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Knowledge Is Power: Securing Transparency In Britain`s Liberalised Energy Market

To help alleviate the crisis of confidence in Britain’s liberalised energy market, Knowledge is power sets out a number of options to improve transparency for consumers and the market. As we enter an age of increasingly expensive energy, better consumer information is essential if we are to secure public ...

By Policy Exchange

renewables - Made in Germany

Information about German renewable energy Industries, companies and ...

By e.terras AG

Energy Venture Capital Best Practices (Inside the Minds)

This product provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on the ins and outs of energy venture capital. It provides information for both entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, offering proven strategies for valuing a company, raising capital, and working with management teams. It also discusses why the ...

By Thomson Reuters (Westlaw)

Renewable Energy

The three volumes VIII/3A, B, C of Energy Technologies should primarily serve scientists, engineers, and students to gain information on physical, chemical, and technical properties of all technologies to provide, convert, distribute, store, and finally use energy. They are supplemented with economic ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Research and Development (R&D) in Solar PV Technology

The report – Research and Development (R&D) in Solar PV Technology – focuses on the recent and near future developments in the R&D of PV technology. Report presents a brief overview of the global energy market, potential of the renewable and solar energy and detailed information on the solar PV technology – ...

By Synergyst

Introduction to Renewable Energy, Second Edition

This book integrates economic, social, environmental, policy and engineering issues related to renewable energy. It covers fundamentals, including the transfer of energy, as well as the limitations of natural resources. Starting with solar power, the text illustrates how energy from the sun is transferred and ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences

Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system. It is frequently observed within the natural living world as well as in social institutions. According to the authors, hierarchy results from random processes, follows an intentional design, or is the result of the organisation which ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Wind Energy International – Online Platform

Following the huge demand for up-to-date information on the different aspects of wind energy from all over the world the WWEA has decided to transform its successful biannual yearbook “Wind Energy International” into an online platform that can be updated as soon as new information comes out in any ...

By World Wind Energy Association (WWEA)

Entropy and Entropy Generation

Entropy and entropy generation play essential roles in our understanding of many diverse phenomena ranging from cosmology to biology. Their importance is manifest in areas of immediate practical interest such as the provision of global energy as well as in others of a more fundamental flavour such as the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

The Neutral Upper Atmosphere

After World War II, Professor S.K. Mitra wrote a comprehensive book called The Upper Atmosphere, which dealt with information available from ground-based and balloon-borne experiments. As a result, topics such as day airglow were investigated and further ground-based experiments using incoherent back-scattering ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Methane Gas Hydrate

Gas hydrates are potentially one of the most important energy resources for the future. They represent one of the world’s largest untapped reservoirs of energy and, according to some estimates, have the potential to meet global energy needs for the next thousand years. Methane Gas Hydrate examines this ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Energy Resources in East Africa

East African states have historically shared several resources including energy and common heritage of its people. This book provides information on available sources of energy in the region and how the energy suppliers can exploit them in an integrated form to produce the right blend of energy for ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Hydrogen Fuel: Production, Transport, and Storage

From Methane to Hydrogen—Making the Switch to a Cleaner Fuel Source The world’s overdependence on fossil fuels has created environmental problems, such as air pollution and global warming, as well as political and economic unrest. With water as its only by-product and its availability in all parts of the world, hydrogen promises to be the next great fuel source. All of the Key Aspects of ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Switched On : Renewable Energy Opportunities in the Tourism Industry

This handbook is a guide for tourism businesses to learn what the opportunities and benefits of renewable energy are, what questions to ask suppliers on system configuration and design, and how to select reliable suppliers. It contains information on a wide range of renewable energy technologies that can be ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems

Innovation is key to achieving a sustainable electricity system. New technologies and organizational changes can bring about more sustainable, climate-friendly electricity structures. Yet the dynamics of innovation are complex, and difficult to shape. This book, written by experts in the field, sets out to explore the dynamics, the drivers and the setting of innovation processes. Case studies on ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Energy Efficiency in Wastewater Treatment in North America: A Compendium of Best Practices and Case Studies of Novel Approaches

After manpower, energy is the highest operating cost item for most the wastewater utilities. Over the last decade, the implementation of new technologies to meet new effluent limits and water quality standards has considerably increased energy consumption by the sector. The price of energy has also ...

By IWA Publishing

Handbook of Energy Engineering, Sixth Edition

Covering the latest codes and standards and the Energy Independence and Security Act, this edition includes information on software packages from the Best Practices Program of the U.S. Department of Energy; and emerging technologies such as oxy-fuel combustion, high efficiency burners, enhanced heat ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Virginia Offshore Energy Development Law and Policy Review and Recommendations Report

Virginia is facing various forms of energy development activities offshore and in the territorial waters of the Commonwealth. These include possible proposals for wind and wave energy, liquefied natural gas transport, and natural gas drilling on the outer continental shelf, among others. State laws and policies ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment

technical information for implementing solar energy applications. The book details the ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Management of Weather and Climate Risk in the Energy Industry

Weather and climate information provide important elements in policy/decision making within the energy sector. Weather forecasts are employed routinely in the energy sector – by energy producers through to suppliers, and by financial analysts through to national regulators – to assist in ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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