Abstract
Renewable energy is energy derived from resources that are regenerative or for all practical purposes can not be depleted. Renewable energy sources contribute approximately 29.3% of human energy use worldwide. Mankind' s traditional uses of wind, water, and solar power are widespread in developed and developing countries; but the mass production of electricity using renewable energy sources has become more commonplace only recently, reflecting the major threats of climate change due to pollution, exhaustion of fossil fuels, and the environmental, social and political risks of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
Aruvian Research' s report on Investment in Renewable Technologies Worldwide brings you a complete analysis of the renewables industry, focusing on the various types of renewable technologies available today, the economics of each, challenges and barriers to the growth of each technology, research and development scenario in renewable energies, lifecycle analyses, among others. With the world realizing the potential of renewable energies, this report serves as the complete intelligence on this industry.
Table of Contents
A. Executive Summary
B. Introduction to the Energy Crisis
- Effect on Economy
- Historical Crises
- Future and Alternative Sources of Energy
C. The Investment Case for Renewable Power
D. Introduction to Hydropower
- What is Hydropower?
- Historical Background
- Hydro Dams
- Hydropower Plants
- How a Hydropower Plant Works
- Heat & Flow
- Storing Energy
- Pumped Storage Systems
- Hydropower Production
- Hydropower for Baseload Power
- Economics of Hydropower
- Hydropower & the Environment
- Other Hydro Resources
- Tidal Energy
- Wave Energy
- OTEC
- The Biological Cost of Hydropower
E. Wind Power
- Overview of Wind Energy
- Wind in the Energy Market
- Economics of Wind Energy
- Financing Alternatives for Wind Power
- Business Drivers for Wind Power
- Challenges & Barriers to Growth
- Market Trends
F. Biomass
- What is Biomass?
- Biomass Use in the Developing World
- Technical Aspects
- Combustion Theory
- Technologies Involved
- Charcoal Production
- Briquetting
- Animal Waste
- Commercial Utilization of Biomass
- Issues & Challenges
- Biomass Energy: Cost and Scale Issues - A Graphical Representation
G. Solar Power
- Introduction to Solar Power
- Solar Power & the Consumer Energy Market
- Industry & Growth
- Shortage of Solar Silicon
- Solar Technology
- Solar Markets: Industrialized Countries and Government Incentives
- Solar Markets: Electrification of Developing Countries
- What Investors Should Know About Solar
H. R&D Needs for Renewable Energy Technology in Industrialized Countries
I. Environmental Externalities, Market Distortions & the Economics of Renewable Energy
- Technologies
- Introduction
- Externalities
- Definition
- Externality Adders
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Defining Product Cycle' s Boundaries
- Identifying Environmental Emissions & Resulting Physical Impacts on Receptor Areas
- Cost of Damage/Cost of Abatement?
- Quantifying Physical Damage in Monetary Terms
- Costs of Electricity Generating Technologies
- Assessing the Externalities of Power Generation
- Pollution Damage from Emissions Other than CO2
- External Damage Costs of Emissions of CO2
- External Damage Costs for Electricity Production
- Uncertainty and the Marginal Costs of CO2 Emissions
- Internalizing the Externalities of Electricity Production
- Internalizing Externalities
- Policy Options for "Internalizing" Externalities
- Conclusion
