implementing the Smart Green Development Revolution Through Agile Energy Systems - p. 212 12. Appendix: Agile Energy System Cases: Green Technologies for Distributed On-site Power and Central Grid - p. 229 13. Index - p. 299
Agile Energy Systems: Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power, Second Edition, offers new solutions to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies.
The book begins by showing how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California, including major technological changes and commercialization, regulatory needs mismatched to societal adjustments, inadequate and flawed economic models, a lack of vision, goals, and planning that lead to energy failures, and questionable finance and lack of economic development.
The second half of the book examines the civic market paradigm for new economic models and how to plan for complexity using California as an example of how the problem of centralized power systems can be seen in the worst drought that California has ever seen.
1. Introduction - p. xvii 2. Chapter One: The End of the Fossil Fuel Industrial Revolutions: The Case of California in the United States - p. xxii 3. Chapter Two: The Green Industrial Revolution (GIR) Is Here Today - p. 26 4. Chapter Three: The Global Context for Changes in the Energy System - p. 35 5. Chapter Four: Global Changes in Energy Systems: Central Power and On-Site Distributed - p. 60 6. Chapter Five: Developing Nations: Africa, Latin America, and Island Nations - p. 91 7. Chapter Six: Technologies, Changes, and Impacts: From a Vertically Integrated to Dispersed Energy Systems - p. 127 8. Chapter Seven: Agile Energy System: Integrated GIR Technologies Into Infrastructures - p. 155 9. Chapter Eight: The Next Economic Model - p. 171 10. Chapter Nine: Complex Infrastructures: The Role of Government in Planning for Agile Energy Systems - p. 187 11. Chapter Ten: Conclusions: Implementing the Smart Green Development Revolution Through Agile Energy Systems - p. 212 12. Appendix: Agile Energy System Cases: Green Technologies for Distributed On-site Power and Central Grid - p. 229 13. Index - p. 299
