Description
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.
- Offers new approaches to energy systems, providing the tools and plans to achieve these objectives
- Presents specific and actionable public policy and program tools
- Illustrates how lessons learned from California can be used to create an agile energy system for any country
Chapter
Chapter 1: The End of the Fossil Fuel Industrial Revolutions: The Case of California in the United States
The Vertically Integrated Utility
Nuclear Power Energy Plants
Revised Electricity Demand Estimates
PURPA History and Contracts
Conservation and Efficiency
The Emergence of the Transition Phase
The Political Economic Tensions That Led to California's Energy Crisis
Self-Generation and Nonutility Supplier Pressure From Large Consumers
Nuclear Plant Issues: Diablo Canyon
Dispersed System Solutions Abandoned
End of Out-of-State Energy Surplus by 2000
The US Energy Crisis at the Turn of the 21st Century
Sustainability is the Future to Stop a California Electrical Crisis
Conclusion and Lessons From California
Chapter 2: The Green Industrial Revolution (GIR) Is Here Today
Chapter 3: The Global Context for Changes in the Energy System
Perspectives on Energy System Changes
On-Site Distributed Power and Liberalization
Consolidation and Global Electric Companies
Competitiveness in the Energy System
The Transmission System in a Competitive System
Sustainable Technologies and Environmental Issues
Energy Corporate—Civic Governance
Policies and Economics for the Future of Agile Energy Systems
Chapter 4: Global Changes in Energy Systems: Central Power and On-Site Distributed
Regional and Nation-State Experiences
Overview of European Electricity System
Northern European Grid System
Decentralization and Operation of the Energy System
Danish Biomass Development
The Electricity Sector for Renewable Energy
Nuclear Energy in Germany
CHP Utilization/German Heating/Renewable Heating Sector
German Electricity Market
Summary of Nordic Countries (Denmark) and Germany
Chapter 5: Developing Nations: Africa, Latin America, and Island Nations
Electrification of Africa
Electrification in Chile: A Success Story
Electrification in Brazil
Electrification of Island Nations
Electrification in the Philippines
Electrification in Indonesia
Chapter 6: Technologies, Changes, and Impacts: From a Vertically Integrated to Dispersed Energy Systems
Theoretical Underpinnings of Dispersed Systems
Concentrated or Central Grid Energy System Challenge
Transitions in Key Technologies Created Alternatives to the Old Model
Large and Centralized Generators and Utilities Became Less Competitive
Renewable and "Alternative" Technologies Became Cost Competitive
The Old Utility Model Was Unable to Deal With Externalities Such as Nuclear Waste, Air Pollution, or Global Warming
Diversification—The Uneven Commitment to Diverse Supply
Shaping Demand and Flexibility in Meeting Supply; Integrated Planning and Demand-Side Management
Transmission Issues: Grid Expanded to Include Wheeling
Chapter 7: Agile Energy System: Integrated GIR Technologies Into Infrastructures
Integrated Hybrid for Infrastructure Systems
Chapter 8: The Next Economic Model
Economic Models and Premises of Restructuring
Neoclassical Premises and Assumptions
Conclusion: The failure of Neoclassical Economics in Energy Planning in Complex Systems
Chapter 9: Complex Infrastructures: The Role of Government in Planning for Agile Energy Systems
Planning for Uncertainty and Risk Aversion
Meeting the Energy Infrastructure Challenge
Role of Government in Planning
Short Term Energy Trends and Issues
Long-Term Plans: Renewable Portfolio Standards
Framework for Energy Infrastructure Planning
Case Study: On-site Distributed Renewable Energy Systems
Return on Investment Public Finance Model: The Potential for Renewable and On-site Power
Proposed Strategies for State Government
Technology Transfer and Commercialization
Planning and Implementation
Chapter 10: Conclusions: Implementing the Smart Green Development Revolution Through Agile Energy Systems
The Transition in Energy From Chaos to What Works
The Challenge of the Localization Model
Toward Worldwide Agile Energy Infrastructure Systems
Civic and Social Benefits
Economic Development Benefits
Toward an Agile Energy System
Appendix: Agile Energy System Cases: Green Technologies for Distributed On-site Power and Central Grid
Global Energy Technologies Today
Smart Green Technologies: Integrated "Agile" Energy Infrastructures
Fuel Cell Technologies—Status and Future—for Vehicles and Buildings
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (HFCEV)
The Economics for Smart Green Cities and Communities
Smart Green Communities: The Case of a City: Berlin
California State Renewable Investment Plan
The Green (Renewable Sources for) Hydrogen Paradigm
Fuel Cell for Energy Storage
Hybrid Energy Technologies
Consider the Case of Zinc Air and Iodine-Sulfur (IS) Fuel Cells
Zero Emission Cars: The Cases of H2, Electric and Solar Cars
Agile Energy Systems—Infrastructures
Integrated Hybrid for Infrastructure Systems
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